Windswept greetings from Floyd McClung to Aussie church planters via Dave Lawton. He shares a few gems on what it takes to fuel church planting movements. The outsider-insider distinction is very significant. I was challenged by the comments on prayer.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
The trouble with missionary movements
23 April, 2010 – 8:23 AM
I had sought out someone with a lot of experience in church planting movements who could help me make sense of what I was learning. There’s one line I will never forget—”We’ve never seen a church planting movement without persecution.”
The fall from greatness
21 April, 2010 – 4:07 PM
I’ve come to see institutional decline like a staged disease: harder to detect but easier to cure in the early stages, easier to detect but harder to cure in the later stages. An institution can look strong on the outside but already be sick on the inside, dangerously on the cusp of a precipitous fall. [...]
How Brian McLaren lost his way
21 April, 2010 – 12:37 AM
Brian’s new kind of Christianity is quite old. And the problem is that it’s not old enough. Scott McKnight McKnight does an outstanding job of reviewing Brian McLaren’s ‘A New Kind of Christianity’ and explains why he thinks McLaren has drifted from both evangelicalism and orthodoxy and wandered wandered down the path of 19th Century [...]
Five parts of a CPM plan
19 April, 2010 – 4:33 AM
I picked up this model of the five stages of a church planting movement when I was in Singapore. Not a guaranteed formula for success. Just what best practice looks like. 1. Entry: Reproducing bridges How do we start talking to people about the gospel? Whom do we talk to (persons of peace, houses of [...]
Flying out to Orlando
17 April, 2010 – 9:26 AM
Flying out for Orlando today and the Exponential conference. Look for me at the CRM Empowering Leaders table. I’ll have copies of Movements that Change the World for a conference price of $10. Next stop Annapolis for a workshop on Movements. Meanwhile the study guide should be ready for download before the end of April.
Paying the price to make disciples
16 April, 2010 – 3:52 AM
Here’s a prayer letter just in from Tim Scheuer. Tim has seen people come to faith in Jesus, disciples made, groups formed and the beginnings of church multiplication. I share Tim’s prayer letter for three reasons. First, so you can learn about the price that has to be paid for each breakthrough and the battle that [...]
Guía para Iniciar el Mentoreo de Líderes
15 April, 2010 – 2:42 PM
The Spanish version of my ebook on Coaching Leaders is now available. … Mentoreo de Lideres What this space for news of the Spanish version of Movements that Change the World.
Teaching students vs making disciples
15 April, 2010 – 3:38 AM
Here’s a simple paradigm for turning your bible study group into a disciple making group that reproduces. In a traditional home group, it’s the red that gets left out when time runs out. In a multiplying discipleship group it’s black that gets left out when time runs out.
England Before and After Wesley
10 April, 2010 – 12:31 AM
It is the plain old Christianity that I teach. John Wesley As British Methodists consider their bleak future, we would do well to remember the contribution of their founder, John Wesley. In an excellent article Donald Drew describes England before and after Wesley. He explains what was at the heart of Wesley’s world changing movement, [...]
