Category Archives: Resources

Recommended reading and resources

Ed Stetzer in Melbourne

Will the National Church LIfe Survey help us confront the brutal facts?

Jim Collins said, the difference between Good and Great is how you confront the brutal facts. You can’t confront them if you don’t know them. Every five years the National Church Life Survey (NCLS) conducts a survey into church life and mission in Australia. Previously they have done some great work tracking the effectiveness of [...]

Steve interviews Jeff Sundell on Moving to Multiplication

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 [...]

Writing tools

Really enjoying Writing Tools by Roy Clark. It’s the best book I’ve read on the craft of writing since “If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland. Ueland’s book inspired me to write with my own voice. Clark’s book helps me develop the skills of a writer. It’s $1.99 $8.99 on the Kindle app for [...]

Movements podcasts

I’ve just updated the Movements podcast page to make it easier to navigate. Happy listening!

Movements in 60 minutes

One of my workshop sessions from Exponential 2011.

More on Discovery Bible Studies

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 [...]

Another price drop @ Koorong

For Australians and New Zealanders we’ve just negotiated a price drop to $9.95 with Koorong Books.

Making disciples for dummies (like me)

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 [...]

T4T now on Kindle

Steve Smith and Ying Kai’s book on church planting movements is now out on Kindle. “T4T: A Disciple ship Re-Revolution” (Steve Smith with Ying Kai)