Culture is the way we do things around here. If you want to create a discipling culture in your church, there's a matrix that might help you get there.

There are three circles to keep in mind when facilitating small or large groups both in-person or online. The order they come in isn't random and can be the difference between success or failure.

There are four types of interpersonal space. When applied to our work with people, can give us a helpful filter for determining the gaps and where change is needed.

Two questions
1. How well are these four spaces represented in your context?
2. What changes might be needed to support greater engagement and ultimately changed lives?

When you consider the room where you sit, what do you see when you look out the bars? Let these words inspire you to have a perspective that will change everything.

The transitional journey roadmap is a powerful diagram to help tie everything together as you think about dealing with transition. Whether in your own life or with a congregation in transition.

An ingredient I found was lacking after a busy weekend and a full Monday was stillness. Today I found my way down to the stream and to the place where I find the stillness I've learned that I can't live without.

Conflict is something we deal with whether we want to or not. In this video you will hear an essential skill to be a peacemaker and 3 reasons why it's so effective.

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Is your congregational grief and loss model adequate? I asked you that question, not only for those of you dealing with congregations in transition as you come to the season of closure, but because we have a much broader reality going on in our congregations because of what's going on in our culture because of the pandemic. and COVID realities and restrictions. There's been a lot of loss.

There's been a lot of things to be grieved in order for congregations to be able to move forward. What I have to say today might be relevant for a lot of situations. Now, I'm speaking mostly to people who are involved with churches in transition but as you rub shoulders and come in touch with...

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[The following is the transcript of this week’s video. It’s not word for word but a close representation of what Cam said in his video. This transcript is provided for those of you who are unable to watch the video or would prefer to read the message instead of listen to it].

I have a question for you that I'd like you to think about for just for a few minutes.

Is your grief and loss model that you're working with adequate? There's been so many losses this last year. So many people that are dealing with transition, dealing with job loss, financial loss, loss of health. People have lost family members. There's been a great disturbance in the whole church community — going from the way things used to be to whatever the way things might look like in the future.

I want to suggest that your loss model and my loss model, if it looks like this (see image), might be inadequate. This model does have value and can help...

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[The following is the transcript of this week’s video. It’s not word for word but a close representation of what Cam said in his video. This transcript is provided for those of you who are unable to watch the video or would prefer to read the message instead of listen to it].

We are living in a time of transition. And I’m talking not only about the kind a congregation goes through during a pastoral change. As I've talked to people and looked around is that all of us are dealing with transition on multiple levels. We're dealing with it personally. We're dealing it with it in our families. We're dealing with it in our communities, in the congregations we work with with or without pastors.

And as I've wrestled with being a resilient leader — someone who can be there for people and provide guidance, insight, and wisdom, I've been looking for a way to stay strong on the inside so that my outside world can be effective and sustainable.

I have a...