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As I never tire of telling my kids — life IS relationships.

The third characteristic of dynamic movements: Contagious Relationships.mp3.

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Following up on 0 to 500,000,000 in 100 here’s some more wisdom from Allan Anderson on The Origins of Pentecostalism and its Global Spread

Here’s his homepage with other online articles.

Here’s his latest book. Off to the mountains this weekend with our home group. I’ll be taking it with me.

“An Introduction to Pentecostalism : Global Charismatic [...]

April 9, this year marks one hundred years since the Azusa Street Revival which launched Pentecostalism as a dynamic movement.

Zero to half a billion in 100 years is not a bad record for a movement.

Don’t try and understand Pentecostalism and it’s significance simply by watching Christian TV. The vast majority of Pentecostals are from the [...]

Any movement which has benefited society in the long haul has at its core a group of people committed to a cause that they consider greater than themselves and to one another as friends.

James McGregor Burnsvia Sam Metcalf with some provocative questions.

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Scot McKnight has been doing thinking and writing on Emerging Church Fad or Future?

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Series: Why don’t we see dynamic church planting movements in the West of the same magnitude that we are see in many parts of the developing world?

Just in from Alan Hirsch:

Consumerism is a major problem—largely for discipleship, but discipleship is needed before any movement can take place.Hyper-reality: people live in a consumerist paradise. [...]

We’ve had some good input lately on why we’re not seeing church planting movement in the developing world to the same degree we’re seeing in the global south.

If that’s the case we need to find something to do while nothing’s happening.

Here’s 20 suggestions of what to do while we’re not multiplying churches.

Call yourself an apostle. [...]

Series: Why don’t we see dynamic church planting movements in the West of the same magnitude that we are see in many parts of the developing world?

I believe that one part of the equation is that in almost every case they are starting fresh – among the unreached. Our hide-bound traditional church cultures are a [...]

Series: Why don’t we see dynamic church planting movements in the West of the same magnitude that we are see in many parts of the developing world?

From Rick Paynter: Western Christians face unique circumstances that work against spirituality and hence against dynamic church planting.

My top three:
Centuries of innoculation to the gospel and causing “Churchianity.”Social diseases—materialism, [...]

Why aren’t we seeing church multiplication spread rapidly in Western cultures the way it does in some parts of Asia and the Global South?

All we can do from this side of heaven is guess. At I have read and pondered the wisdom of “Barney” on this matter and find his points of explanation to [...]