Keep score: how many people do you have in a face to face Discovery Bible Studies learn to follow Jesus one story, one passage, at a time? … Measurement number one—how long is it going to take you before you start your first Discovery Bible Study?
Category Archives: Five keys
Keeping score: 3. Sharing the gospel
3 February, 2012 – 9:29 PM
Keeping track of the right things can change your life. If you want to lose weight, don’t weigh yourself. That doesn’t change anything. Try keeping track of how many times each week you do 30 minutes of vigorous exercise or more. That’s something you can control. What should we be keeping track of if we [...]
Keeping score: 2. Connecting with people
30 January, 2012 – 5:17 PM
A chat with Dave Ferguson got me thinking about measuring the right things if we want to fuel church planting movemets. We’ve already looked at tracking how well we’re seeing the need. Here’s the full list. Seeing the need Connecting with people Sharing the gospel Training disciples Gathering communities Multiplying workers 2. Connecting with people. [...]
Mising church
25 January, 2012 – 4:02 PM
Here’s a story from the draft to my next book. I’m looking forward to catching up with Nathan and Lipok in India next week. It’s early Sunday morning. Lipok and Nathan are traveling down the mighty Brahmaputra River to visit the believers among the Mising people of Assam, a state in northeastern India. They travel [...]
Marshmellows and the decline of the Western civilization
25 January, 2012 – 1:49 PM
Here’s a great parable for the decline of Western civilisation. It all comes down the marshmallow test. Looks like I’m in trouble. more. . .
Ever wondered what a church planting movement looks like?
19 December, 2011 – 7:49 PM
Study the map. What do you see? If you drew a map of your ministry, what would it look like?
Steve interviews Jeff Sundell on Moving to Multiplication
15 December, 2011 – 12:56 PM
In the latest Movements podcast Jeff Sundell reports in with updates from the field and insights on how to multiply workers who make disciples. Subscribe to the podcast or download the mp3. In the interview Jeff refers to the Discipleship Cycle resource. Here’s an article from Jeff in Mission Frontiers. “T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution” (Steve [...]
Movements on sale
9 December, 2011 – 9:48 PM
The Australian edition of Movements is on sale at Koorong Books for $7.96. I think it’s web sales only.
51% empty or 49% full?
9 December, 2011 – 9:15 PM
Researchers asked 1094 Australians who do not regard themselves as Christians: How open are you to changing your religious worldview? A majority of 51% are not open at all. So you can agonize over how to change the 51% who are resistant, or you can change your perspective and ask, How do we connect with [...]
Housekeeping
8 December, 2011 – 9:39 PM
I’ve done some work on the categories section of the blog. They should be easier to navigate. I’ve created a new class of categories under the Church Planting Movements (CPM) heading—Endvision, Connect, Gospel, Disciples, Communities, and Movements. The outline reflects the work I’m doing on a second book about Jesus and the Rise of the [...]
