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Chances are you’re not going to see a church planting movement until you’re willing to go beyond your job description. Some insights on launching a church planting movement from Glenn Townend, president of the Adventist church in Western Australia.
In Acts 6:1-7 we read of racial tensions between Greek and Hebraic widows. The widows from the [...]

What would you do with an accountant who lost $100,000 of your money? You’d probably look for another accountant. What would you do with a leader who lost $100,000 of your denomination’s money? You’d probably promote him.

I often meet with church leaders have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in church planting only to see [...]

Looking for an Aussie winter escape? The 2006 Australian Cell Church Summit, Sunshine Coast Queensland.

While you’re in the area, check out the Pines training centre for church planters.
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in-dig-e-nous: 1. Having originated in and being produced, growing or living naturally in a particular region or environment. 2. Innate, inborn. Syn. Native.Growing indigenous leaders is every true missionary’s greatest challenge. Keith Bateman proposes this ten point plan for (not) producing better indigenous churches. He’s writing out of his fifteen years of missions work in [...]

Don’t miss Allen Thompson’s reflections on church planting movements in the latest edition of the movement.

He’s read the right people and writes concisely. Pass it on to the people you want to influence. It’s time for dreams to become reality.

Church Planting Movements

The church of Jesus Christ exploded with a lot less than we are imploding with.

Erwin McManusBack from two weeks in the US for the CRM worldwide gathering. We welcomed CRM UK, Korea, Africa, the Middle East as new CRM entities led by nationals. The Aussies and Hungarians now have some allies in standing up the [...]

Act as if the spiritual realm exists.Undertake the quest with serious purpose.Seek companionship and spiritual direction.Turn towards the inner world through silence and introversion.Learn the value of genuine fasting.Learn to use the forgotten faculty of the imagination.Keep a journal.Keep a record of dreams.Be honest with yourself.Let your life manifest genuine love.Gird yourself with persistence and [...]

Just arrived home from the CRM Worldwide Conference. More about that next week.

In the meantime every Christian entrepreneur, intrapreneur and church planter should listen to Guy Kawasaki on the Art of the Start. It’s good.

You can download the ppt here.

Assignment for church planters: rewrite Guy’s main points to make them relevant to church planting. Extra [...]

More wisdom from Brenda Ueland on creativity.

(1) “Imagination comes, works, when you are not trying, when you have a peculiar passive clarity.”

(2) “The tragedy is that either they stifle their fire [creative spirit] by not believing in it and using it; or they try to prove to the world and themselves that they have it, [...]

Garr Reynolds at PresentationZen has been reading Brenda Ueland on creativity. Some great insights on a great book.

Here are the first six:

(1) “...the creative power is in all of you if you give it a little time, if you do not always keep it out by hurrying and feeling guilty in times when you should [...]