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The Healing Congregation: Total Ministry for the Whole Person
…AID, COVID vaccination is supplied. As you progress through your life cycle, you and your loved ones will have the benefit of premarital counseling, counseling for parents of children to be blessed, youth mentoring, provided by our men’s group, as well as special activities in our "Seniors in Action” group. Our Wholistic…
Principles Gleaned from 20 Years of Catalyzing Movements in Myanmar
…aid, “Preaching crusades don’t catalyze sustainable movements.” I quickly chirped back, “But I just returned from seeing thousands of Filipinos make professions of faith.” George kindly yet firmly pointed out that the Philippines was no longer predominately a pioneer field. I was amazed at not only George’s depth of content,…
George Patterson, 1932–2022 A Daughter’s Testimony
…aid and titled leaders in larger churches. None of them wanted to stay in the countryside and help lead the small struggling churches that couldn’t pay them much or give them status. During that time my father had the privilege to intersect briefly with Ralph Winter's work in Guatemala…
God’s Mission Is a Battle for Hearts and Minds
…aid before, passive listening is not enough for this essential confrontation process to take place. Each of us must confront the lies in our worldview and replace those lies with the truth. Then we must help others to do the same. The future of God’s mission on Earth will hinge…
Transformation in Community: Discerning Innovative Ways Forward in Missions
…aid, “If we take this step to consider these things, we will be changed people. This process will change us. Is that okay with us?” It is not enough just to think differently. The barriers to the gospel at the frontiers of mission are deeply spiritual, in addition to all…
Becoming the Kind of Person God Can Use to Launch Movements— Part 1
…aid, “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me…” (Matt. 5:11 NIV) Movement leaders and catalysts understand that their life is not their own and that persecution is normal. They have understood and accepted Jesus’ command to…
North American Kingdom Movement Strategies Apart From a Local Church
…attached to the church and is more like a Bible study because everyone is still involved in the church building and activities. 2016 Nathan starts a few discipleship groups in Florida, but they all fail to continue on after the first two years as the people were not obedient to…
How Disciple-Makers Relate to Ever-Present Global Disruptions
…aid, “I feel that the fires in Australia and the disruption of COVID-19 are just the beginning. We will experience many more disruptions. We need to be ready. We can’t let these stop us from obeying God’s mandate to make disciples.” I didn’t particularly like hearing this. Be ready for…
Post-Disaster Sustainability and Spiritual Multiplication
…aid members in almost every area in our country was having trouble buying food. These hand-to-mouth wage-earners have no savings and struggle economically if they miss just three weeks of work. Even farmers are having trouble because they cannot sell their products. These are going to waste, for buyers don’t…
“Beyond Christianity” 10 Years Later
…attitudes and practices. While a divide between individuals and groups holding to these diverse positions remains, the emergence of BtD is a positive development which far exceeded my vision in 2010! The Church Ten years ago, I focused primarily on the point that believers in Jesus in movements outside of…
The Slippery Slide of Starting Movements
…aid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’? 31Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able…
Missionaries vs. The Opium Industry
…aid him....5 Missionaries sought to change public opinion of opium. Many of the missionary doctors working in China had an intimate understanding of the tragic effect opium had on their patients. The anti-opium league in Great Britain worked with these missionary doctors to produce a pamphlet that would galvanize anti-opium…
Hunting the Lion
…aid to them, “I will help you get rid of the beasts.” Dr. Livingstone was speaking to the men of the Bakhatla tribe in Africa about a pride of lions which were attacking their cattle in great numbers, with no fear of man, leading the tribe to starvation. The tribe…
The Reality of Weeds
…attack movements of the kingdom and 2) disillusion us or cause us to become jaded when evaluating movements. For some reason, we develop this false idea that a movement means an absence of problems. Nowhere is that implied in Scripture. Rather it is usually the opposite: Jesus puts this reality…
The Father Who Names the Nations
…aid. Construction is underway: “...Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit” (2:20–22). Paul adds this doxology, which…
Finding “Fourth-Soil” People: Jesus’ Modus Operandi for Establishing a Movement
…Attitude, Proclamation and Analysis One clear action and two implicit actions emerge from the parable. The first implicit action involves maintaining a positive attitude of a coming harvest (not a distant future harvest, but an immediate harvest). This attitude within Jesus appears when He sends out the seventy-two disciples, “The…
God’s Gift of Surprising Proximate Strategies
…aid, ‘Go into all the world’ (Mk. 16:15) but that task remains undone for over 1,300 people groups who have never in the history of Christianity had any form of gospel witness. They are referred to as Unengaged Unreached People Groups (UUPGs). Unreached People Groups (UPGs) are those peoples who…
Are Movements the Seeds of a Second Reformation?
…attacks they recently endured. A revolution is unfolding in the Church—perhaps even a second Reformation. Nearly 500 years ago (1517) Martin Luther ignited the Protestant Reformation with his 95 theses. This issue of MF documents a change of similar significance spreading among sending-base churches, coming this time through the application…
Movements Without Women?
…attacks they have recently endured. R. Nyman compiled more worthy material by and about women CPM catalysts than we could fit in print. Be sure to look on-line for bonus articles! Winning or Losing? While followers of Jesus are growing in numbers and as a percentage of world population, so…
New Era: Embracing a New Era in the Frontier Mission Movement
…aid, “You imams are responsible before Allah. The entire world—I say it again, the entire world—is waiting for your next move because this umma (Muslim world) is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands…. We have to think hard…