Category: Marks of a Movement
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Triaging Your Broken World
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I’ve been reading Mike Breen’s Leading Kingdom Movements. Breen compares the four steps emergency workers follow when determining…
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Water Day: Movements That Change the World
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Today is water day…and I want to be part of a water movement that brings clean water to…
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Practices of New Jesus Movements
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The tallskinnykiwi recently summarized the “Practices of a New Jesus movement” based on his visits to Asia and…
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The Language of Movement Building: Think Pink!
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We spend several sessions discussing the “language of leadership” at our Gettysburg “If Properly Led” Conferences, arguing that…
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Tim Keller: On Movements
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On September 30th, in New York City, several organizations are hosting “a gathering of leaders to catalyze Gospel…
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New Frontiers and Movements
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I can’t help but make the connection between movements in history and God driving Christ-followers toward the frontiers…
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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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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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Movement Leaders as Heretics
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As one commentator said, Seth Godin’s new book, Tribes, is an enthusiastic endorsement of standing up and taking…
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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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The Social Capitalist Awards
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For the past five years, Fast Company has granted “Social Capitalist Awards” to organizations that combine social impact…
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Check out Movementbuilders.com
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Check out Shane Walton’s Movement Builders blog. I’m loving everything I’m reading there. Because Shane is focusing on…
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Even More Mott on Movements 3
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Be Christ-like 9. It is not necessary that we do so many things, or that we have our…
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Mott on Movements Part 2
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More Mott on Movements Raise the Bar 4. Make the gospel difficult and you make it triumphant. “Christ…
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Blue Ocean Movements
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In response to Hirsch’s challenge (last post) to go after the "populations" for which the typical models,…
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Missional Team Leadership: The Lessons of Wilberforce
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Andy Crouch had a fascinating article in the last Catalyst ezine entitled The Horizons of the Possible: Why…
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The Essentials of Church Planting Movements
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“Church Planting Movements”, according to New Generations International, are characterized by these essential elements. I adapted them for…
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Integrated Thinking and Movement Building
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I’m wondering whether movement building requires integrated thinking. In his book, “The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win…
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Discipling and Coaching Approach of Jesus–Ralph Moore
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For starters, Jesus chose ordinary people.There was no attempt to reach the rich and famous in order to…
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Ralph Moore on Movements
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Steve Addison (praying for you, bro) captured some of Ralph Moore‘s thots on Movements and Movement Building. I’m…
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How to Kill a Movement
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Sam Metcalf at UnderTheIceberg posted the following list on How To Kill a Movement: 1. Require education for…
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Forces for Good–Spiritual Movements as High-Impact Nonprofits
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Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant. Jossey-Bass…
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What we need are ideas!
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In a challenging little book entitled “How to Re-Imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries”, Anthony…
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Good To Great applied to Movement Building
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Jim Collin’s bestselling book on organizational behavior, “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others…
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Leadership Essentials
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In an article at www.pastors.com, Rick Warren summarized his basic concepts about leadership. I found several of them…
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The Metronome of Movements
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I’ve been playing with the idea of seeing movement building like a metronome. As you know, a metronome…
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Changing the World
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“When you become a Christian, Jesus will invade your life and make you into somebody he can use…
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A Willingness to Listen
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In a side note in his book, The Next Generation Leader, Andy Stanley made the following comment: It…
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