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 [...]
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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 [...]
A lost history
22 June, 2009 – 2:38 AM
In his recent Cairo speech President Obama drew attention to the contribution of Islamic culture to civilization. He said, As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s [...]
Airds week 2
9 June, 2009 – 10:27 PM
In March some of us met with Barney while he was visiting Oz to talk about church planting movements. Tim heads up a national ministry of church planters and evangelists. He went back to Sydney, recruited a business manager to help him run the organization and freed up three days a week to plant churches [...]
The lost history of Christianity
6 April, 2008 – 8:36 AM
Philip Jenkins of Next Christendom fame has a new book coming next October. Here’s a preview. . . The Lost History of Christianity will change how we understand Christian and world history. Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the earliest, most influential churches of the [...]
Student power in world missions
24 October, 2006 – 12:38 PM
One of the reasons why Luke penned the book of Acts was to call successive and settled generations back to the challenge of world missions. We need to be reminded that there is still a world to be won by hearing the story of how God used five students and a prayer meeting to birth [...]
Friends who changed the world
28 January, 2006 – 5:11 AM
From OnMovements: The Clapham Sect—A Company of Friends An excellent post on the Clapham Sect, an evangelical movement led by William Wilberforce. One of the sources they reference is also available: William Wilberforce and His Circle of Friends by Richard L. Gathro. According to Gathro here’s what characterized this group of friends who changed the [...]
Growing leaders II
16 January, 2006 – 5:49 AM
Intentional leadership development is at the heart of any sustained church planting movement.This is the second post on the Ministry Training Strategy (MTS). The previous post looks at 7 Lessons on Growing Leaders. This one fills out some the detail and came out of phone conversation with Colin Marshall who heads up MTS. MTS offers [...]
