How often do you get a physical? For the past 20+ years, I have gotten one every year. The poking, the prodding, the blood work…you know the drill. There is critical benchmarking done during this annual ritual including comparisons from […]
Does the theology of “storytelling” with a church’s facility apply to multisite campuses and church plants, especially if it is not your “place”? Does it matter that we don’t create a sense of place? Is it worth the mental, emotional, physical […]
Church Facilities as Theology: The building of monumental cathedrals in the middle ages was a reflection of faith and the channel for much of the creative energy of medieval European society. The dominant feeling was one of great enthusiasm, ambition, and […]
A couple weeks ago we were exposed to just what little time we have to make a first impression on a guest; 7 seconds. Not much time to impact the thought and emotional reaction of these guests. Every “touch” point […]
Peter Drucker was a futurist and the guru of all things leadership. He was an amazing leader and author….and if you are too young to remember his works, I would recommend you research his writing. I was recently reading […]
Northside Christian Church – Spring, TX (Phase 2). We just finished our second phase with Northside Christian Church in Spring, TX, a northern suburb of Houston. It’s been an amazing ride with them since beginning our relationship back in […]
Have you ever been at a dinner party, social gathering or the like when you were asked “what business you are in”? How did you respond? Did you tell them what you manufacture or what product you sell or your […]
For the past several weeks, our pastor has been preaching a series on “How we change the way we change.” It has been a great series and I have been challenged by each of the sermons. One in particular I […]
For those of you who have followed my writing (and rants), you know that we have explored the total cost of ownership of a church facility on several occasions. We have seen that the cost of operations of a facility far exceed […]
For years I heard and even preached that you could not define the “cost” of construction because it is a shell game. Have you ever heard someone say, “We will build for 0% profit if you let us define cost”? I actually used to […]
