» 5. Adaptive methods

Movements are contagious. They have a cause that spreads like a virus.

Here’s what Chip and Dan Heath have to say about making ideas stick.
1. Simplicity. To strip an idea down to its core, we must be masters of exclusion. We must relentlessly prioritize. Saying something short is not the mission—sound bites are [...]

Wayne Pickford believes, “Wrestling is the opera of the working class.”

Wrestling is an important part of his strategy for reaching working class people in the steel mill town of Berkley, NSW.

That’s Wayne on the right just about to drive the other guy’s head into the canvas.

You can read about that part of his story in: [...]

Small church, mega church, program church, organic church—what form of church is most effective. Wrong question says David Watson. You don’t conquer a swamp with tanks. You adapt your strategy to the context.
When I first went to India almost 20 years ago, a very wise worker said to me, “You can’t change Indian culture; you [...]

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As we saw in Aztec collapse, while it took just two years for the Spanish to conquer the mighty Aztec and Inca civilizations, the Apaches successfully held off the Spanish for 200 years.

According to Tom Nevins the difference lay in the way the Apaches were organized as a society. The Apaches withstood the [...]

Almost five hundred years ago, Hernando Cortez walked into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and presented their leader, Montezuma II with an ultimatum. Give me your gold or you’ll die.

Cortex had been amazed by the great highways leading to the city, it’s complex aqueducts, sheer size and beauty of it’s temples and pyramids.

He [...]

Following up on the post on SOAP, here are five more examples of adaptive methods.

1. Alpha

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I know of factory workers in China and yuppies in London are coming to faith through Alpha

It’s everywhere—152 countries, 21,000 churches, 80% of the prisons in Britain. Four million people of all ages have [...]

Our home group kicked off for the year last night. We share the leadership around and I was on.

We’re working through Philippians. So I pulled out some SOAP. It’s a simple Bible study method developed by Wayne Cordeiro and picked up by churches all over the place.

SOAP = Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer. more

We had a [...]

According to Seth Godin, small is the new BIG. Find out more in this free download introducing his new book on the subject.

More downloads here.

A key principle and a must read for church planters (the guys who do stuff) and movement strategists (the guys who talk about the guys who do stuff).

“Small Is the New [...]

A movement is held together by a common cause. That’s why movements find it so much easier to adapt their methods to the needs of the hour.

In eighteenth century Industrial Britain, John Wesley considered it a sin for anyone to get saved in anywhere but a church. When he was excluded from preaching in various [...]