Eight pillars, one standard: nothing published to fill a schedule, nothing published without a named author, and nothing teaching doctrine without theological review.
A button press is the easiest thing in the world to measure and the least likely thing to mean what the number implies. Here is what we publish instead.
We can put a library in everyone's pocket. We cannot put a mentor there, and the difference between those two facts explains most of what is wrong with digital discipleship.
Most Christian conversation about business starts at generosity. It should start two steps earlier, with whether the thing being sold is worth what is charged for it.
Leadership formation tends to prepare people for the crisis. Most people are not lost in a crisis. They are lost in a series of small, defensible calls that no one will ever review.
The continent that is often described as needing to be reached is already, numerically, one of the centres of Christianity. What it has not been given is the boring infrastructure that lets an institution last.
Organisations keep discovering, after the fact, that the warning signs were visible to several people who each assumed someone else was dealing with it.
Voice of Generations Editorial··6 min read
Church planting, pastoral honour and community liberation
Real honour for the person carrying a congregation and real accountability for the person holding authority are not in tension. Treating them as the same thing harms both.
Voice of Generations Editorial··6 min read
Church planting, pastoral honour and community liberation
Launch dates are set by momentum, funding cycles and the planter's need to begin. Very few are set by readiness, and the gap between those two things is where the damage happens.
Systems change is usually discussed as though the reader were about to redesign something. Almost nobody is. The useful question is what a person with partial authority can actually move.
An organisation can teach almost anything except the willingness to do good work that nobody attributes to you. That has to be practised, and it can be practised on purpose.
Voice of Generations Editorial··6 min read
Church planting, pastoral honour and community liberation
Telling someone in difficulty that they need better discipline is usually both wrong and expensive. Here is what the evidence and the arithmetic suggest instead.
The case for doing the boring accessibility work does not rest on obligation. It rests on the fact that it is the highest-return thing most Christian publishers are not doing.
Voice of Generations Editorial··5 min read
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