Monthly Archives: May 2009

Who owns the Great Commission?

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.

Tribes

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 [...]

movements dot net

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What does it look like?

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

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?

Here’s a great story on new believers discovering church in Ecuador.

Church 101

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?

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 [...]

A movements perspective on history and missions

We’re all going to die — eventually

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 [...]