I didn’t make the Exponential conference this year. But Dave Ferguson did. Here’s his summary of Redeemer’s strategy for international church planting. 1. Target key international cities. Tim Keller believes that the key cities in the world today are New York, London, Hong Kong. However, he said that Hong Kong will soon be replaced in [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Floyd and Sally McClung
29 May, 2008 – 6:39 AM
Michelle and I spent yesterday afternoon with Floyd and Sally McClung at Healsville Sanctuary. Enjoyed the Aussie wildlife and catching up. It’s almost 30 years since Michelle and I met on the Ark in Amsterdam. Floyd and Sally pioneered that ministry. A few years ago the McClungs moved to Capetown, South Africa with a vision [...]
US becoming minority Protestant
28 May, 2008 – 8:25 PM
The Pew Forum has released new report on American religious life. Based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans, the 140 page Landscape Survey finds that religious affiliation in the US is both diverse and fluid. The Survey confirms that the United States is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant country. 51% of [...]
Dry bones live
28 May, 2008 – 8:19 PM
foto ©Godefroylg Here’s an interview I conducted with a worker somewhere in the Middle East. We’ll call him “Tom”. It’s a case study of a church planting movement among a minority that is culturally Christian but without a first hand faith of their own. 1. What’s your background in church planting? Our first church plant [...]
Oscar Muriu
27 May, 2008 – 9:40 AM
I’m off to Africa for the first time this month. Bob Roberts has invited me to a gathering of leaders interested in talking about Church Planting Movements. I think most of them are practitioners so I’ll be doing a lot of listening. Our host in Kenya is Oscar Muriu pastor of the Nairobi Chapel. Here’s [...]
What must be done?
27 May, 2008 – 8:56 AM
David Mills asks, If it’s true that religious bureaucracy deforms and hinders Christian ministry, what should be done? Western churches must radically change the way they work. They must reorganize their lives, by exchanging a centralized system run by processes with impersonal rules and directed towards centrally chosen ends, for a decentralized system allowed to [...]
Why we must resist religious bureaucracy
26 May, 2008 – 8:45 AM
Some wisdom from David Mills on why we must resist religious bureaucracy. 1. Religious bureaucracy tends to define the mission of the church as the continuing life and success of the institution as it is, which means, that its processes continue to process. Bureaucratic processes prefer “process people”, people who by personality and usually conviction [...]
CS Lewis remembers
25 May, 2008 – 8:31 AM
In this autobiography of his childhood, CS Lewis recounts the process of his own conversion as a young professor at Oxford in the late 1920s. You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of [...]
Why church bureaucracies have to go
23 May, 2008 – 6:26 AM
What’s going on when a religious movement becomes a religious bureaucracy? David Mills paints a terrifying picture of the damage they inflict. Any revival in these (mainline) churches will require not the reform but the abandonment of the many layers of bureaucracy they have built up over the last few decades, giving the local bodies [...]
Floyd McClung on church planting movements
22 May, 2008 – 4:15 PM
Floyd and Sally McClung will be in Melbourne, Australia on May 31 for the Unlimited, the Crossway missions conference. One of Floyd’s sessions will be on church planting movements. I’ll be overseas but if you’re in the region, Floyd is a must. Friday 30 May 6PM – late Youth and Young Adults Conference Manifest band [...]
