For any of us that work full time, this is one of those topics that often raises some levels of stress! Who enjoys annual "performance evaluations". For any leader this idea means critique, honesty, compassion, confrontation, and often discomfort. It should also mean encouragement and affirmation, but as humans we often remember the areas that need improvement over areas that are affirmed and rewarded. Evaluation is a topic in every classroom, business, government, and organization. There is a constant need for assessing whether the work we are doing is achieving the desired results. In classrooms we often take tests. In businesses we look at the bottom line. In government leaders wat

In Matt 10 and Luke 10 we find powerful stories of Jesus engaging his followers with a specific task that has a multiplying effect of his ministry in many towns and villages of Israel. We summarize this task and the instruction around it as the Person of Peace. Sometimes people say “finding the Person or House of Peace” other times I have heard it called “Person of Peace searches”. Either way, Jesus teaches his disciples to go into a village and look for a person that will welcome them. When they find this person who will welcome them as strangers he basically tells his disciples to stay there and minister to and through that family. These families then partner with the disciple to advan

Jesus said, "All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. Lo I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matt 28:18-20)" Amazingly Jesus does not say, "build structures and institutions that are worthy to bear my name." He does not say, "Go and convert the nations to a new religious order formed around my life." HE does not say, "Go and teach the nations to give time and money in order to secure eternal salvation." NO He simply commanded his disciples to make disciples who can make discip