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Once you have made the world an end and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours.

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Missionary and church planting movements that have made, and are making, history.
Read the case studies.Distill the learning.Follow their example.Change the world.Or at least make a mess.
“How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)” (Thomas Cahill)

“Wesley and the People Called Methodists” (Richard P. Heitzenrater)

“A Cambridge movement” (John Charles Pollock) If there are no copies on Amazon [...]

“St. Patrick of Ireland : A Biography” (Philip Freeman)

“Here I Stand : A Life of Martin Luther” (Roland H. Bainton)

“Ignatius Loyola: A Biography of the Founder of the Jesuits” (Phillip Caraman)

“Wesley the Preacher” (John Pollock)

“Blood and Fire : William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army” (Roy Hattersley)

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April 9, this year marks one hundred years since the Azusa Street Revival which launched Pentecostalism as a dynamic movement.

Zero to half a billion in 100 years is not a bad record for a movement.

Don’t try and understand Pentecostalism and it’s significance simply by watching Christian TV. The vast majority of Pentecostals are from the [...]

Any movement which has benefited society in the long haul has at its core a group of people committed to a cause that they consider greater than themselves and to one another as friends.

James McGregor Burnsvia Sam Metcalf with some provocative questions.

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Scot McKnight has been doing thinking and writing on Emerging Church Fad or Future?

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Why aren’t we seeing church multiplication spread rapidly in Western cultures the way it does in some parts of Asia and the Global South?

All we can do from this side of heaven is guess. At I have read and pondered the wisdom of “Barney” on this matter and find his points of explanation to [...]

Alan Hirsch has been hanging out with Sam Metcalf.

Check out Sam’s notes on Alan’s rambling thoughts on movements.
Church Planting Movements

Seven books from the world of business and science with implications for church planting movements.

“Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It” (Ichak Adizes)

“Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)” (Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras)

“Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… [...]

From OnMovements: The Clapham Sect–A Company of Friends

An excellent post on the Clapham Sect, an evangelical movement led by William Wilberforce.

One of the sources they reference is also available: William Wilberforce and His Circle of Friends by Richard L. Gathro.

According to Gathro here’s what characterized this group of friends who changed the world:

They shared a [...]