by Patrick Lencioni | Jan 27, 2017 | Point of View
Evangelization and Discipleship in the “Workplace” No, this short essay is not about bringing Jesus to the secular world, as crucial as that is. What I’m thinking about is the workplace that we call a parish. If parishes are ever going to teach people how...
by Patrick Lencioni | Nov 18, 2016 | Point of View
Something remarkably simple happened recently, and I want to share it with every parish in the world. I was at a convocation of priests recently where a handful of pastors who had attended The Amazing Parish conference presented to their peers many of the practices...
by Patrick Lencioni | Oct 6, 2016 | Point of View
A friend of mine who works in a parish recently asked me to help him assess how well his parish was doing in regard to what it learned during the Amazing Parish Conference. I responded by asking him a series of questions which provides something of a self-assessment...
by Patrick Lencioni | Jun 30, 2016 | Point of View
I was out of town a few weekends ago at one of those youth sports extravaganzas in Reno, Nevada. Between games, my son and I found a Catholic Church and went to Mass. Now, I like to go to parishes that I’ve never visited, or even heard of, because it gives me a sense...
by Patrick Lencioni | May 10, 2016 | Point of View
In the process of helping pastors and their teams try to build amazing parishes, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a real problem in the Church that isn’t being properly addressed. It seems to be a somewhat sensitive issue, one that is easy to avoid, but it...
