Category: Movement Building
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Wilberforce as Movement Leader
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The Movement to Abolish Slavery Mike Metzger in his Clapham Commentary summarized the movement to abolish slavery in…
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Alan Cross on Network Theory Part 2
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Implications for Ministry Networks in the 21st Century Networks exist as platforms for interaction, communication, and best practices…
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Alan Cross on Network Theory Part 1
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Alan Cross at downshoredrift.typepad.com summarized some thoughts on Network Theory. I thought it worth posting in two sections.…
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WWJM? What would Jesus measure?
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Earl Creps’ Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders has a challenging chapter on Assessment: The Disciple of…
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Leadership Development by Bob Roberts
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I believe that Bob Roberts of NorthWood Church in Keller, Tx captures the heart of leadership development in…
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Surfing with Eric
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Sometimes I just want to be Eric Swanson’s editor. His brain is moving so fast that I afraid…
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Movements and Urbanization
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All ambitious missionary movements are, or soon become, urban. If the goal is to make disciples of all…
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Bioteaming and Movement Building
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I’m enamored with the thought that God did not give us the gospel to explain creation, He gave…
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More from Stark on Life in the Streets
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Rodney Stark’s new book, Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and…
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Addison On the Wesleyan Movement
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Steve Addison argues in a recent post that a “movement is held together by a common cause. That’s…
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Justice–at the Heart of Movements?
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Carl H. Henry, one of evangelical’s greatest theologians, said of the evangelicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:…
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The Early Church Making Life Tolerable — In the Streets
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Historically, movements always revitalize. By nature, spiritual movements affect life on the streets; they are corrective. They transform…
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Living Out His Reign in the Streets
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I’ve been spending the last three days discussing how the gospel about Jesus Christ and the gospel of…
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Natural Church Planting by Tim Keller
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According to Tim Keller, the Book of Acts had a mindset, a set of guiding assumptions. Paul and…
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The Team Leader in Movement Building–Part 2
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In the last post, I suggested that the two most important characteristics of successful movement builders are their…
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The Team Leader in Movement Building–Part 1
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The most important ingredient in building movements may be the local team leaders. Thus, finding and preparing local…
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Rise and Fall of Movements
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Below are Steve Addison‘s seven lessons from the story of the rise and fall of the Student Christian…
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Student Christian Movement
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Steve Addison recently released his latest in a series of case studies in the lifecycle of a movement:…
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Disciples who build movements
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I’ve been reflecting some on Milfred Minatrea’s Shaped by God’s Heart: The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches…
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Movement Definitions Part III
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What Kind of Church to Plant Allen Thompson goes on to argue that Redeemer Church’s understanding of "gospel"…
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Movement Definitions Part II
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I’ve been meaning to get back to Allen Thompson’s article on defining movements, found in the June edition…
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Why volunteers wont help us build movements?
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I found the following list on Mark Sanborn’s ezine. Sanborn believes there are five reasons why people “don’t…
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What Volunteers Want
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In an article he did for Christianity Today, Ted Harro suggests the following five things that every volunteer…
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7 Practices of Effective Ministry
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The authors of 7 Practices of Effective Ministry just put their “practices” into an excellent set of podcasts.…
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Movement Definitions
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As a ministry committed to "building spiritual movements," we are constantly wrestling over definitions. How can you hit…
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Movement Building as Cultivation (Part 5)
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In my first post on R&R’s The Missional Leader, I defined leadership as “cultivating or creating an environment…
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Leadership in the Green Zone
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Roxburgh and Romanuk offer the following characteristics of leadership in the Green or Emergent Zone. They argue that…
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Movement Building as “Cultivation of Environments” (Part 3)
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Opt for the Green Zone Roxburgh and Romanuk offer, what they call, The Three Zone Model of Missional…
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The Otherworldly Church
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the following observation about the religious church or movement: We are otherworldly—ever since we hit…
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