The Point

I enjoyed taking a few days off!

My wife and I spent a week in Mexico in celebration of our anniversary and thanks to my parents, we did it without the boys, our first trip without them since they’ve both been around!

It was a great time of good food, great weather, and new friends, but I was also reminded of a few things I thought I’d share-

-Regular rest is not just helpful, but necessary if you want to maintain high performance.

-Ideas and Opportunities can be found anywhere and are easiest to spot when you can eliminate distractions.

-Be intentional about spending one on one time with your spouse, its one of the best investments you can make.

So now that I’m ramping back up, look for a flurry of random thoughts in this space over the next few weeks…

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I was inspired to write this after being listed to death. You know how it works, you read a few magazines and blogs, and next thing you know you’ve been bombarded with the lists…

The Largest, Most sites, Most Innovative, Fastest Growing, Most Influential, Most listed…

So I did what anyone who has seen too many lists would do…Made my own list!

These are churches that are doing interesting things and while you may have heard of a few of them, you probably haven’t seen the Sr. Pastor on stage at any recent conferences you’ve paid to attend…

Redeemer Church-Upstate NY www.redeemer.tv –multi campus, multi generational church that just went through a complete re-branding

Lifepoint Church-Cleveland, TN www.lifepointchurch.tv -Plant in small city with hundreds of churches and a couple denominational HQ’s

Crosspointe- Dalton, GA www.cpdalton.com –Long established denominational church that is working hard to push people forward

Without Walls Central, Lakeland, FL www.withoutwallscentral.org -Lots of churches talk about being multi-ethnic, these guys are the real deal

Rock Harbor, Costa Mesa, CA www.rockharbor.org -Big, trendy, great example of team based leadership that isn’t “leader-centric”

12Stone, Duluth, GA www.12stone.com -One of the few churches I’d drive out of my way to tour and visit on a weekend, awesome.

Trinity, Atlanta, GA www.trinityanglicanmission.org -A cool church in midtown Atlanta reaching young people not with flash and video, but with a return to tradition, they recently left the Vineyard to become an Anglican congregation…

I’m sure there are thousands of other churches that deserve to be on someones list…but these are a few unique ones that I’m watching, I’d love to hear about some churches that are finding ways to reach the inner city in places like Detroit, if you know of any that I should stay aware of, let me know.

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