The latest edition of the Lausanne World Pulse is out. You can read my account of the Rise and Rise of Pentecostalism. Don’t stop there. Don’t even start there. Read Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu’s overview of African Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity. Grant McClung is always good value. His article is entitled: People of Persuasion: Evangelism and the Pentecostal/Charismatic Revival [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2006
One more mountain to climb
Back in the late seventies my life was turned around by serving with YWAM on the Ark in Amsterdam. Today the couple who started that ministry have found a new mountain to climb. It’s called Africa. Floyd McClung has just turned 61 and he and Sally have moved to Africa to fuel church planting movements. [...]
The knowledge of God
The knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful wherever it is duly perceived, and rooted in the heart. John Calvin QuotesSpiritual Formation
Church growth — highway to hell?
ChurchMarketingSucks has a series examining church growth: Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? Here are their 9 Church Growth Myths. Eight of them from Rick Warren. Myth #1: The only thing that large churches care about is attendance. Myth #2: All large churches grow at the expense of smaller churches. Myth #3: You must [...]
Finding church planters
Leadership Network has done it again. Another top quality paper. This time on finding church planters. This paper reviews the best practices of strong church-planting churches as they discern those called to do church planting. They don’t offer Google-style speed, but they can definitely tell you when you are getting warm by using the following [...]
Participation pathway
Study the AFL Participation Pathway and ask: Why can’t church be like this? Movements grow leaders. Leadership
