Prototyping is a great way to experiment and learn about how to best format your products and how consumers will react to them. A business that is a prime example of how prototyping can create great results is Clover Food Lab. Clover Food Lab is now a chain of fifteen restaurants, but in 2008, it…

Dr. Kelley teaches a course at Grove City College called “Leadership.” It goes through loads of information regarding how to properly lead not just a business, but one’s life, family, and ministry. As a part of the class, I had the opportunity to teach (alongside some other peers) about church-size and business dynamics. We unpacked…

In our last class, we had a very interesting discussion about having courage within the church. Professor Sweet and I had a good conversation about what that means and what it actually looks like in today’s church. The first thing that came to mind when courage was brought up was the misconception of courage in…

Vocation is often seen as a big, singular calling. But it is also in everyday small acts of obedience, right where we are. In my Christian Civilization class, we have been exploring the idea of vocation, going beyond pastors or missions. The idea is that vocation is in all that we do and how each…

In the church context we find ourselves in the 21st century, many pastors identify as bi-vocational. A bi-vocational pastor means that pastoring a church is only one of their jobs as they also work in a separate job, outside of their church context. These pastors typically do this out of necessity because the salary that…

After multiply lectures and class discussions regarding church size I found it appropriate to write this last blog post based off of those conversations and further research I did. I found this topic appealing because as a Christian growing up the size of a church is not something that I necessarily thought much about. Then…

I wanted to talk about how the failure of churches can teach us about the failure of business. We learned that there are several ways for a church to be ineffective, from having ineffective leadership, to believing they’re too small, to leaving scripture behind. I think that, in some way, even secular businesses can often…

In a time when the connection is more digital than ever, The Riverside Church in New York City is showing the world how to do ministry differently, authentically, creatively, and accessibly through the digital world. At the heart of this transformation is Rev. Jim Keat, Riverside’s Digital Minister and Director of Online Innovation. But if…

In class, Luke Kimmich made a great point. he states, “it’s tricky because I see so much good from online church, but I also see the harm in it.” Where he is getting at here is the danger between staying at home watching church without having a valid reason. Luke here is describing how so…

In Sales for the Startup, we had a guess speaker, Dan Hudock.  This man is a sales genius.  He walked us through a few different exercises to help us think on our feet and engage in a sales conversation.  First, we had to ask questions to each other, but we could not respond with “I,”…