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Scripture Hammer Trainings

10/14/2021

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As we immerse ourselves in the story of the scriptures, we allow the Holy Spirit to use them to shape our view of the world, of ministry and of ourselves.  Scripture hammer trainings allow a trainer to step out of the way and allow the Bible to do the heavy lifting of the training.  They require little charism on the part of the trainer, are hard to argue with and place a tool in the hands of those we are training that is immediately reproducible.

The basic idea is to create a list of scriptures that all point toward the basic Biblical principle or lesson you are wanting your trainees to grasp.  A scripture hammer study is best done in groups of 2-5 and then debriefed as a group.  You can create your own for any topic you'd like to train on. 

I've created a one page handout with six scripture hammer studies that I've learned from others and that I've been using to train.  The focus of these particular studies are:
  • Discovering the Father's Heart
  • Gospel Conversation Hammer
  • Discovering the Person of Peace Principle
  • Discovering the Relational Network
  • Discovering Obedience in Scripture
  • Discovering Disciple Making Prayer
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[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SIX STUDIES]

I've written previously about a few of these topic and you can check those out at the links below:
  • The Father's Heart
  • Person of Peace
  • Disciple Making Prayer
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The Five Commitments of a  Disciple of Jesus

6/8/2020

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In the 18th chapter of the book of Luke, Jesus encounters the rich young ruler.  If you’ve been a follower of Christ for long, it is probably a familiar story.  If not, stop and read it here.  

A devout man approaches Jesus wondering what he must do to be saved.  Jesus walks through the commandments - have you obeyed these?  The man replies confidently that he has kept the commands all of his life.  And then Jesus does a curious thing.  He asks the man to do one more thing: sell all that you possess and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.

The story follows that, because the man was very wealthy he became very sad and presumably, walked away.  Following Jesus is a tall order.

My friend Justin uses this story in trainings to highlight the reality that Jesus isn’t looking for lukewarm Christians.  This isn’t the only time that Jesus’ words and teaching drive away potential followers.  There’s that crazy scene in John 6 where “many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.”  Jesus is looking for committed disciples.  He will build his kingdom not with crowds but with dedicated disciples.  While the world yearns for numbers, Jesus is looking for committed men and women.  

Justin lays out what this commitment might look like using the great commission. He draws out five commitments from the passage and they provide a helpful rubric through which I can reflect on my own heart.  I think they will be helpful for you as well.  
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
                                         -- Matthew 28:18-20
Five Commitments To Be A Disciple of Jesus
  1. Authority - Are you willing to submit everything to the authority of Jesus?
  2. Go - Are you willing to go anywhere to make disciples for Jesus?
  3. Baptize - Are you willing to baptize new believers?
  4. Teach Obedience - Are you willing to teach new believers to obey everything that Jesus has commanded?
  5. Presence - Are you willing to daily abide in Christ?

It starts with our willingness and commitment.  If you are a leader, a good question to ask first is, "Am I willing?" but the next question has to be, "Are the people I am investing in willing?"  Are they committed disciples or merely lukewarm attendees.  You can fill the pews with the latter but Jesus wants to transform your community, your city, your state and nation - he will turn the world upside down with unschooled, ordinary men and women if they will commit themselves to living the surrendered life and being with Jesus.

As we answer this question we can begin working toward the next question as well:  Are they able?
  • Do they know how to submit to Jesus' authority?  If not, can you train them?
  • Do they know how to go to the lost?  If not, can you train them?
  • Do they know how to baptize new believers?  If not, can you train them?
  • Do they know how to make disciples by teaching others to obey Jesus?  If not, can you train them?
  • Do they know  how to abide in Jesus?  If not, can you train them?

​It is no mistake that Jesus bookends his commission with authority and presence.   I can do much in my own power but Jesus reminds me that unless I live the surrendered life which I can only do if I abide in Him and experience His presence, little of what I do will have any eternal impact.
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Justin leads a great ministry called Primary. He would love to come alongside you and coach you and your fellowship into the committed life of disciple making.  Contact Justin
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How to Pray for One Hour

5/11/2020

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For most of my life I’ve wanted to improve my prayer life.  Having read the biographies of many great men and women of God and observing the Biblical examples from Jesus to Moses to the apostles, I’ve always known that prayer was an important part of the life of the disciple of Jesus.  And for most of my life, I’ve not lived up to my own desires to pray more.

