A gem of an insight from a practitioner in Africa. Church planting movements are about ownership. Who owns the Great Commission? A CPM gives ownership of the Great Commission to the new believer and the local church. Some things never change.
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Tribes
20 May, 2009 – 9:52 AM
Heretics are where movements come from. Seth Godin I’m enjoying my free audio copy of Seth Godin’s Tribes. He understand movements. Here are a few gems that got my attention. Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out front of their tribes, who create movements. There’s a difference [...]
What does it look like?
18 May, 2009 – 7:40 PM
An update on David Riddell’s stages of development for church planting movements. I think we got it right this time. Planting: starting a new church. Addition: starting another new church. Reproduction: a church plants a new church. Multiplication: a reproduced church reproduces. Movement: church reproduction becomes the norm — spontaneous expansion of new churches. Saturation: [...]
Movements that change the world
18 May, 2009 – 1:29 PM
We’re only a few weeks away from the launch of my book: Movements that change the world. Here are some early reviews. . . _________________________________________________ A thoroughly readable description of the dynamics of missionary movements, as well as how to initiate, maintain, and extend them. ALAN HIRSCH Forge and Shapevine Author of The Forgotten Ways [...]
When can we be a church?
18 May, 2009 – 2:46 AM
Here’s a great story on new believers discovering church in Ecuador.
Church 101
16 May, 2009 – 3:12 PM
If the this post on the church got you stirred up, make sure you pick up a copy of Mark Driscoll’s latest book. Here’s a sample chapter worth reading and studying in your church or home group: What is a Christian Church?
Intus Ecclesiam nulla salus?
15 May, 2009 – 2:37 AM
In Vintage Church Mark Driscoll provides this example of modern-postmodern individualism run rampant: One well-known international missiologist told me that his friends stopped going to church and instead water-ski together every Sunday, and he told them that was fine because being together in the boat was a kingdom activity and therefore qualified as church. Jesus [...]
We’re all going to die — eventually
4 May, 2009 – 8:02 PM
I flew into Asia during the SARS outbreak in 2003. So many people told me I was crazy. I just figured if our workers were in the field I shouldn’t be concerned about visiting them. I also had my suspicions about the level of anxiety over the epidemic. On that trip I was in Thailand [...]
