NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—This week, twenty years ago, Every Nation Churches & Ministries serendipitously started in my home when a couple of old friends had a layover in Manila. The date was March 4. The time of day was late, close to midnight. The place was my house...
Last month Deborah and I were in Indonesia, Singapore, and Taiwan teaching Asian pastors, church planters, and missionaries about discipleship and leadership. Same ole boring strokes, again. After our Sunday night session, a young Indonesian leader asked, “how do you...
TAIPEI, TAIWAN—I am sitting in the Taipei airport waiting for my flight back to Manila after a quick weekend visiting Every Nation Taipei and 101 Church. As is often the case when visiting nations in Asia, a visit to Taiwan gives one a heightened sense of the reality...
QUESTION. Are pastors equipping parents to disciple their children, or are they hiring youth pastors and kid’s ministers to do what parents should do? In other words, are we outsourcing discipleship to paid professionals, while inadvertently relegating parents to the...
If you want to lead a healthy church, you need to know that bowls, colanders, and funnels are not interchangeable tools. For those unfamiliar with kitchen utensils, here’s a primer: Basically, a colander is a bowl with many holes, and a funnel is a bowl with one hole....
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—After decades of building my weekly rhythms around small group discipleship in Manila, the past few years splitting time between Nashville, Manila, and Delta airlines have been quite frustrating regarding small group discipleship. With fresh...