The reality is that my knowledge of the importance of prayer has not yet led to a default toward prayer.  But I want it to.


Curtis Sergeant introduced me to a helpful tool to improve my prayer life, helping me to pray for one hour at a time.  I don’t use it often enough but because it is a helpful tool, I’ll be adding it to the Everywhere to Everywhere resource page.  The resource is called The Prayer Wheel and it is a part of the Zume Free Online Training.

The prayer wheel allows you to pray in five minute increments for one hour.  You will need some sort of timing device (Zume Timer) that you can set to let you know when five minutes is up so you can move on to the next section for prayer.
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THE BASIC PRAYER WHEEL OUTLINE
  • PRAISE: Spend time praising God for who He is.
  • WAITING: Spend time silently waiting on God.  Just quiet your heart and wait.
  • CONFESSION: Spend time confessing sin and all that hinders your relationship with God.
  • READ THE WORD: Spend time reading the word of God.  
  • PETITION: Spend time praying general prayers of blessing and protection for yourself, family & others.
  • INTERCEDE: Spend time praying specifically for one or two people or issues.
  • PRAY THE WORD: Go back to the scripture you read.  Read a verse and then pray the essence of that verse back to God.
  • THANKSGIVING: Spend time thanking God for all of His blessings and actions in your life.
  • SINGING: Spend time singing a favorite hymn or play a worship song on youtube.
  • MEDITATE: Spend time meditating on one aspect of God, a phrase of scripture or a word or phrase  from a worship song.
  • LISTEN: Spend time listening to what the Holy Spirit might be wanting to say to you through this time.  Have a notebook and pen handy to write down anything you hear from God.
  • PRAISE: End your time praising God.

I have created a simple bookmark so that you can carry the prayer wheel with you where ever you go.  Set aside an hour and spend it in prayer with the Prayer Wheel as your guide.

Download the Prayer Wheel Bookmark


I hope that you will find the prayer wheel a helpful tool for increasing your prayer life and your ability to hear from the Holy Spirit.  It has been in many ways a helpful training tool for me but it will only help you if you try it out and apply it.  

Learn more about the Prayer Wheel from others:
  • More Disciples
  • Zume Tool Kit
  • Zume Timer
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5 things you can do to join in God’s global purpose

4/24/2020

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I remember growing up, my grandmother would tell stories of the waning days of the Great Depression and the first years of World War II.  I was captivated by the way she and the whole country seemed to respond to the crisis of war and depression.  She told stories not only of the young men who willingly signed up to defend freedom but also of the ways those who stayed behind stepped up to serve, sacrificially rationing and growing gardens and doing anything they could to support the war effort.  Those stories left a longing in me to live a purposeful life of sacrifice and meaning.
  

The Covid-19 pandemic is our crisis.  For many of us, we are looking for purposeful ways to respond.  Somehow, “stay at home and watch Netflix” just doesn’t seem all that meaningful, even though we know it is the best thing to do (at least the stay at home part).

As followers of Christ then, what are the ways we can respond that are meaningful and in partnership with the mission of God.  Nearly six billion people in our world do not yet call themselves Christians and over two billion don’t even have access to an opportunity to hear the gospel.  Here are five different ways you can be a part of God’s global mission, even as you stay at home.

LEARN
As the global pause button continues to be depressed, take the extra time you have to learn more about God’s mission and how you can be a part of it.  Here are several ideas:
  • Crescent Project’s Online Bridges Study
  • OMF’s Six Ways to Reach God’s World
  • ​Beyond's Nugget Trainings
  • Multiplication Concepts Training Videos
  • 7 Books to Fuel the Missions Fire

ENCOURAGE

Isolation and loneliness are real issues in a time of pandemic.  I trust you are already doing your part to discover creative ways to encourage those in your neighborhood, your church family and your immediate family.  But missionaries and our global brothers and sisters in Christ are also isolated in times like these.  Here are a few ideas for encouraging them.
  • Write a letter to a Missionary - find out who the missionaries your church supports and consider writing them a letter or sending them an email.  Maybe even send them a gift card for iTunes or Amazon.
  • Write a letter to persecuted Christians.  You can learn how at Open Doors International.
  • Send Bibles to Believers in Restricted nations. Partner with Voice of the Martyrs to send a Bible to countries where Bibles are difficult to access.

