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The Bhojpuri Movement Transforming Social Dynamics
…aids and killing sprees, they began leading the way to plant churches. This transformation has continued to the present, as 19 former area commanders of militia groups have now accepted Christ and become church planters. So the Church Planting Movement impacted the caste war and helped bring peace instead of…
A Still Thriving Middle-aged Movement:
…aid it would also turn out to be a fad. But God is so good! Multiplication continues, and we see there’s nothing inevitable about a movement ending or turning into traditional churches. Dave: Back in the 1990s not many people were using the term “CPM.” When this ministry among the…
An Obituary for the American Church
…aid this: If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
How Cultures Move from Poverty to Prosperity
…attitudes of those who own it and of everyone else, who must respect it. Titled property allows land to become capital, which can be priced, compared and traded for other goods in a market. As property, that land can become collateral for a business loan, or inspiration for a farmer…
Manna and the Land: A Question of Timing
…aid. They were isolated and homeless. They were facing a terrifying new world. And God responds in love, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you… and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord.” (Exod. 16:4, 6) Manna from Heaven Only a few…
The DMM Price Tag
…aid in tears? In emotional stress due to betrayal and persecution? Or the cost that comes with constant spiritual warfare? I wish I could tell you that DMMs are free. Salvation is free. But there is a price we must pay to see that free salvation come to thousands of…
A Desire That Would Not Die
…attacks, the translation team was already working from several locations. Most of the team members were based in Juba, the capital city of South Sudan. Bishop Seme lived approximately 150 miles away in Panyana, an important church center in the Keliko homeland. He served part-time as a translator and advisor,…
Bible Translation as We Approach 2025
…audacious, aggressive, seemingly impossible goal of having a Bible translation project underway in every language by the year 2025. And they invited others to join in this vision. Believing that with God nothing is impossible, and when He calls, He also equips, Vision 2025 was launched. Together we rekindled our…
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (88 months)
…aid, “Nobody taught us this -- we just learned about movements from the Holy Spirit!” God loves variety. Each and every Church Planting Movement is beautifully unique. Common Outcomes At the same time, we can identify common principles and results. Once a CPM has started – regardless of the approach…
Our Organic Gospel and Kingdom: God Intends for Us to Multiply
…aid the growth and flourishing of the exponential organic nature of God’s kingdom. We can either act like the seed that fell on rocky ground and produce little or be like the seed that fell on the fourth soil, the good soil, and produce a 30, 60 or 100-fold crop.…
24:14 Coalition Update
…Addis Ababa. So, it was fitting that 30 movement leaders from around Africa gathered in this capital city of Ethiopia to discuss forming a 24:14 Africa team. Attendees included movement leaders representing over 100 Church-Planting Movements, as well as key mission leaders, church and church network leaders, denominational leaders, researchers,…
Finding “Fourth-Soil” People: American Context
…awaits a movement catalyst. Jesus not only provided us His plan for finding fourth-soil individuals; He modeled it in pre-Pentecost Galilee. Let’s apply lessons learned from Jesus and his ministry to the U.S. context and use all the tools and resources available to help missionaries find Fourth-Soil People among the…
Kingdom Kernels: Death: the Spiritual Triggering Effect
…aid, it is costly to do God’s bidding—dying to self, beatings, ridicule, shipwrecks, imprisonment, betrayal, even physical death. Paul described this endurance by the same term: We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;…
Hope for Autism and Developmental Disabilities in the DPRK
…aid that this was the happiest she had ever seen her son. Another mom of an eight-year-old boy with ASD openly shared her struggles of raising a child with special needs. Her despair turned to hope as the therapists listened to her, encouraged her, and reassured her that she is…
A Church in Every People
…aid to the slave, “Be a better slave, “ He said to the slave owner, “Be a better master.” Paul also said in that famous passage emphasizing unity, “There is no male or female.” Nevertheless Christians, in their boarding schools and orphanages, continue to sleep boys and girls in separate…
Why Not Simple?
…aid, “Our biggest challenge is from other Christians.” I recently edited a case from Asia that said: “Although this country is generally hostile to the gospel, we found that the biggest trouble, by far, came from traditional Christian leaders. They caused much confusion in the new churches as they regularly…
24:14, The Best Hope for Reaching All Peoples. Are You In?
…adds the strengths of each organization to every other one who share the common commitments and goals of the 24:14 coalition. The goal of 24:14 is to foster movements of discipleship and church planting in every unreached people group by 2025. If successful, 24:14 could be the fulfillment of Ralph…
THE BRUTAL FACTS
…aid of cross-cultural missionaries. Joshua Project lists around 7,000 unreached groups totaling 3.15 billion people which is 42% of the world. Finally, unengaged groups are those lacking any engagement by a church planting team. Today, there are 1,510 such groups: the number has been declining since its introduction in 1999…
GOD IS USING MOVEMENTS
…attack. Focus on reaching households, not individuals. Use Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) for both pre-churches and churches. Rechargeable inexpensive speakers with story sets on memory cards were extremely helpful, empowering illiterate and semi-literate people to plant churches through listening to scripture. Roughly half of the churches have been planted through…