Category: Movement Building
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What Deters Volunteers?
What Deters Volunteers? Why do some people come back day after day to serve, while others try it…
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The Flywheel and Movements
I’ve been re-reading Jim Collins’ “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t” (Jim…
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Movements and Materials
We’re seeking the historical, sociological, and economic principles behind movements of evangelism and discipleship. Remember: a spiritual movement…
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Mass Movements
The Black Commentator featured an interesting article on the nature of Mass Movements. According to the article, mass…
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What Elwin Ransom of Cambridge Would Do
I’ve been reading C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra of late. In all of our discussion about movement building, we’ve emphasized–rightly–the…
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Religious Movements: Why JWs Grow So Rapidly
Rodney Stark and Laurence Iannaccone have a paper on Why the Jehovah’s Witnesses Grow so Rapidly. They apply…
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The Power of Sarcasm: What to do while you wait for God to build movements
I’ve adapted Steve Addison’s list of suggestions (plus some of the comments) for what we can do while…
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Friends and Movements
Source: Friends and Movements Sam Metcalf’s Blog Under The Iceberg: Any movement which has benefited society in the…
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Missional Leadership by George Hunsberger
George Hunsberger argues that those who lead well lead missionally. Leadership is not about personal charisma. He argues,…
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Movement Math
All movements have their own special arithmetic. Movements, for example, always prefer multiplication over addition. They just love…
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Scattered Comments on Movements from Alan Hirsch
Found the following comments by Alan Hirsch on Sam Metcalf’s Blog. Alan is National Director of Forge in…
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Movements and Martyrs
All movements possess what one sociologist calls “true believers.” True believers willingly sacrifice all for the cause to…
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Podcast: Interview with Steve Addison
Steve Addison is a life-long student of movements that renew and expand the Christian faith. Steve currently serves…
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The Chapham Sect–A Company of Friends
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was the Member of the English Parliament who led the campaign to abolish the slave…
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Movements and Men and Women of Action
The Scriptures are clear: nothing of vitality can rest on words alone, whether it be a life or…
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Changing Your World
(Source: Steve Addison) From Scott Hampton: unNotified Bodies: Stubborn Resistance to Change Movements emerge because something needs to…
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Movements and Mission
All movements are driven by mission; they are missional by definition. Movements cease to exist apart from mission.…
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Movement Building and Training
I ran across the following quote from Bill Allison of Cadre Ministries. On September 11, 2001, a small…
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Movements and Leadership
No movement can go forward without leadership. As with most efforts, strong leadership remains the indispensable element to…
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Podcast: The Four Marks of a Movement
Using the story of the North Platte Canteen, this podcast (click here) discusses Ken Cochrum’s Four Marks of…
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2 Timothy 2:2 and Movement Building
Paul to Timothy: And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to…
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What does it take to start a Movement? J. Allen Thompson looks at Ephesus
A Great Resource at this Site: The Movement – Redeemer Urban Church Planting Center e-Newsletter: WHAT DOES IT…
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Friendship and Movement Building
I was struck reading Marrty’s previous post (Sant’Egidio–The Weak Strength of the Gospel) by the role of friendship.…
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Sant Egidio — The Weak Strength of the Gospel
In his book, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, The World Before and After Jesus, historian Thomas Cahill tells…
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Einstein On Movements
Einsteinonmovements, originally uploaded by jayllorenzen. Click on Einstein! Tweet
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Barney’s Principles Of Movements in Closed Countries
Lunch with Barney Steve Addison shares the following account of a visit with a “church planter/movement builder” in…
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Movements as Organic
“Surfing the Edge of Chaos : The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business” (Richard Pascale,…
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Mission After Christendom
I’ve been wrestling with David Smith’s Mission after Christendom for several weeks. I hate it when books upset…
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Simplicity in Building Movements
Simplicity is the key to the fulfillment of the Great Commission in this generation. If the process is…
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Good, Better, Best in the Building of Movements
Steve Steele of Dawn Ministries comments: The continued growth of Christian churches in China–mostly underground house churches —…
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