Will Mancini
Will Mancini | |
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| Born | William Firth Mancini November 5, 1969 |
| Occupation | Church consultant Author |
| Alma mater | Dallas Theological Seminary Penn State University |
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William Firth Mancini[1] (born November 5, 1969[2]) is a consultant, entrepreneur, and author best known for his 2008 book Church Unique.[3][4]
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
In Mancini's youth, his family moved to a new community every few years, following the career moves of his father, a businessman and a pilot in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. Mancini later gave credit to the family's frequent relocations for suiting him for travel and equipping him to engage with a variety of Christian groups as a consultant.[5] Mancini says that he "encountered the gospel for the first time" as a junior high student at a Presbyterian church in Augusta, Georgia under the ministry of John W. P. Oliver.[6] Later, in Mancini's teenage years, the family settled in Chadds Ford in southeastern Pennsylvania and attended The Willowdale Chapel in Kennett Square.[7][8]
Mancini attended Penn State University, where he was heavily shaped by the university's chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ (known today as Cru). After graduating with a degree in chemical engineering, Mancini went to work in the oilfields of West Texas.[9]
Church ministry[edit]
Mancini spent a portion of the 1990s[10] earning a master of theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary[8] as part of a career shift into pastoral ministry. After seminary Mancini joined the staff of non-denominational Clear Creek Community Church in suburban Houston, Texas as its children's minister. Mancini's role evolved as the church grew in numbers, but his career ambitions were dealt a blow when its senior pastor, Bruce Wesley, passed him over for the position of teaching pastor, causing him to rethink his vocational direction.[11]
Mancini later served on the staff of FaithBridge, a United Methodist congregation in Houston.[6]
Consulting and organizations[edit]
In 2001, Mancini left his job at Clear Creek to work for John Manlove Marketing and Communications, a firm that at that time catered to churches. Mancini's role was to help churches get clear on their identity as a precursor to brand development. In 2004 he left Manlove to launch his own consulting firm, Auxano.[6] By 2019, Auxano was serving 400 churches each year.[3] Mancini's clients have included churches led by Chuck Swindoll, Max Lucado,[12] and Randy Frazee.[13]
In 2012, Mancini sold Auxano to Lifeway Christian Resources, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mancini remained onboard as Lifeway's director of consulting.[14]
In 2016, Mancini partnered with Dave Rhodes to launch Younique, a company that offers a "personal calling and life planning process" made available through church congregations.[3][14]
In 2019, Mancini founded his third organization, Denominee, as a consulting firm serving denominations and church networks. That year Mancini began working with eight Southern Baptist state conventions.[3]
In 2020, Mancini left Auxano and Lifeway to join Dave Rhodes and Kelly Kannwischer in cofounding the Future Church Company to be the parent company of Younique and Denominee. He also founded a third subsidiary, Pivvot, for consulting with churches.[15]
Mancini is also a senior leadership advisor for Slingshot Group, a ministry staffing and coaching firm.[16]
Writing[edit]
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Key ideas[edit]
Mancini's published work revolves around "tools" for church leadership. He defines "tool" by extending the meaning of the word from "a handheld device" to "a device or implement to carry out a particular function."[17] He asserts that words are also tools.[18]
Mancini states that he creates his tools to "help organize and refine how you think as a leader first, so that everything you say is clear."[18] He defines "clarity"—a repeated theme in his writings—as "being simple, understandable, and exact. The leader helps others see and understand reality better." He also uses "clarity" as an approximate synonym for "vision," as the term is used in leadership circles.[19]
Another major idea in Mancini's work is the importance of each congregation's uniqueness: "Local churches are unmistakably unique and incomparably different. God doesn't mass-produce His church."[20] Mancini extended the emphasis on uniqueness to the individual in his organization and book Younique.[21]
Master tools[edit]
Among Mancini's tools are "master tools" of special prominence, which serve as the big idea of one or more of his books:[18]
- The Vision Frame (introduced in Church Unique)[22] is composed of the "five irreducible questions of clarity" for an organization, family, or individual:
- The Horizon Storyline (introduced in God Dreams)[23] expands and nuances vision proper by sorting an organization's aspirations into four time-horizons:
- Beyond the horizon (five to 20 years)
- Background horizon (three years)
- Midground horizon (one year)
- Foreground horizon (90 days)
- The Better Discipleship Window (introduced in Innovating Discipleship)[24] is a matrix of four approaches a church can take to redesign its ministry:
- Maximize (same model, same results)
- Adapt (new model, same results)
- Infuse (same model, new results)
- Create (new model, new results)
Seven laws of real church growth[edit]
Mancini called his 2020 book Future Church with Cory Hartman "the prequel to Church Unique and God Dreams."[25] In this work, Mancini introduced seven laws:
- The Law of Mission: "Real church growth starts with a culture of mission, not worship."
- The Law of Power: "Real church growth is powered by the gospel, not relevance."