PRAY

Too often, followers of Jesus underestimate the power of prayer.  It seems that in the pandemic and the forced slowing of life, prayer would be the greatest response would could give to the Lord.  Here are a number of resources to help you pray more.
  • Ramadan Prayer - Today (April 24, 2020) marks the first day of Ramadan in the Muslim world.  Sign up for Prayercast’s 30 Day Ramadan Prayer email series.
  • Develop a personal prayer strategy. 
  • Learn from the leading edge of Paul’s disciple making strategy. 

GO

Mission trips have been canceled, missionaries have had to return from the field and stay at home orders abound across the globe and yet the opportunity to go into the Muslim world has never been greater.  Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, more people on every continent are home bound than ever in world history.  They are isolated, alone, and wondering what tomorrow will hold. Hundreds of thousands of young Muslim men and women who speak English are also sheltering in their homes, smartphone in hand, surfing the Internet in search of answers, hope and friendship.
  

What if they met you?

Volunteer with Embassy and they will teach you how to connect online with Muslims in difficult to access nations.  You will almost certainly be the first follower of Jesus they have ever met.  

Sign up for a free one hour introductory training or stop by the Embassy website to learn more.

FILTER

We live in a media saturated world.  Messages come fast and furious from every device we own and many are wondering if we can trust any of the news we hear.  How do we filter through all the nose? 

The reality is that we are all being discipled - being formed -  by the messages that dominate our days.  Because of this it is imperative that we shut off the noise and immerse ourselves in the word of God.  As we do this, the word of God will increasingly become the filter through which all other messages have to pass. 

If the dominant source of messages in our day is our favorite right leaning or left leaning news outlet, it will become the filter, even filtering the way we read the Bible. 

Nobody is making you listen to the news or keep scrolling through your Facebook feed.  Nobody is forcing you to not read your Bible.  It’s a choice we all have to make. We have an opportunity to filter what we read, hear and see.

As we do that and as we prayerfully seek God’s direction each day we will find the things we can do in this season of global pandemic and God will use us in his global purposes.  
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Be With Me

4/13/2020

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"What can I do?"

It's a question that Jesus' disciples all across the world are wrestling with during these unprecedented times.  Covid-19 has locked us indoors and it seems the best way to love others is to stay away from them.  These are indeed strange days.

For many, you've spent the last years investing in the lives of friends who do not yet follow Jesus.  You love them dearly.  You've served them tirelessly and now, you can't see them.

And so we ask, "Lord, what can I do?"

For many the last years have been spent doing things for God.  We serve the church.  We help with programs.  We feed the poor.  We go to this event and that activity.  We lead Bible study.  We do, do, do.

And so when the world comes to a halt, we ask, "Lord, what can I do?"

For myself, this has been a journey into a lesson the Holy Spirit has been trying to teach me for the last few years.  I'm a slow learner!  I am by nature, a doer.  Perhaps we all are.  But in this moment, when "doing" has been in many ways stripped away, I've found myself wandering, wondering, worrying. 

Am I doing enough?  Am I doing  the right things?  And who am I?

The first week in particular was tough.  I'd wander in and out of a sort of discombobulated haze, not knowing up from down, not knowing what I'd do with myself once I finished the next email I was writing or the call I was on.  My "doer" was being battered and I didn't know what to . . . well, do.

In it all I could hear the whisper of God in the distance, an inviting calm that, as the days wore on and my chaos subsided, I began to listen to and to recognize.  

Be my child.
Be my friend.
Be a member of my church.
Be a citizen of heaven.
Be my workmanship.
Be my new creation.
Be justified and righteous.
Be secure in my hand.
Be free from condemnation.

Be with Me.  Be with Me. Be with Me.

How are you finding ways to simply be with Jesus this week?
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A Letter To Dads During Covid-19

3/25/2020

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Dear Dads,

​It seems crazy to think that just two weeks ago life was relatively normal.  Now, it seems that everything has changed.

​There is a lot of uncertainty and if you’re like me, you’re still not entirely sure what is going on.  There is a lot that we are all going through and a lot that we all need encouragement in right now, but with this letter I want to encourage you to do one thing: lead on Sunday morning in your home.


Covid-19 is and will continue to be disruptive and hard.  But in every difficulty there is opportunity. God meant it when he had Paul pen the words of Romans 8:28, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

The reality of “church at home” is probably going to be a reality for the foreseeable future.  Our church leaders and pastors are doing a great job creating online content that can help us through this time. 

And while it's good to sit down in front of the TV or computer screen and watch and listen as a family, there is an amazing opportunity to step up and lead your family in being the church, in actively doing church at home.


