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 [...]
Category Archives: 5. Adaptive methods
A time to speak. A time to let the scriptures speak.
4 November, 2011 – 6:11 PM
I was asked recently to speak at a church gathering of people recovering from drug and alcohol additions. The safe thing to do would have been to pull out one of my well worn messages. Instead I took a risk. I broke people into groups of three to five and told them to read the [...]
More on Discovery Bible Studies
31 October, 2011 – 9:45 PM
Here’s some wisdom from a friend who knows a lot more about Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) as a method of evangelism, disciple making and planting churches. In most situations, it is best to start with two or three (or more). Try and reach a community, not just an individual … This gives the meeting a [...]
Making disciples for dummies (like me)
25 October, 2011 – 9:04 PM
I’m having fun these days doing Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) with people who want to know more about Jesus. This week I met with a twenty something professional. We’re working through Matthew’s Gospel. That wasn’t my plan, somehow we started in Genesis and jumped to Matthew. The guy is out of control. We’re meant to [...]
Building a bridge for Muslims
20 October, 2011 – 3:54 AM
The latest Movements podcast is an interview with Kevin Greeson, author of The Camel. He describes a simple method of identifying Muslims who would like to know more about Isa (Jesus). It’s non confrontational and has been effective in many different contexts around the world. Some great insights on building bridges for sharing the gospel, [...]
Why success always starts with failure
23 July, 2011 – 10:18 PM
I’ve just listened to an interview on Counterpoint with Tim Harford, the author of Adapt. The book sounds very promising. “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure” (Tim Harford)
Floyd McClung on the joy of not leading
18 April, 2011 – 8:13 AM
Floyd McClung shares one of his happiest moments so far in Africa. . . Anyway, my D-Group on Wednesday evenings is with 4 Malawian men who are new believers and future church planters. They live in shacks, are dirt poor, but most important, they have a vibrant, growing love for Jesus and a willingness to [...]
A simple principle
17 November, 2010 – 9:57 AM
I’m still enjoying Ben Witherington’s commentary on Acts. Here’s a great insight into early Christianity’s advantage over the established religions of the ancient world. Sure we live in a different world today. Christianity arose during a time when there was already enormous religious curiosity on the part of Romans and other pagans about Eastern religions [...]
Seven themes of fruitfulness
17 September, 2010 – 6:01 AM
In March 2007, a group of 300 practitioners met for five days in Southeast Asia to discuss what the Spirit is doing as they seek to facilitate communities of Jesus-followers among Muslims. A list of the findings: 1. Sharing the Hope within: Fluency 2. Engaging Hearts and Minds: Storying 3. Exemplary Lifestyle: Reputation 4. Redemptive [...]
Sharing Isa
30 July, 2010 – 4:32 AM
It was around 4am. The second night in Malaysia and I was wide awake. I wandered down to the hotel lobby to see if I could pick up an internet connection and bumped into another insomniac—Abdul from Saudi Arabia. Malaysia is a great place to meet muslims. It’s a muslim state, and thousands of muslims [...]
