Category: Leadership of Movements
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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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Amazing Grace: The Story of William Wilberforce
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On February 23rd, the work of William Wilberforce and his Clapham colleagues in abolishing the English Slave Trade…
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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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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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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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The Team Leader in Movement Building–Part 1
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The most important ingredient in building movements may be the local team leaders. Thus, finding and preparing local…
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Rise and Fall of Movements
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Below are Steve Addison‘s seven lessons from the story of the rise and fall of the Student Christian…
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Disciples who build movements
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I’ve been reflecting some on Milfred Minatrea’s Shaped by God’s Heart: The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches…
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Movement Definitions Part III
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What Kind of Church to Plant Allen Thompson goes on to argue that Redeemer Church’s understanding of "gospel"…
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Movement Definitions Part II
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I’ve been meaning to get back to Allen Thompson’s article on defining movements, found in the June edition…
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Why volunteers wont help us build movements?
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I found the following list on Mark Sanborn’s ezine. Sanborn believes there are five reasons why people “don’t…
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What Volunteers Want
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In an article he did for Christianity Today, Ted Harro suggests the following five things that every volunteer…
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7 Practices of Effective Ministry
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The authors of 7 Practices of Effective Ministry just put their “practices” into an excellent set of podcasts.…
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Movement Definitions
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As a ministry committed to "building spiritual movements," we are constantly wrestling over definitions. How can you hit…
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Movement Building as Cultivation (Part 5)
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In my first post on R&R’s The Missional Leader, I defined leadership as “cultivating or creating an environment…
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Leadership in the Green Zone
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Roxburgh and Romanuk offer the following characteristics of leadership in the Green or Emergent Zone. They argue that…
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Movement Building as “Cultivation of Environments” (Part 3)
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Opt for the Green Zone Roxburgh and Romanuk offer, what they call, The Three Zone Model of Missional…
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The Otherworldly Church
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the following observation about the religious church or movement: We are otherworldly—ever since we hit…
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Movement Building as “Cultivation of Environments” (Part 2)
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An American Medical Association study concludes that, “Cardiac care units where the general mood of the nurses is…
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Movement Building as Cultivation (Part 1)
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I’ve been wrestling with Roxburgh’s and Romanuk’s The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach the World. Over…
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To Change the World by James Davison Hunter, Part 2
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To Change the World (continued) 4. World-changing, Hunter concludes, is most intense when the networks of elites and…
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To Change the World by James Davison Hunter, Part 1
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In an address to the Trinity Forum (June 21-22, 2002), James Davison Hunter offered his perspective on changing…
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Wimber’s Seven Constants
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I took Steve Addison’s advice and read John Wimber’s advice to church planters within the Vineyard movement. I…
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