Why is it so difficult to delegate? There is a principle in Real Estate called best intended use.  This principle evaluates real estate based on whether it is utilized to achieve it’s maximum value.  There are real estate investors who...

Every year about this time I start the daunting process of distributing our year-end survey to all 66 campus ministry leaders at the University of Texas.  It’s the most difficult thing I do all year, but it results in one...

I feel like blogs are supposed to be light and fluffy and 3 quick points on how to do something better. I don’t write that way. All I can share with you is my real life experience in college ministry...

About two years ago my wife and I were asked to move to Austin to help give leadership to an Epic Movement team there. Epic Movement is the Asian American reaching arm of Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ). Within...

This semester I’ve been writing about how prayer and mission are inseparable.  Sometimes the “prayer people” can look at mission people and think “you’re all about planning and strategizing, but you need to pray so you’re not operating in a...

I’ve been writing this semester on “killing competition” between campus ministries. If you have been in campus ministry very long, you know there is a subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) temptation to compare your ministry with another, even a...

This semester I have been writing about the character traits and skills of effective missional community leaders. I wrote about missional leaders being proactive, hospitable, generous, and available. This week I will write about missional leaders being attentive.  I will reference a great...

“Stand clear of the closing door please…the next station is 14th Street Union Square…Stand clear of the closing door please.” As the robotic voice echo in the halls of the hollow steel chambers of the subway car, people push, shove...

In 1996, religious life at the University of Arkansas was pretty much like it is in many other places in the Bible Belt – lots of Christian groups each doing their own thing without regard for the other groups on...

Developing Missional Christians The Anglican theologian Martin Thornton, writing in the early 20th century, developed a theory of church leadership that he called “a theology of the remnant.” He believed that every church was composed of three tiers of people,...