Category: Marks of a Movement
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The Honest Worker
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(This 1898 photograph from a souvenir publication shows how Anne Sullivan (at right) “read-spelled” to Helen Keller and…
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The Things of the Lord
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I’ve been re-reading Richard Mouw’s wonderful argument for the “kingdom” in “When the Kings Come Marching in: Isaiah…
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The New Friars
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Scott Bessenecker in his new book The New Friars gives us a picture of how the Spirit of…
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Missionary Agencies vs. Missional Orders
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I’m working at seeing CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ) thru a different set of lenses. John B. Hayes…
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Multiplying Disciples: The Mark of all Movements
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Alan Hirsch’s reminder that disciplemaking is part of the missional DNA–the Apostolic Genius–of all Jesus’ movements struck a…
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Movements Begin at the Fringes
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In the study of the history of missions, one can even be formulaic about asserting that all great…
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Movements: Some New Thoughts (To Me Anyway)
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I’ve been wrestling with john b. hayes’ sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World: Service, Justice and Contemplation…
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The Clapham Circle: Changing the World
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I went to Amazing Grace again last night. I loved it even more. I paid more attention to…
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Avoiding the Curse of Knowledge
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How do leaders avoid the Curse of Knowledge–that inability of experts to communicate their great ideas clearly? They…
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Movement Leaders — Avoiding the Curse of Knowledge
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Having just finished reading a biography of William Wilberforce and a collections of speeches by Martin Luther King,…
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Lessons on Movements from Martin
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My buddy Chip Scivicque got me reading and listening to A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of…
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The Starfish and The Spider Part I
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Exploring the literature on networks and living systems, I recently read The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable…
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Part II: More on Leadership as Convening Conversation
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In light of “network theory” and “living systems theory,” I’m intrigued by the idea of leadership as “convening…
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Movement Leadership as “Convening Conversation”
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Sally Morgenthaler argues that the the next form of ministry leadership will break the Church’s dual addictions to…
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Network Theory and Living Systems Theory
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Alan Hirsch’s new book, The Forgotten Ways, ought to be mandatory reading for anyone interested in movement building.…
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Richard Foster on Movement Building
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In May of 2004, Richard Foster wrote seven reflections … lessons from the 15 year history of Renovare.…
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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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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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