I’ve addressed the Uncle Rico Syndrome and the Kelvin Syndrome this week. There is one other related syndrome that should be avoided: Your Best History Tomorrow. Your Best History Tomorrow is similar to Uncle Rico but sees no fault in the past. The past was the best. Those were the […]
Strategy
You want people who can travel without GPS. You need people who can answer questions that Google can’t answer (e.g., What do we do in this situation?). Remember, you can’t Google your strategy. You need a team that figures out what to do. You don’t want one that slavishly listens […]
An Issachar Value You Need
We make new year’s resolutions. But what about making resolutions on February 12 or August 4? Everyone joins the gym the first week of January. Why not the second week of March? Others eat black-eyed peas on January 1, believing they will have good luck throughout the year. There is […]
No Magic with January 1
Utica, New York. That’s not a city that has a cool ring to it. Tell people you are going to Utica and watch the look on their faces. Why would anyone want to make disciples and plant churches there? Two reasons: unreached people groups and least-reached area. The world is […]
Surprise! Go to Utica
I recently wrote a post on the importance of doing our homework on upgs living in our neighborhoods. A failure to do this research is poor stewardship. Such omissions often mean we end up pouring more resources and people into reaching reached people groups. In this post, I want to […]
Knowing Utah: Another Excellent Example
“When we were planting our church, we did 1000 things wrong. I don’t have time to tell you about those, so I’m going to tell you what did work!” “Reaching this people group has been a blessing, but very difficult. We made many mistakes, but you are here to hear […]