Jesus told us that “where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”  Gather your family in the name of Jesus.  Lead them in prayer and worship and in fellowship.  This is an opportunity to teach your children to seek the face of Jesus, to model for them prayer and worship and what it looks like to be a man of God who looks to actively apply the teachings of Jesus.  Help them learn to actively apply the teaching of Jesus in their lives.

There is a simple format that can be followed that will help you lead your family. Divide your Sunday morning as a family into three thirds.
 

Looking Back
CARE:  The first third of your time can be focused on caring for one another and worship.  Start by praying for your time together and then ask two simple questions and allow everyone to share about how their week went.
  1. What are you thankful for this week?
  2. What was challenging this week?

After everyone has shared, invite your wife and kids to join you in praising God for the things that are going well and to pray for one another about the needs that were expressed.

WORSHIP:  Lead your family into a time of worship.  Some of us are musically gifted, but for the rest of us this may mean asking your kids what their favorite worship songs are and finding them on Youtube to listen to or sing along with.  It may be an opportunity to read some of the Psalms together.

Regardless of what this looks like at your home, have fun worshiping the Lord together. If you have young kids, let them beat spoons on a pan or dance as they worship.


CAST VISION: Is there a verse that has been particularly meaningful to you this week?  Is there an area you are hoping you and your family can grow in? Take a moment to cast some vision for the things that God is putting on your heart for your family. Share a verse from the Bible to encourage your family in the way you know they need to be encouraged. 

Looking Up
The second third of your time together can be spent looking into the word of God together.  Acts 2:42 paints a picture of the early church saying "that they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."  This is the time to learn from the word of God.  

This would be a great time to tune into your church’s online service to listen together to your pastor’s message for the week.

You could also use the SWORD method to lead your family in discovery Bible study, helping teach your kids how to dig into God’s word for themselves.  Together you will learn what Jesus has for each of you in a particular passage of scripture. [learn about discovery Bible study]

Regardless, this second third is a time to dedicate to studying the Bible.

Looking Ahead
The final third of your time together should be spent looking ahead to the week to come.  It is a time to plan together how you can apply what you’ve learned and be a blessing to others in the coming week.  A few simple questions for this time are:

  1. How can I apply what I learned today from the sermon or our discovery Bible study?
  2. Who can I tell about what I learned today? Do I have a friend who needs to hear about it?  Is there someone I can tell about Jesus this week?
  3. Who can we bless this week?  In our home? In our neighborhood?  In our town? In our world? 

After you have discussed these as a family, ask your kids to hold you accountable to actually do the things you’ve said you would do.
  

End your time together by praying for your family.  Then enjoy a great meal together!

Covid-19 is going to be a life changing event for all of us.  But as fathers we have an opportunity to step in and lead our families into a deeper place of faith and following.  

Imagine if our kids look back at this time and remember most of all that their dad led them closer to Jesus!

May it be!  
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Abiding: An Appropriate Response to Covid-19

3/23/2020

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Covid-19 is an unprecedented world event that is unlike anything anyone now living has ever seen. 

It has interrupted life.  It has caused hardship.   And if the Surgeon General is correct, it's going to get worse.  As followers of Jesus there is much that we can and will do in the coming weeks and perhaps months to be His hands and feet, to demonstrate His love, to share the truth and hope of the Gospel.
 
But the most important thing we can do, is to abide in him.

Last week I sent an email out to a number of pastor friends asking if there were any specific ways I could be praying.  As responses came in it became increasingly apparent that these leaders were stepping into uncharted waters.  Life was getting crazy as they tried to figure out what to do about Sunday morning services, how to shepherd well despite social distancing and how to care for their own families.

And of course it's not just pastors. Everyone is struggling to make heads or tails of our current situation.  Across the globe the Coronavirus is wreaking havoc.  

And so more than ever before, as the people of God we must turn to Jesus for guidance and help, and according to Jesus in John 15, we have only two choices: 


  1. Abide in Christ and bear much fruit which brings God glory.  Or . . .
  2. Don't abide in Christ and don't bear fruit and don't bring God glory.

And so with today's article we want to share a three resources that we have found helpful to help disciples abide in Christ.

Cornerstone Reading Plan:  Any reading plan will do as long as it gets you reading the word of God.  This particular plan will have you read four chapters a day and allow you to immerse yourself in the whole story of the Bible.

