I am fortunate to be releasing this month, How To Make Your Net  Work.  This networking resource contains eleven strategic steps to tying relational knots for global impact.  Over the last 15 years, I have studied and applied networking throughout the body of Christ.  After developing and deploying the Billion Soul Network, I believed it was time to outline carefully the eleven steps required to tying relational knots for global impact.  Once you have read this book, your worldview will never be the same! From reading How to Make Your Net Work, you will learn: How to turn your personal mission into a powerful movement. How to begin with the end in mind…

When building a network, it is important to have a balanced approach between management and leadership. It is not that one is exclusive to the other. Both dimensions are required to birth, build and broaden a vital, sustainable network. The following is for your consideration: The manager administers; the leader innovates. · The manager is a copy; the leader is an original. · The manager maintains; the leader develops. · The manager focuses on systems and structures; the leader focuses on people. · The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust. · The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range view. · The manager asks how…

Here are two principles to ponder and practice for networking in the global Church.  First, we have to mend out nets.  From time to time, we have to make time to renew ourselves and to reconnect with key people in our lives.  Second, we have to measure our nets.  In other words, we need to examine the motives of our hearts.  The best measurement I have found is made up two rails on the same track of live.  While one rail is measured according to the fulfillment of the Great Commission, the other rail is measured according to giving account of our lives before the Lord. Peter Mortlock often inspires…

“I believe networkers are some of the most creative people on the planet.  They see ahead of time what kind of net they are tying together.  Even though it may not make sense to other around them; they know exactly what they are doing and the relational ropes come together to form powerful partnership knots.  Be sure to learn how to tie as many different kinds of knots as possible so you can maximize more situations than you have ever imagined so far. From time to time, I sit quietly reflecting over the friends and colleagues the Lord has placed in my life.  Then, I earnestly pray that the Lord…

We should choose to move from centeredness to the center. Great networkers learn how to mobilize and minister in the middle. They learn how to articulate vision from the middle. We need to learn how to lead from the middle, connect from the middle and develop a circumference of our life. In recent years there’s been much written as it relates to leading from the middle, the three-sixty leader, and so on. My goal for this blog entry is to simply challenge us as networkers to develop a circumference of our lives, to see ourselves in the middle of that circle, and understanding that people are encircled all around us….

Are there limits to synergy?  Can a leader or a networker  hit the synergistic ceiling?  Recently I saw a book entitled, “Turning Your  Contacts Into Connections.”  This is not the essence of energy.  Yes,  contacts and connections are important; but this alone does not develop synergy  between people or organizations.  Over the years, I have come to the  conclusion, when a focused foundation is laid, one can build a synergistic  skyscraper.  Let me explain. Just as one plus one does not always equal two, one plus one  plus one does not always equal three.  When you choose to invite another  key person into your “two,” then the compounding begins.  Then,…

When we choose to get on “God’s Path,” we also get “God’s Providence.”  The word, “providence” means “to see ahead of time.”  Our Lord sees ahead of time and leads the right people across our path at “the right time” in order to help fulfill our divine destiny upon the earth.  I have personally witnessed this time and time again from the beginning of the Billion Soul Network ten years ago until now. I challenge you not to allow fear of the unknown and the nay sayers of your circle of friends to stop you from getting on the path, enjoying the Lord’s providence and recieving His provision.  At the…

As leaders, we usually think of and dream of personal goals for our future.  Our personal goals, as we view them, are usually within our reach if just work hard enough.  However, when we become Great Commission Visionaries, we have entered into an arena, where personal goals are not good enough.  Until the last five or six years, I was driven to achieve or fuflill personal goals for life and ministry. When it comes to the Great Commission or to God-sized vision, we need to move from goals to roles if we desire to be reasonably successful.  Let me explain.  I believe one of the biggest differences between big spirited people…

We are living in era where we should be challenged to move from production to reproduction; from activity to accomplishment.  When one strives to network with others, it is critically important to understand networking mathematics.  I contend that “one plus one does not always equal two.”  In the marriage relationship, one plus one can equal 3, 5, 10 or more!  You have just experienced a paradigm shift. During the mid-1990s, I found myself consuming all the reading I could relating to paradigms and synergistic relational methods.  I will always remember like it was yesterday, when the syngeristic light came on for me in a hotel room in Northern Arkansas.  We are…

It is possible to have teamwork and not have a network. But, it is not possible to have a network without teamwork. Let me explain. When two separate teams from two different organization go out into the game of life, their goal is to defeat their opponents. If they don’t win in the game of life, ministry or business, they are known as a “losing team.” In networking, however, the teamwork is not about competing but about completing; not so much about victory as it about vision. The networking leader learns how to build a network of teams who have different roles but the same goal. Our goal is the same as our Lord’s…