In a recent article Dietrich Schindler contrasts “Good” church planting from “Great” church planting. His thoughts on “Generational Distance” got my attention. My wife’s grandparents were married for more than seventy-five years when they died. Grandpa was 105 and Grandma was 97. They left behind over 150 progeny. In their lifetime, they saw themselves forwarded [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
A new kind of gospel?
4 August, 2008 – 9:33 PM
Dynamic movements are committed to a cause. But what if you’re not sure what that cause is any more? Tim Keller writes: A generation ago, it would have been hard to imagine evangelicals unable to agree on what the simple gospel is: 1) God made you and you must have a relationship with him, 2) [...]
Whither the Anglican church?
2 August, 2008 – 8:15 AM
As the Lambeth Conference draws to a close it would good to take a step back from the immediate disputes that have divided the Anglican Communion and look at the wider context. On the left the global Anglican church of 1900. On the right, the Anglican church of 2005. Expect the trend to accelerate as [...]
Planting (mid-sized) churches in Europe
1 August, 2008 – 7:59 AM
A new report from Joanne Appleton of the European Church Planting Network (ECPN) about the use of “mid-sized†groups for church planting. In it she writes: Across Europe are finding that the development of mid-size communities is a successful tool in church planting in post-Christian European society. For example, the main church auditorium at St [...]
