Category: Movement Building
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The Way God Works
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(This is an old post from another blog, but re-reading it this morning, I found it suggestive of…
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The Audacity of Leadership
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Since my last post, I’ve been underlining every other line in Edwin Friedman’s The Failure of Nerve. I’ve…
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The Well-Differentiated Leader
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A friend of mine put me onto Edwin Friedman’s “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of…
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Lincoln’s Leadership
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I’ve enjoyed reading lots about Abraham Lincoln this year. I’ve been wanting to work out some principles of…
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The Reveal Study and Building Movements
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A recent article “The Open Secrets About Deep Spiritual Growth” by Cally Parkinson appeared May/June issue of Rev!…
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Characteristics of a Movement
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At simplychurch.com, Felicity Dale made the following points about movements and their structural components: What characterizes a movement? …
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More on the Imagination
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“The poverty I’m most concerned abt in Newark & our globe is a poverty of compassion, of action,…
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New Media and Movements
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Ran across Clay’s TED talk…. I’m anxious to get our teams together and discuss the implications for “movement…
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Imagination and Movements
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In the building of movements, do we depend upon a combination of methods, knowledge, and skills when what…
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The McClellan Mistake
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Building a movement always challenges the status quo. Leaders must act, they must willingly risk the things they…
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Leaders — Intentional Influence
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Just read the following excellent article on leadership as “intentional influence.” From his study of 1000 leaders in…
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Petite Prince
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Rwanda (B-sides) -27, originally uploaded by Jon Allen. I’ve been in Rwanda for the past 10 days. Petite…
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Leaders Shape the Culture for Movements
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Will Mancini’s excellent book on missional team leadership argues that we must be cultural architects, consciously aware of…
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Leadership Learnings
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I love to glean leadership lessons from the blogosphere. The Exponential Network put together their own collection in…
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Two Great Objects
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William Wilberforce commented after his Great Change (his conversion to Christ) that up to this point in his…
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Jesus–The Most Interesting Person
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Dallas Willard has argued that Jesus was the most intelligent person who ever lived. In an article entitled…
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A Definition of Leadership
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Ran across the post by Jonathan Brink, loved it. But I would suggest that leadership is actually very…
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Tim Keller: Proclamation and The Poor
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Take some time to read and reflect on Tim Keller’s article on the relationship between “The Proclamation of…
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The Movement to All By Way of the Least
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In a previous post, I summarized part of Richard Bauckham’s argument that: “God is always moving from the…
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Set Brush Fires
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“..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush…
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The Metanarrative and Building Movements Everywhere
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Richard Bauckham in Bible and Mission argues that the biblical narrative always embodies a kind of movement from…
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Movements and Change
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I’ve been researching “social movements” of late and discovered the following definition of movements: “a collective action that…
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Cal Thomas on Movements
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Eric Swanson sent me a link to the editorial below by Cal Thomas. Cal hit on one of…
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Leaders as Initiators
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Reacting is based on instinct and intuition. Responding requires thoughtfulness. Initiating comes from imagination. An atmosphere where people…
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An Old Quote with an Important Truth
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Those who would transform a nation or the world cannot do so by breeding and captaining discontent or…
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The Role of Deliberate Practice in Leadership Development
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Malcolm Gladwell tells us in Outliers that when it comes to success, context is everything. Only by asking…
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Five Marks of Mission
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Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission, edited by Andrew Wall and Cathy…
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Movements Require Kingdom Thinking, not Marketplace Thinking
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In a lot of ways, churches (and ministries/movements, etc.–mine) operate like the marketplace; we keep our ideas and…
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A Rope of Sand
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George Whitefield was Methodism’s first and most popular spokesman. Ben Franklin, one of Whitefield’s admirers, devised an experiment…
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