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I am enjoying Greg Finke’s book “Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary.”  Here are a few highlights.  (Warning: this is not a book that you can read and not implement… it will challenge you to make some real-life changes.) “Jesus is in charge of ripening people. Our job is to…

We tend to honor those ventures that are big and impressive by outward measurements.  We are impressed by Apple and Microsoft for starting in garages and becoming giants in their industry.  Those companies that do not succeed (anyone remember the Commodore 64?) are simply dismissed as ‘less than’ and their contributions virtually ignored. In many…

Just completing two months in Africa has me reflecting, once again, on the nature of the living, organic church.  We see spiritual reproduction in a much more natural fashion there than we do here at home (speaking personally).  Yet, the dynamics of the living church are the same which gives me hope that, in our…

From my book, The Simple House Church Revolution: The church is meant to be the expression of Christ’s life and power on earth. This can only take place as: We move out of “comfy Christianity” into the daring adventure of following Jesus. We replace our “come-structures” with “go-structures” We recapture the “going” lifestyle Comfy Christianity…

From my book, The Simple House Church Revolution: Nevertheless, by the time I felt called to pastor a church, I no longer questioned how church was done. We started with a building and a core group of Christians. We invited, and planned, and organized, and put together Sunday events. We built more buildings and started…

As I head off to Africa this week, one of the messages on my heart is simply intimacy:  intimacy with God as the heart and soul of all that we are and all that we do.  Organic expressions of church come out of a truly life-giving, organically connected heart with Jesus.  It is always Jesus…

Mission Frontiers has some excellent articles, this month, on reproducing disciples in the context of the U.S.  It is exciting to see these principles implemented in Western contexts that have had such an impact throughout the rest of the world. Curtis Sergeant shares an article entitled Growing U.S. Movements to the Lost and the Unreached:…

Following is a guest post by Felicity Dale, author of the new book "The Black Swan Effect."  Whether we are talking about reproducing churches in our own region or engaging in missions throughout the world, it is vital that women are championed and take their place at the forefront of God's Kingdom work.  Felicity has been doing this…

Luke 10 provides the clearest steps for initiating new churches and, even, starting new movements. Here are some key comments from this passage: 1. Go where Jesus sends you.  Jesus sent the disciples out, instructed them where to go, and told them he would be following up in those places personally.  This pre-supposes that we have…

My friends over at Newforms Resources have put together a wonderful video that uses a game format to describe the simple, powerful principles of disciple making movements.  This is a wonderfully precise and informative vid: