Where did we get the idea that the best way to train a church planter was to take them out of their situation and put them in a classroom for a few years? … If we have to build colleges to train the pastors we pay to plant churches, we’ll never see a multiplication movement that reaches the 80 million people of Central Asia.
Category Archives: Church planting movements
Structuring for movements
4 February, 2010 – 4:10 PM
Max writes,
From your knowledge of the Bible, church and mission history – do you see structures as being significant in launching, growing and sustaining movements.
If you are aquainted with Dr Ralph Winters “Two Structures of God’s Redemptive Mission” which he terms Modality and Sodality can you comment on them both from an historical perspective and [...]
Learning from the east. Making it work in the west.
29 January, 2010 – 7:28 PM
Wherever I go, westerners tell me, “It won’t happen here.”
Despite the impact of church planting movements in the developing world, they are a rarity in the western world.
In the first of two interviews I talk to Jeff Sundell about ten years experience in fueling church planting movements in Nepal.
In the second interview I talk to [...]
How to find church planters
28 January, 2010 – 4:23 PM
A friend has just finished a serious of sermons on church planting movements. In a church of thousands. He spoke with conviction and the authority of a practitioner to people who are ready and responsive to hear.
Afterwards I asked him how many people had signed up to join one of his church planting bands.
“Just a [...]
The wisdom of experience
26 November, 2009 – 2:41 AM
Peter Roennfeldt has been planting churches for longer than I can remember. He has children, grand children and great grand children all over the globe.
Recently he and his wife Judy returned to Papua New Guinea where it all began. They visited the fourteen churches they planted in the capital Port Moresby before leaving in 1979. [...]
Airds update
16 November, 2009 – 7:01 AM
Tim Scheuer has been baptizing new believers down at the Airds swimming pool in Sydney.
Looks like he’d better buy a season’s ticket. Ten more people have come to faith in Christ in the last week.
I’ve just interviewed Tim for a church planting conference in Brisbane.
Listen in to find out what he’s learning.
Can denominations get the job done?
25 September, 2009 – 6:32 AM
David Watson pulls no punches in explaining Why Denominations Cannot Complete the Great Commission.
So if the end in mind is the Great Commission how should we do church?
Before you answer, read and re-read Luke-Acts as one story in two parts. Then answer these two questions:
How did Jesus make disciples who planted the first church in [...]
Back to the frontline
17 September, 2009 – 5:36 PM
Tim Scheuer is one of the few leaders applying the principles of church planting movements in the West. Here’s an interview I did with Tim on how he made the transition back to the frontline.
Dave Lawton: Church planting movements
17 September, 2009 – 4:28 AM
Dave Lawton (right) has been on a journey in three stages.
He has seen a church planting movement in India and Nepal. He has helped spark a church planting movement out of Crossway, one of Australia’s largest suburban churches. Now he is making disciples and multiplying “simple churches” in some of the most needy regions of [...]
4 more things Tim taught me
15 September, 2009 – 11:59 AM
A few more lessons from my teacher Tim. . .
4. Radically orthodox
Tim has no problem with the truth and relevance of the gospel. He has certainty when it comes to his message but flexibility when it comes to his methods. He knows the difference between what is given and what is up for grabs. He [...]
