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Will Mancini emerged from the trenches of local church leadership to found Auxano, a first-of-kind consulting ministry that focuses on vision clarity. As a “clarity evangelist,” Will has served as vision architect for hundreds of churches across the country including the leading churches within Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Non-denominational settings. His clients include notable organizations like Leadership Network and Upward Unlimited and pastors like Chuck Swindoll and Max Lucado. Will’s style blends the best of three worlds: the process thinking from the discipline of engineering, the communications savvy as an ad agency executive, and the practical theology as a pastoral leader. His pastoral experience includes helping lead two different congregations to over 3,000 in weekend attendance in 10 years- Clear Creek Community Church and FaithBridge UMC. Will’s education includes a ThM in Pastoral Leadership from Dallas Theological Seminary and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State. He is the author of Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture and Create Movement, a Leadership Network Publication, and of Building Leaders.
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A couple of weeks ago I enjoyed a back-to-back connections with three very different and very fruitful ministries. On Monday, I was in Chicago with Dave and John Ferguson on the Community Christian Church team. On Tuesday I was with Mountain Lake Church in Atlanta, and on Wednesday I was with Upward Sports in Spartanburg, South Carolina. These ministries demonstrate dramatic success. Dave [...]
Classic wisdom taught us that our mission or purpose statements are timeless. In many ways that’s true and its a helpful teaching concept. And in an ideal world, it works. But in reality, there are times when a leader should change or renew or recreate the sense of mission.So don’t let the classic wisdom freeze you [...]
I have reflected over a decade on the question of how visionaries develop. These are some initial thoughts that I want to share with blog readers as I think out loud a bit. I would really appreciate your comments and input toward the development of these ideas. Stage One: VISION CATCHING Every visionary leaders starts [...]
I recently heard Tim Keller speak on his new book Center Church (more on this in the blog later). The image above is his outline on gospel theology which is about one-eighth of the book. I am halfway through the book and I believe it is the most important book on church leadership written in my lifetime. Here are [...]
How do you discover, develop and deliver the unique vision God has for you? How can you know that you won’t die a carbon copy when God has made you an original? #1 Uncaging vision begins with the vision of God. Finding your unique vision starts by worshipping and listening to the Chief Visionary. Remember that [...]
For years I have dreamed of providing a best of class and totally free book summary service to church leaders. Now its time! And it’s called SUMS. Imagine getting 26 summaries a year absolutely free! What got me thinking about SUMS? I love reading, and I appreciate book summaries like most church leaders. But I wished [...]
Okay, I couldn’t resist calling these “secrets.” Why? Well, they are such as missing practice in ministry today, they functionally behave like secrets. You be the judge: Secret #1: Ask God for supernatural insight into your “ministry best.” He already knows what you can do best because he created you to do it. Every other [...]
Today, I received an e-mail letter from pastor Rick Warren. He has experienced levels of pain requiring him to look into both heart and stroke related possibilities. (Thank God that everything is fine so far.) These issues force anyone to look again at the big picture. What would happen to Saddleback Community Church without Rick [...]
#1 Stop Trying to Prove Yourself There’s nothing wrong with wanting a promotion, but you don’t want to minister with an unsettled spirit that’s always trying to push hard and overdo it. The tone of your action can overshadow the action itself. A secure leader with with lots of responsibility wants to delegate to other [...]
This post is the fifth and final in the Summer Dreamin series. I want to focus now on the tenacious chase of your dreams. How do your really “get-r-done,” when it comes to big life goals. How can you stay focused on the longer horizon but take small but real steps each day? When I [...]
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