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Getting Unstuck from Service Land
…address the “What-next?” question. While Christ’s call to follow Him remains unchanged, the context differs in the early 21st century. International students today live in a world shaped by consumerism, technology, and globalism. A preoccupation with stuff is not new to the twenty-first century. However, when combined with globalism and…
A Generational Model for ISM Expansion
…adding one student per semester. When they reach 4 members they subdivide and continue the process. In only 10 years each small group of 2 that subdivides every year turns into 1,024 Christian students all meeting weekly for prayer, accountability and Bible discussion while extending their personal outreach to international…
“They Did Business With You Because of Your Great Wealth of Goods”
…aid that ‘what you win them with you win them to,’ which means, if you win people by entertaining them into the kingdom, you have to keep on entertaining them.”[2] Relating to our context, if you win people through providing material benefits and social perks, you will have to keep…
How Ambassadors for Christ Also Serve the Cause of Diplomacy
…aid. “The real heart of America is in its people outside the DC area. I have learned that the American people are the most generous people in the world and the only ones on this earth who will die for others in the world outside their own country. I've experienced…
The Global International Student Ministry Movement via the Lausanne Movement
…additional ISMs birthed primarily by various campus or para-church ministries, and some denominations. The 80’s ushered in two significant elements to the growth and diversification of the movement: the launch of a North American regional ISM network called the Association of Christian Ministries to Internationals (ACMI) and the development of…
Discipleship Lessons Learned
…aid. 4. Keep the Conversation Going Toward the end of the evening, we asked the guys in the circle if any of them would be interested in meeting together weekly to read God’s Word and learn more about what it had to say. Two of them, Tony and Tommy, said…
Opportunities Abound
…ated to refugees and displaced people. Unless you have been on an information fast, you realize that we are in the largest refugee crisis since the end of WW2. Most of us don’t remember how huge the shifts of population were in Europe in the early 1940s. The churches of…
Equal Opportunity
…aid this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight (Acts 1:8-9). That is all! Jesus left them with the Holy Spirit. He didn’t supply them with funds, donor lists, buildings, property, equipment, and projects. Rather, Jesus gave the disciples the one…
Book Review: Hastening
…aid, I was concerned in the early stages of the book with two things. First, I was concerned with the use of a militaristic theme as a mobilization and training strategy for churches seeking to be engaged in missions. “. . . the only way to complete the mission was…
“Finishing the Task” Helps Participants View New Movements with Clarity
…aid, “Look at the nations and watch—and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” (Hab 1:5) Certainly, researcher Dr. David Garrison’s plenary address at the 2015 “Finishing the Task” (FTT) conference suggested that God…
What Will it Take to See No Place Left
…aid and done—by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. Romans 15:18-19a. Here we see Paul’s goal: to lead the Gentiles to obey God. And we see his methods: words, deeds, power of signs and wonders all empowered by the Holy Spirit. He…
No Place Left as the Benchmark
…aid, “No, a movement is just the beginning. The movement is not the goal. The real goal is what Paul declared in Romans 15—no place left for the gospel to be proclaimed. Every people group, every neighborhood and every ethnic segment with multiplying disciples and churches among them.” A look…
Pursuing the Vision of Bringing Every Family Home
…aid this about Jesus’ parable of the shepherd leaving 99 sheep behind to go after the one lost sheep: “That verse guided me.” Townsend was often questioned about focusing so much effort to translate the Bible for such small tribes. But the joy of the shepherd in recovering one sheep…
No Place Left
…aid and done—by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ is not known, so…
The International Year of the Great Commission
…aid it at the apostles’ feet to make them mobile for mission; 6. (Vs 46) Went fishing to catch two legged fish; 7. (Vs. 46) They cleaned (repentance & baptism) the fish while ‘meaning’ (breaking bread), exorcising and chit-chatting the Gospel. (Vs 47) And the Lord added to their numbers…
From Church to Movement
…addicts, and gang members. And God worked to start DBS and form new believers into reproducing churches. Some Lighthouse members also began studies among farm laborers in a community an hour’s transit from Cape Town. Soon the new disciples there were walking in oppressive heat to pioneer more new groups…
Movements Multiplying Movements
…Addison. Pioneering Movements: Leadership that Multiplies Disciples and Churches (2015: IVP), p.121. [3] Steve Smith. Hastening: No Place Left book ONE (2015: 2414 Ventures). p.254.
Household Churches
…ated building” church are fundamentally different from the kind of “household churches” through which movements flow. In his 1982 article A Church in Every People: Plain Talk About a Difficult Subject,[1] Donald McGavran observed that “perhaps 90 out of 100 missionaries who intend church planting” employ methods that hinder movements…
Hastening “No Place Left” Locally
…aid. “A lot of folks are signing up. Of course, it will take more than a year to finish the whole task, but we’re starting with a one-year commitment. This is the real thing, man. It fits with what we know in our hearts and minds to be right. Christopher…
Gospel Tool:
…aid if you will turn from your brokenness, believe that God raised Him from the dead, and confess Jesus as king of your life, you will be restored back to God’s design! SO I DID THAT! And now…” C draws a line from Jesus to God’s Design and labels it…