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Gary Hourigan referred to Bob Logan’s 10 essentials of a church multiplication movement.

Here’s the list:
Spiritual dynamicsShared visionHealthy parenting churchesTraining church plantersAssessing church plantersAttracting church plantersCoaching church plantersFunding church multiplicationPlanning church multiplicationDeveloping multiplying networksYou’ll need to buy the book to unpack them: Be Fruitful and Multiply

Bob has designed his online resources at CoachNet around these essentials. [...]

Recently caught up with Gary Hourigan at the next1000 Summit. Gary’s learning about church planting movements by doing it. So he seemed a good candidate for 10 Questions. . .

1. What’s your background?

Back in 1983 my wife Terri and I were feeling the pressures of life. She met an old friend who invited her to [...]

Off to Sweden to speak at Pionjär (Pioneer) 07. It’s their national church planting conference. If you know Sweden it’s down south in Malmo, not far from Copenhagen.

I’m going via London to catch up with Ian and Verlie Hamilton of CRM UK and drop in on refresh at St Mary’s London.

If you’ll be at either [...]

Now I’ve seen it all. A church planting strategy built around wrestling.

Read the full story on the next1000 blog.

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No one can obtain knowledge of ultimate things who fails to recognize what the first great challenge that comes to him as a human being is not to know something but to be something.

John MackayAbout a decade ago I was hanging out with a mate drinking coffee. We both agreed, more of the same was [...]

Photo: Clintons and Addisons at the CRM World Conference 2006

The folks at Movement Planting University have done us a favour and summarized Bobby Clinton’s lessons for leaders who want to finish well.

Here are the main points but make sure you read the whole thing. No-one knows leadership development like St Bobby Clinton.

Lifetime perspective: effective [...]

Some great advice for CEOs and for movement leaders.

The 5 Temptations of a CEO

1. Choosing status over results
Is it a personal failure for you if your organization fails? It better be. Will you put your career on the line for the team, for the project or is your status and fame more important?

2. [...]