Guiding Beliefs

Our guiding beliefs explain the reasoning for everything we do in our work with churches. They create our worldview of church leadership. Every tool we use, engagement we provide, training we offer, and book we write is to help a church (leadership and congregations)  lead and live with these same convictions. Over time, this will create a collaborative movement of prevailing churches and ensure sustained victory as they multiply disciples, leaders, and plant new churches with the same beliefs and equipping.

Mission & Vision

  • God’s mission for the local church is to make more and better disciples which was given to us by Jesus and recorded in Matthew 28:19-20.

  • The mission is static but the vision, which is dynamic, must be held loosely, taken seriously, and refreshed every one to two years because God can do immeasurably more than you hope or imagine.

  • The ongoing vision of “double impact in five years or less” creates healthy tension, stretches us in our planning, and leads to courageous decision making.

  • The vision of each local church is unique because each church is Jesus’ unique creation. 

  • Vision creates healthy tension and a True North from which each church should learn to objectify success and learn to judge progress and impact apart from personal preferences. 

  • It is critical that leaders remain unified when it comes to their common mission, vision and plan which should be built around the next season’s work to reach people for Christ and make disciples.

Church Growth & Strategy

  • The church was meant to grow, and its leaders should be concerned about increasing its kingdom impact - i.e. creating more and better disciples.

  • There are no “silver bullets” that work for every ministry but there are best practices to be learned and used.

  • Jerusalem and Antioch (your local community) are the priority when it comes to Great Commission activation and the ripple effect of impact in Judea, Samaria and beyond comes from a robust plan to advance the mission first at home.

  • The power to grow the church’s impact is in the Gospel, not in our efforts; however, God works with and through us to grow his church.

  • A church should strive for balance in its Great Commission execution and outcomes while prioritizing reaching The One by mobilizing the Ninety-nine in everything it does.

  • Great strategies for Great Commission activation are fueled by prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit and we must pray for wisdom and guidance as we evaluate and plan.

Evangelism & Discipleship

  • We must imbalance our strategies, vision and execution toward The One, or the lost, in order to resist the natural tendency of the Ninety-ninety to become selfish.

  • We must be leaders who are concerned with both grace and truth, and yet we will emphasize grace to create a place where the lost belong, prayerfully come to believe, and then join Jesus on his mission through the local church.

  • A focus on evangelism and reaching the lost is a great way to grow deeply committed, selfless disciples.

  • A church’s Relational Reach Zone (connectedness to lost people), is typically far bigger than it thinks and should create conviction and stretch the vision of the church.

  • Churches should grow primarily through relational evangelism.

  • Since no two individual discipleship pathways are identical, we will focus on the fundamentals of engaging the lost through a relationally mobilized Ninety-nine while giving the lost simple steps to engage in worship, teaching, biblical community, and service.

Stewardship & Resources

  • As leaders, we are stewards of God’s Church during this season and our goal is to pass it to the next generation in the best shape possible.

  • Attention is a new commodity along with time, money and energy and we must use God’s resources, provided by His people, in the best way possible. 

  • Church leadership is typically a zero-sum leadership proposition, so we must seek to spend every dollar and minute as strategically as possible when it comes to the Great Commission. 

Coaching & Training

  • Guided self-discovery is far more powerful than consulting.

  • We will begin with an informed and honest team-based conversation, never with consultant-based evaluations that create distraction and division.

  • We will not create dependency on us, rather, we teach, train and offer resources for a church to fully adopt ChurchOS and become a contributing member of the ChurchOS community.

  • We are better together and having church leaders collaborating and learning from one another from the trenches of ministry is a powerful way for all of us to collaboratively accomplish God’s mission in the world.