Category: Leadership of Movements
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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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Required Reading: Creating a Better Hour
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I recently began reading "Creating the Better Hour: Lessons from William Wilberforce" (Stroud & Hall Publishers) and am…
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Movement Leadership
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Dan McCarthy posted the following summary of best advice on leadership taken from 136 leaders. He distilled his…
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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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Movement Leadership as a Posture: Part III
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Tim Keel’s Postures of Leadership (Part I, Part II) 6. A Posture of Trust: From Defensiveness to Creativity…
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Movement Leadership as a Posture: Part II
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Tim Keel’s Postures of Leadership (see Part I ): 4. A Posture of Stillness: From Preparation to Meditation…
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Movement Leadership as a Posture: Part I
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I recently finished Tim Keel’s "Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos" and loved his…
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Some Line of Usefulness: Part II
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Do all leaders sense that God has given them an assignment? Are all movement leaders like Jeremiah who…
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Bonhoeffer at Christmas
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Occasionally Bonhoeffer waxes poetic. I love this quote, which I read from his A Testament of Freedom. Movement…
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Some Line of Usefulness
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Samuel Wilberforce received the following advice from his “then famous” father, William Wilberforce. The father, concerned for his…
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A Network Mindset
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Yet another post from Forces for Good. The authors argued that high impact nonprofits nurture networks. A network…
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Inspire Evangelists
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In Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, Crutchfield and Grant argue that high-impact nonprofits excel…
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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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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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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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Four Secrets of Great Team Leadership
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Dave Ferguson, lead pastor at Community Christian Church, wrote an excellent article on the secrets of great team…
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Accidental Creative
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I recently discovered this podcast. I’m making listening to it a weekly habit. I even paid the membership…
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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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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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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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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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