clarity evangelist

The Payoff of Carving Out Time for Vision

will mancini — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:41:34 -0600

I ran into this simple but powerful post of 27-year old Sean Chandler. He is a student pastor in Round Rock, Texas that has been thinking about vision lately. Imagine waking up one day to do leadership training and realizing...

Where Vision Begins by Mother Teresa

will mancini — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:09:50 -0600

One of Auxano's navigators, Rich Kannwischer, just sent me this quote from Mother Teresa. We always talk about how unlocking the future is about going deeper with who we already are and what we already have. To understand how much...

Leading with a Mission Statement that Isn't Dumb

will mancini — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:37:48 -0600

How many dumb mission statements do you hear like: Our challenge is to assertively network economically sound methods of empowerment so that we may continually negotiate performance-based infrastructures. If you have been around church at all, you know that we...

Church Jobs of the Future

will mancini — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:41:33 -0600

My daughter and I practiced her spelling bee words as I drove her to school this morning. Abby is a 10-year old. On the drive home, I pondered what Abby might do when she grows up. Every now and again...

40 Top Thoughts on Clarity at 40

will mancini — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:19:13 -0600

A few days before my 40th birthday I was thinking about a quote that has guiding my life for the last 25 years. I read somewhere that I can't remember the idea that in the first half of your life,...

Do You Provide Clear Identity or Glittering Generalities?

will mancini — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:41:00 -0600

I just received a blog post from a leader who is considering working with Auxano. The team is talking a lot about identity and culture in their church and one of the staff sent this post around entitled, "The dirty...

Great Prelaunch Vision Video on Local Predicament

will mancini — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:54:00 -0600

Uncovering your Kingdom Concept is practice along the Vision Pathway to answer the question, "What can your church do better than 10,000 others." In defining this reality for each church we look closely at Place (Local Predicament), People (Collective Potential)...

Top Ten Things Church Hoppers Say

will mancini — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:27:47 -0600

While my mind is on CAVE dwellers from yesterday's post, I thought I would pass on this top ten list I saw on Josh Reich's blog, a young pastor in Tuscon. Below is his post on a book by Bob...

Are CAVE Dwellers Holding Back Your Vision?

will mancini — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:56:47 -0600

C.A.V.E. dwellers are people Consistently Against Virtually Everything and they are alive and well in most churches. In fact a recent study by a Gallop guy named Albert Winseman says that 17% of the average church is made up of...

Deeper, More Challenging and More Inspiring

will mancini — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:57:22 -0500

Max Lucado says that writing a book is like giving birth to barbwire. His words as a prolific author encouraged me through the pangs of writing Church Unique. But as hard as it is to write a book, the hardest...