Where did we get the idea that the best way to train a church planter was to take them out of their situation and put them in a classroom for a few years? … If we have to build colleges to train the pastors we pay to plant churches, we’ll never see a multiplication movement that reaches the 80 million people of Central Asia.
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Learning from the east. Making it work in the west.
29 January, 2010 – 7:28 PM
Wherever I go, westerners tell me, “It won’t happen here.”
Despite the impact of church planting movements in the developing world, they are a rarity in the western world.
In the first of two interviews I talk to Jeff Sundell about ten years experience in fueling church planting movements in Nepal.
In the second interview I talk to [...]
Missional Fad vs Missional Movement
11 January, 2010 – 9:43 PM
Ed Stetzer wonders why so many “missional” churches are uninterested in doing global missions. Others have wondered why the emerging/missional church doesn’t do evangelism.
Dan Kimball agrees that something is wrong: “For the past few years, I have been observing, listening, and asking questions about the missional movement. I have a suspicion that the missional model [...]
When “missional” churches aren’t
9 January, 2010 – 1:14 PM
Ed Stetzer wonders why some missional churches don’t do global missions.
It appears to me that many missional churches are missing the Great Commission in the name of being missional. That makes zero sense.
I was recently told by a pastor who called himself “missional” that his church needed to pull back on their global mission support [...]
Can denominations get the job done?
25 September, 2009 – 6:32 AM
David Watson pulls no punches in explaining Why Denominations Cannot Complete the Great Commission.
So if the end in mind is the Great Commission how should we do church?
Before you answer, read and re-read Luke-Acts as one story in two parts. Then answer these two questions:
How did Jesus make disciples who planted the first church in [...]
Back to the frontline
17 September, 2009 – 5:36 PM
Tim Scheuer is one of the few leaders applying the principles of church planting movements in the West. Here’s an interview I did with Tim on how he made the transition back to the frontline.
4 more things Tim taught me
15 September, 2009 – 11:59 AM
A few more lessons from my teacher Tim. . .
4. Radically orthodox
Tim has no problem with the truth and relevance of the gospel. He has certainty when it comes to his message but flexibility when it comes to his methods. He knows the difference between what is given and what is up for grabs. He [...]
7 ways to lose
9 September, 2009 – 11:14 AM
Without multiplication we lose. Any strategy based merely on the health, growth and addition of individual disciples and churches will never catch up to a multiplying world population. The numbers just don’t add up.
Without a global perspective we lose. I’m confused. Why is the modern/postmodern church in the West so unaware of what God is [...]
Good news in Airds
14 August, 2009 – 10:52 AM
This prayer update just came in from Tim Scheuer. That’s Tim on the right with Nicci and Phil, one of the indigenous team members.
In just a few lines it tells the story of people coming to faith out of hard environments. We hear of a mission team that is out connecting with people in their [...]
Movements and organizational control
28 July, 2009 – 6:01 AM
Some good questions from a mate ministering in Eastern Europe on movements.
To Steve
Had a question about your book. You talked p88 onwards about Methodist/Baptist growth. You mention on p 91 that the Methodists were centrally controlled but the Baptists were autonomous. You then say that both actually planted self governing congregations because the methodist pastors [...]