- The Law of Love: "Real church growth is validated by unity, not numbers."
- The Law of Context: "Real church growth is local, not imported."
- The Law of Development: "Real church growth is about growing people, not managing programs."
- The Law of Leadership: "Real church growth is led by calling, not celebrity."
- The Law of Vision: "Real church growth is energized by shared imagination, not shared preference."[26]
Picturing a church as a two-story house, Mancini maintains that these laws define a church's "Upper Room," where people become attached to "God's unique disciple-making vision for the church," in contrast to the "Lower Room," where people first became attached to the church’s place (building), personality (leaders), people (friends), and programs.[27] A Future Church is one where both rooms are active.[28]
Books[edit]
- Aubrey Malphurs and Will Mancini, Building Leaders: Blueprints for Developing Leadership at Every Level of Your Church (2004)[29]
- Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture and Create Movement (2008)[22]
- Innovating Discipleship: Four Paths to Real Discipleship Results (2013)[24]
- Will Mancini and Warren Bird, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future (2016)[23]
- Clarity Spiral: The Four Break-Thru Practices to Find the One Thing You're Called to Do (2019)[30]
- Younique: Designing the Life God Dreamed for You (with Dave Rhodes and Cory Hartman, 2020)[21]
- Will Mancini and Cory Hartman, Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth (2020)[31]
Family[edit]
Mancini and his wife, Romina (Romy), have one daughter.[6][32] He has three adult children from a previous marriage.[33][34]
References[edit]
- ↑ Mancini, Will (2020). Younique: Designing the Life God Dreamed for You. Nashville: B&H Books. p. 62. ISBN 978-1462766673. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini, Will (2010-11-05). "41 Thoughts on Living with Clarity". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Toalston, Art (2019-08-21). "Sweeping changes ahead for 8 state conventions". Baptist Press. Retrieved 2019-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Sprowl, Jonathan (January–February 2020). "A Conversation with Will Mancini". Outreach. 19, no. 1. p. 63. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Date format (link) - ↑ Mancini. Younique. pp. 52–54. Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Mancini, Will. "About". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mancini, Will (2008). Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. p. 83. ISBN 978-0787996833. Search this book on
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Mancini, Will (2019-01-23). "My 30-Minute 10-10 List to Inspire Your Own". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mancini, Will (2019). Clarity Spiral: The 4 Break-Thru Practices to Find the One Thing You're Called to Do. Self-pub. p. 34. ISBN 978-1790930029. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini. Younique. p. 67. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini. Younique. pp. 24–26. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini. Church Unique. p. 44. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini, Will (2011-02-02). "Church Unique Snapshot: The Vision Frame of Max Lucado and Randy Frazee". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 14.0 14.1 Mancini, Will. "Organizations". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Why We Exist". Future Church Co. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ↑ "Will Mancini". Slingshot Group | Church and Nonprofit Staffing & Coaching. 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
- ↑ Mancini, Will (2016-02-27). "5 Reasons Why Disciples Need Ministry Tools More than…". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Mancini, Will. "Master Tools". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ Mancini. Church Unique. p. 52. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini. Church Unique. p. 6. Search this book on
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Mancini, Will, 1969- (2020). Younique : designing the life God dreamed for you. With Rhodes, Dave and Hartman, Cory. Nashville. ISBN 978-1-4627-6667-3. OCLC 973920809.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Mancini, Will, 1969- (2008). Church unique : how missional leaders cast vision, capture culture, and create movement. Leadership Network (Dallas, Tex.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 978-0-7879-9683-3. OCLC 174131058.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Mancini, Will, 1969- (2016). God dreams : 12 vision templates for finding and focusing your church's future. Bird, Warren. Nashville, Tennessee: B & H Publishing Group. ISBN 1-4336-8845-X. OCLC 905381077.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Mancini, Will, 1969- (2013). Innovating discipleship : four paths to real discipleship results. Self-pub. ISBN 1-4910-3967-1. OCLC 891030112.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini, Will; Hartman, Cory (2020). Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. p. 37. ISBN 9781540900616. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini; Hartman. Future Church. p. 94. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini; Hartman. Future Church. pp. 22–29. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini; Hartman. Future Church. p. 49. Search this book on
- ↑ Malphurs, Aubrey. (2004). Building leaders : blueprints for developing leadership at every level of your church. Mancini, Will, 1969-. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books. ISBN 0-8010-9171-3. OCLC 53840242. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini, Will (2019). Clarity Spiral: The Four Break-Thru Practices to Find the One Thing You're Called to Do. Self-pub. ISBN 978-1790930029. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini, Will; Hartman, Cory (2020). Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. ISBN 9781540900616. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini, Will. "A Little Dose of Beauty, Intimacy and Adventure". Will Mancini. Retrieved 2019-12-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mancini. Church Unique. p. 259. Search this book on
- ↑ Mancini. Younique. pp. 11–12. Search this book on
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