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Liam Glover at NCD Australia is doing some thinking on how NCD can be applied to church planting. Liam knows his NCD and he’s planted a church. He’s running training events in Queensland in August and October, 2006.

Here’s the link: NxCD

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Mark Driscoll on church planting trends. . .

One result of the increasing interest in missionally engaging mainstream culture by the church is a growing interest in church planting. Subsequently, new church planting networks are rising up. In April, I had the pleasure of being one of the keynote speakers at the Risk the Ride national [...]

In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No short cut exists.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of the machine age. It is [...]

According to John Kotter this is what transformational leaders do:
1. Establish a Sense of Urgency
2. Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition
3. Create a Vision
4. Communicate the Vision
5. Empower Others to Act on the Vision
6. Plan for and Create Short-Term Wins
7. Consolidate Improvements and Produce Still More Change
8. Institutionalize New ApproachesMake sure you read the full [...]

Which of these two realities describes your context?

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior.
Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

Dee Hock quoted in “Getting Things Done” (David Allen), 68.Your answer can reveal where you are on the movement lifecycle.

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4MAT has been the best hands on paradigm for helping people learn that I’ve ever come across.

If you can get to Melbourne in August here’s a chance to do the training with my 4MAT sensai, John Rietveld.

Click here to download the 4MAT promo.

Take a listen to Sam Metcalf of CRM see what you can learn about how founders shape the heart of a movement by being the message.

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Off the top of my head, here’s the seven best internet resources on movements I can think of. They are in alphabetical order and they are free.

1. Roland Allen, The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And the Causes Which Hinder It

2. Allan Anderson, Towards a Pentecostal Missiology for the Majority World

3. David Garrison, Church Planting [...]

Alan Hirsch is right: Martin Luther’s record of anti-semitism was deplorable.

Towards the end of his life in, “On the Jews and their Lies” (1543), he wrote:

Jews’ synagogues should be set on fire, prayerbooks destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes “smashed and destroyed,” property seized, money confiscated, and that these “poisonous envenomed worms” be drafted into [...]

Bob Logan has a new book out on church planting movements. I haven’t read it yet but anything Bob does will be good.

Ed Stetzer has read the book and this is what he thinks:

There is little that is done in North American church planting leadership that was not developed or influenced by Bob Logan. [...]