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1. Question: Why did you write Forgotten Ways?

Answer: To cultivate an apostlic imagination and practice for the 21st century church.

I was fascinated with the question of what makes an apostolic movement tick? How did they do it? I ended up exposed to the phenomenon of the apostolic church in it’s elemental forms—no resources [...]

The Greeks have a saying, “No one steps into the same river twice.”

I stepped back twenty years last Sunday. February 22, 1987 was the first service of the first church Michelle and I planted. We left three years later to plant again.

Last Sunday Knox Baptist Community Church invited me back for their annivesary.

Twenty years ago [...]

My copy of Dave Ferguson’s the Big Idea just arrived. Looking forward to reading it.

Visit the Big Idea blog to find out more about the book and download his podcasts.

“The Big Idea: Focus the Message-multiply the Impact (The Leadership Network Innovation Series)” (Dave Ferguson, Eric Bramlett, Jon Ferguson)
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Martin Robinson’s account of the rise and fall of a national church planting movement in Britain: What happened? and Why?.

BTW no photo of Martin this time as I’m sure it’s bad luck to have three bald guys in a row. Four counting Bozo the clown.

Church Planting MovementsMartin Robinson

Excellent post by Sam Metcalf on Donald McGavaran, “father” of the Church Growth Movement: McGavran and Church Growth

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Christianity Today is carrying a disturbing report of deep rooted and systemic problems within the Calvary Chapel movement founded by Chuck Smith.

See: Day of Reckoning: Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel face an uncertain future.

According to CT a once dynamic church planting movement of over 1000 churches is in serious trouble. Why? Sounds like the misuse [...]

I’m wondering around in the break and I bump into Richard. It’s a church planting conference so I ask him the obvious question: “What’s your interest in church planting?”

He’s an American missionary based in Japan. He’s a music missionary.

I’d never met a music missionary before. Then it got even stranger. This guy has a speciality, [...]

Chris Marantika

One of my favourite places in Southern California is Claremont. It’s a leafy green university town east of Los Angeles.

Peter Drucker spent much of his career teaching at the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. He tells this story of how they were built.
In the 1920s, the President of Pomona College, the mother college of the [...]

Here’s a checklist I’ve created as a companion to the next1000 ebook on church planting movements.

Check out the checklist, use it and let me know what you think of it.

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