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
Who owns the Great Commission?
28 May, 2009 – 12:45 AM
Tribes
20 May, 2009 – 7:52 PM
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 between telling people what to [...]
Movements that change the world
18 May, 2009 – 11:29 PM
We’re only a few weeks away from the launch of my book: Movements that change the world.
Here are some early reviews. . .
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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
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Steve has done his homework and has [...]
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: when church planting movements fill an [...]
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
17 May, 2009 – 1:12 AM
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 said he [...]
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 for [...]
