DENNIS’ STORY
Dennis Allen was flying fighter jets – his dream job.
A medical problem took all that away. Not wanting to “fly a desk” in the military, it was off to the commercial world.
Dennis is a six-time turnaround CEO, helping Wall-Street backed companies in trouble get back on track.
That work moved Dennis to a lot of cities and involvement in a variety of churches.
But something was weird: Christ followers were experiencing identical kinds of struggles and symptoms across the Country.
Why are so many Christians walking out on their faith – the Nones, Dones, De-converted and Ex-vangelicals?
Why are so many who still claim Christianity acting as if they’re on mute or inert or just not willing to talk about Christ outside their church walls? What’s going on?
Western discipleship has been “hacked” by some very old malware operating out in plain sight. That hack is impacting your friends, your family and your church.
What should we do? There’s a Biblical answer for that! Dennis dives into the heart of the problem in his book and his podcast “The Disciple Dilemma”.
What? When?
How? Who?
Christian Leaders: Stop Managing – Start Leading
In the Harvard Business School book “Competing for the Future” Gary Hamel & CK Pralahad assert that mature organizations tend to have managers rather than leaders at the helm, to the detriment of the organization.
The Upside-Down Normal: What’s Up With Western Discipleship?
Why did the map float up to the roof and just hang there? It was a dark and moonless night – high over the Atlantic Ocean. I had just finished a series of aggressive turns,
“Different Kinds of Gospel Result In Different Kinds of Discipleship”
Abstract: Due to troublesome symptoms emerging and accelerating in American Protestant and Evangelical communities, this article discusses how does the Gospel and how does discipleship manifest in the American church today? Using Bill Hull’s suggestions
DISCIPLES: WHO, EXACTLY, ARE THE LEADERS?
(You may be a leader if…) This blog is not a shameless attempt to get you to buy a book. But it is a test – a way of helping disciples understand who they really