Why did you write Movements that Change the World? A number of reasons. As a church planter I remember hearing Peter Wagner say, “Starting new churches is the most effective form of evangelism under the sun.” I thought if that’s true, then starting church planting movements could be even more effective. I dived in to [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Good news in Airds
14 August, 2009 – 10:52 AM
This prayer update just came in from Tim Scheuer. That’s Tim on the right with Nicci and Phil, one of the indigenous team members. In just a few lines it tells the story of people coming to faith out of hard environments. We hear of a mission team that is out connecting with people in [...]
How Movements got published
10 August, 2009 – 8:44 AM
Five years ago I drafted a book based on what I had learned about movements from a decade of observation and study. Six publishers considered the draft and six publishers rejected the draft. No one was interested. At least, not interested in reading what I had written. I was confused. Everywhere I went to speak [...]
How I wrote Movements
8 August, 2009 – 10:27 PM
A very long time ago, just after Michelle and I were married, Michelle asked me, “Do you have any dreams you’d like to accomplish one day? From out of nowhere I told her, “I’m going to write a book one day.” Until that moment I had never thought about writing a book. I didn’t even [...]
What if America is not the exception?
1 August, 2009 – 3:53 AM
Here’s a few salient points from an interview with the Economist’s editor in chief John Micklethwait on his new book – God is Back: how the global revival of faith is changing the world. On Western Europe, not the US, as the exception to the rest of the world. . . I think, if you [...]
