This just came in from a friend somewhere in Asia. Hi Steve We leave for a trip tonight. Looking forward to it. Will visit many mosques and share the gospel with whomever we can. I looked at your blog this morning and saw you have something on the Camel. You might be interested to know [...]
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It won’t work here!
5 August, 2011 – 4:37 PM
Earlier this year I traveled to Orlando Florida to run a workshop on church planting movements. That’s where I met Neil Perry. Neil was the pastor of a growing church who found himself preoccupied with “butts on seats” rather than making disciples. Enter Jeff Sundell who had spent ten years in India and Nepal learning [...]
No one excluded except the real Jesus
30 July, 2011 – 12:38 AM
It’s a serious thing to sack a seventy year old priest. The Catholic church has a shortage of them. Yet it strikes me as strange that someone who doesn’t believe in the Trinity, the virgin birth—who doesn’t believe Jesus ever existed—should want to be a priest, or should even expect to remain a priest. Father [...]
Catholic church sacks Father Kennedy. Father Kennedy sacks Jesus.
28 July, 2011 – 11:47 PM
At the end of a long dispute the Catholic church has finally decided to excommunicate Father Kennedy. Two years ago the Socialist Alliance posters outside St Mary’s Catholic Church in Brisbane said it all. “Dump Intolerance, not Father Kennedy.” “Who would Jesus sack?” The father in question is Peter Kennedy, the 70-year-old Catholic priest who [...]
Duane’s report
21 December, 2010 – 1:52 AM
A photo of Tim Scheuer (centre) and some of his team from Airds in SW Sydney. Duane at The Aristophrenium has just posted two articles on Tim Scheuer’s attempts at sparking church planting movements in a Western setting: Making Disciples in Airds Evangelism—Just do it! Here’s Tim’s last address as national leader of Church Army. [...]
Jeff Sundell reports in (1)
1 December, 2010 – 10:20 AM
We’ve just hosted a three day Community of Practice for leaders that are applying church planting movement (CPM) principles around Australia. We brought Jeff and Angie Sundell (above) out to facilitate the peer learning. Here Jeff Sundell talks about his efforts to apply what he learned about CPMs in India and Nepal, back home in [...]
Anyone for a walk?
9 September, 2010 – 11:22 PM
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is [...]
Pentecostal power
17 November, 2009 – 5:56 AM
What is remarkable about this new strain of Pentecostalism is the heroic intensity of the ministries, which have not yet evolved into tired bureaucracies. The founders of these programs are driven by a sense of calling, a feeling of thankfulness for how God has intervened in their personal lives, and they are constantly reinventing their [...]
Disciples or Crowds?
22 September, 2009 – 7:22 PM
So do rapidly expanding church planting movements grow disciples or just gather crowds? Let’s take a look at what happened in Rwanda. Here’s the email traffic with David Watson. . . Hi David I noticed on your blog that you’ve been to Rwanda. I’ve had some thoughtful mission leaders question the effectiveness of church planting [...]
What about Rwanda?
21 September, 2009 – 6:43 PM
A couple of years ago I got into a discussion with some missions about the limitations of church planting movements as a mission strategy. Their concern was the quality and maturity of the believers in regions such as Africa and especially in a place like Rwanda. In 1994, Rwanda Hutu extremists massacred hundreds of thousands [...]
