There’s a board at Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay that lists just some of the churches that have been planted out of that church. How do they do it? Ralph Moore uses a baseball image to describe the difference between success and failure. Success requires: 1. A willingness to learn from mistakes. 2. Lots of chances [...]
Tag Archives: Movement case studies
Where it all began. . .
12 December, 2007 – 2:18 PM
Ralph Moore was 25 years old when he planted the first Hope Chapel in Manhattan Beach, California. It was 1972. He had no guaranteed income, a car with 154,000 miles on the clock, a wife and infant son. He had short hair and wore a three piece suit at a time where everyone else had [...]
The fundamentalist delusion
15 July, 2007 – 7:35 AM
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion Here’s Richard Dawkins, sword flailing, mowing down [...]
Wilson Carlile and the Church Army
6 June, 2007 – 2:21 PM
This week I’m in Sydney speaking at the national conference of the Church Army Australia on movements. I did some research on the Church Army and their founder Wilson Carlile. An inspiring tale. Carlile left school at fourteen to make his fortune which he did by the time he was twenty six. Then came the [...]
First there was the pdf, then the book, now the movie. . .
27 March, 2007 – 2:49 PM
The remarkable story of how the Southern Baptists are fueling indigenous church planting movements around the world. Make sure you get the free pdf and buy the book here. Christianity moves southChurch Planting Movements
A church planting movement stalls
22 February, 2007 – 5:58 AM
Martin Robinson‘s account of the rise and fall of a national church planting movement in Britain: What happened? and Why?. BTW no photo of Martin this time as I’m sure it’s bad luck to have three bald guys in a row. Four counting Bozo the clown. Church Planting MovementsMartin Robinson
Trouble in the Chapel
21 February, 2007 – 8:46 AM
Christianity Today is carrying a disturbing report of deep rooted and systemic problems within the Calvary Chapel movement founded by Chuck Smith. See: Day of Reckoning: Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel face an uncertain future. According to CT a once dynamic church planting movement of over 1000 churches is in serious trouble. Why? Sounds like [...]
Aztec collapse
6 February, 2007 – 5:12 AM
Almost five hundred years ago, Hernando Cortez walked into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and presented their leader, Montezuma II with an ultimatum. Give me your gold or you’ll die. Cortex had been amazed by the great highways leading to the city, it’s complex aqueducts, sheer size and beauty of it’s temples and [...]
Ten nation study of Pentecostalism
22 January, 2007 – 6:33 PM
A 226 page study of Pentecostalism in ten different nations (Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, US): Spirit and Power Worth a look if you think you can learn something from the world’s fastest growing church planting movement. Christianity moves southPentecostalismTrends
Gypsy faith
15 January, 2007 – 5:31 PM
photo The Gypsy revival can be traced back to 1950 in Normandy, France in the town of Liseuz. A gypsy lady named Duvil-Reinhart. A member of the local Assemblies of God gave her a tract at market. She forgot about it until a few months later when one of her sons became desperately ill. She [...]
