Category: Marks of a Movement
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I have a dream
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I ran across a fascinating essay about what would have been a normally uninteresting topic, “The Death of…
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The Found Art of Disciplemaking
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I just returned from Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is competing with Haiti to become the “poorest nation in…
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Self Directed Learning for Leaders
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In his book Primal Leadership, emotional intelligence expert Daniel Goleman says it like this: The crux of leadership…
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Survivor Leaderships: Who Survives and Why?
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In his book Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales analyzes the mysteries of survival. In a gripping series of survival…
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Learning about Your Team
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I ran across an interesting article from John Maxwell about teams and team leadership. He noted that in…
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The Discipleship Malaise: Getting to the Root Causes
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Jesus was clear: “Go and make disciples…” From the Scriptures, it’s also clear that disciples are “self-initiating, reproducing,…
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A Sense of Sentness
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Forty times in the book of John, Jesus refers to himself as being sent by the Father. When…
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Helping Disciples Learn from Jesus
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Over the few years, I’ve been wrestling with the characteristics common to all spiritual movements. I’ve grown committed…
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Change: the product of quiet, steady, unremitting pressure
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I’m not a fan of the French, but I remember studying abt this little guy who made a…
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What is the Gospel?
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Scot McKnight of jesuscreed.org (one of the best blogs around) defines the gospel as follows: The gospel is…
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Practical Movement Building Skills
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I’m hesitant to write this. As a ministry committed to building movements of evangelism and discipleship everywhere, we…
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Christ-followers as Translators
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When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow countrymen either in the highly…
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The Story of the North Platte Canteen
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The story of the North Platte Canteen is the story of a movement. See: Making 10 Minutes Count…
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Teams That Build Movements
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Jesus realized what we often forget—wellfunctioning and motivated teams are critical to success. When Jesus wanted to build…
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A Recipe for Imagination
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A Recipe for Imagination It’s time to cook up something other than macaroni and cheese. The stale recipes…
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McManus on Being Effective
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Erwin McManus argues that to be effective as church planters or movement builders, we must value: Uniqueness over…
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Invention Factory
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Sam Metcalf recorded the following post taken from a magazine story on Thomas Edison, the famous American inventor.…
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Equipping Your Key Volunteers
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We’ll never build movements apart from building multiplying leaders. And all leaders begin as key volunteers. Don Simmons,…
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The Danger of Non-Autonomous Thinkers
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I’ve been reading a lot about creativity, innovation, risk taking, and the creative power of group genius. At…
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The In Extremis Leader
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I was fascinated by the Leader to Leader summary of Thomas Kolditz book on In Extremis Leadership. In…
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Simple Movements
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When querying the universe, Albert Einstein once commented, “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” Several weeks…
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iTunesU and The Entrepreneurial Movement Leader
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iTunes recently added the coolest thing: iTunesU (iTunes University). Go to iTunes and take a look. It’s amazing.…
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Good News and Good Deeds: Visibility and Credibility and Compassion Part II
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I just received a ezine quoting the last chapter of John Piper’s new book, The Future of Justification.…
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Good News and Good Deeds: Visibility and Credibility and Compassion
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What is the relationship between good news and good deeds in our movement building? I’ve been wrestling with…
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Rediscovering Christianity’s Beginnings
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes…
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More on Networking
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Guy Kawasaki has one the most read blogs out there. I get to his blog at least once…
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The Book I Hate to Love
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“Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time” (Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz) I’ve…
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To Change the World
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To be a Christian does not mean that we are to change the world, but rather that we…
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Creativity in Movement Building
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In her classic Harvard Business Review article, How to Kill Creativity, Teresa Amabile argues that the three components…
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The Micah Mandate
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I just finished reading George Grant’s The Micah Mandate. Grant argues that the “model for Christian living is…
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