This question is about creating a culture of evangelism in your church. We did not have an evangelistic culture in our church when we started. In fact, after 18 months we didn't see one person come to know Jesus. That was a wake up call for us. Then we started taking steps and eventually the culture of our church changed.  Here's 5 steps we took that changed our culture: Step 1 – Confront Reality (don't sugar coat it. Admit that things are bad and start from there.) Step 2 – Start teaching on evangelism (We did a 4 part series on sharing your … Read More

I get questions about new believer follow up regularly, but today I want to highlight one thing that you must do if you're going to have a successful follow up system for new believers: Get their information. This is a non-negotiable. If you don't collect information, you can't do any follow up.  Also, the chances of that person who just made a decision to follow Jesus falling through the cracks is more likely. There are several ways to collect information and several strategies that I talk about in the New Believer resource for collecting their information and using it to … Read More

– Amazing day at Calvary! A great start to a new week. – We finished our 10 Words series. I taught on the last commandment – coveting.  – I had plenty of illustrations to use in this message 🙂 – I loved teaching through the 10 commandments. You should do it sometime.  – Joel did a great job leading worship – We had both of our campus Pastors on vacation and things went as smooth as can be – Looking forward to teaching through the book of Ephesians starting next week.  – If I haven't said it lately, I believe … Read More

Several things on the horizon this summer that I'm looking forward to… – I just finishing up a new book.  The tentative title is "A Thousand Dirty Buckets:Finding Fulfillment on the Most Unlikely Place". It's a book about servanthood. It's going to be a book in the same vein as my books "Watermark" and "Start Here". My goal is to get God's people out of their seats and serving faithfully. It should be out by early Fall.  – We're starting a new series at Calvary on the book of Ephesians on Father's Day. It's called, "ReThink: Change your Thinking. Change … Read More