Movement Champion Profile – All Nations
God gave us the dream that within our lifetime, movements of Muslims following Jesus will sweep across the Arab world transforming it from within.
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It Slayed the Momentum of the Methodists
A movement killer is something that exists in the common life of the organization itself–the culture, thinking, and practices–that in effect blocks the inherent potential for growth contained in the system. In systems theory, all living systems are geared for growth and flourishing. They have everything in them needed to maintain life and reproduce healthily. The “killer” therefore is something now resident in the system that is in effect blocking the innate capacity to flourish.
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The Alexander Syndrome: Why 60 is the new 30
by Doug PaulA few years ago, I wrote a short article called “The Alexander Syndrome” that’s been coming back to my mind a lot lately. In fact…I’m not sure I’ve ever been more convinced about an argument than I am about this one.This was the basic premise: At the age of 30, Alexander the Great looked…
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Organic Church
By: Neil ColeI have been a published author and pioneer of organic church movements for 20 years (yeah, I’m officially old). The term “organic” has come to mean many things in church world over those years. Often it has been hijacked from my original ideas and mutated to mean something less than healthy. It has become as…
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Getting Movements Out Of Your Head & Into Your Church
By: Alan HirschOver the last 2 years, I have been delighted to work with a unique group of movement-minded practitioners and thinkers about the next chapter of the missional conversation. Will Mancini, Dave Rhodes, Neil Cole, and myself have been dreaming and designing the process for well over a year now. (Jessie Cruikshank, Nick Boring,…
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How Apostolic Movements Can Change The World
By: Alan HirschThe great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.~ H. Richard NiebuhrForeword from Beyond the Local Church: How Apostolic Movements can Change the World, by Sam Metcalfe & Alan Hirsch.One of the more stimulating books I…
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Grand-Parenting Movements
The larger and more expensive your church is the less likely you will multiply. Addition becomes easier with the momentum of church growth, but multiplication becomes harder.
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Introducing 100 Movements
By: Will ManciniOver the last 2 years, I have been delighted to work with a unique group of movement-minded practitioners and thinkers about the next chapter of the missional conversation. The outcome of those gatherings is a brand new non-profit consultative training organization named 100 Movements.The big idea of 100 Movements is to shift from conversation…
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