S.O.A.P.S Bible Reading:  As you are reading the Bible, the S.O.A.P.S reading tool will help you to interact with the word, obey it and share with others.

Prayer Wheel:  The prayer wheel will give you a process to pray for one hour, five minutes at a time, prayerfully interacting with God in a number of ways.  This particular resource is a pdf with three bookmarks so be sure and share it with a couple of friends as well.

There are many helpful resources to help us abide in Christ.  But above any particular resource,  we must follow the example of Jesus who often withdrew to lonely places to be with the Father.  
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Teaching through Luke 10:1-24

2/24/2020

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A sermon given at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church on the strategies and disciple making process of Jesus in Luke 10:1-24.
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Have You Been MAWLed lately?

10/14/2019

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How did you learn to ride a bike?

Did your dad sit you on the couch in front of the TV and say, "Here, watch four hours of the Tour de France.  That will do the trick."

Probably not. 

You most likely did watch older brothers or sisters ride bike however.  It looked fun and if you were like most kids, you wanted to ride too.

Learning to ride bike probably looked more like your dad - or in my case, older brother - running along beside you, one hand holding firmly to the back of your seat to help you balance as you started pedaling and getting the feel of things.  

That firm grip was released and those first rides certainly included a crash or two followed by comfort and the encouragement to get back in the saddle.

In short order, you mastered the art and skill of bike riding.  You may not be ready to race in the Tour de France but you are more than capable of a ride across town.   

You have achieved unconscious competence in the bike riding department.

Our journey toward bike riding stardom highlights the basic training principles that are required to make disciples who make disciples. 


We call these the MAWL principle.

Model, Assist, Watch and Launch.  This is the basic process through which we all learned to ride bike and it is the model of training that we see Jesus using and later Paul.  This basic principle is applied in all good training that leads to actual competence and reproduction, to disciples having the confidence and competence to obey Jesus and make disciples.

MODEL
Modeling requires us to set the example by actually doing what we want others to do.  We see Jesus doing this in his ministry - he is preaching, healing, casting out demons, abiding with the Father, praying, setting strategy.  He has taken the disciples with him and they are watching his example, asking questions and asking for deeper teaching.  

Nathan Shank in Four Fields of Kingdom Growth comments that "What a disciple does in the first three months of faith, he or she will reproduce throughout their walk.  If the disciple is asked to passively observe the work of the church, passivity will likely be the "DNA".  If the disciple is expected to aggressively pursue friends and loved ones, reproducing what has been trained [modeled], multiplication is set in motion."

What we model is important.

ASSIST
Assisting requires to release our disciples to actually do what it is we want them to do by themselves.  We have to put them on the bike.  We assist them but they are doing the work.  Again we see Jesus doing this with the disciples.  Who is going to feed the 4,000?  They are.  Jesus is going to assist, but they are going to go out and serve the food.  Who is doing all the baptizing?  They are.  Jesus is there and even gets blamed for the baptizing, but the Bible is clear that it is actually his disciples who are doing the work.  

WATCH
Assisting can quickly shift into watching.  For some things, assistance might take longer than others and there is rarely a clear line of when we shift from assisting to watching, but shift we must.  Our disciples must recognize our release of control so that they are empowered to do the work themselves. 

​In Paul's second letter to Timothy he says, "And the things you've heard me say in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to reliable people who will be qualified to teach others".  Paul is watching from afar, hearing reports and coaching Timothy to continue to do what  he is doing.  

And of course your disciples will occasionally crash. Like the first time your dad released your seat and you scrapped your knee as you skidded sideways to the ground, those you are training will make mistakes.  They will make messes. They will FAIL.  And you will have the grace to pick them up, reassure them that they'll be fine and get them back in the saddle.

Don't worry, the kingdom won't fall apart with one mistake.  Mistakes are the catalyst for maturity when treated with grace and love and Biblical application.


LAUNCH
There then comes a time when we must launch our disciples out to run the race on their own.  Jesus launches his disciples despite some of them doubting, to go and make disciples of all nations!  We see Paul charging the Ephesian elders to stand up and continue the work without him as he heads back to Jerusalem for one final visit.  

MAWL principles are as old as the Bible but our modern teaching techniques which sequester training in classrooms and pews make it difficult to apply them.  Knowledge acquisition has in many ways trumped actual application and competence.

And so too often I've simply told people what they ought to do. 
  • You should read your Bible daily.
  • ​You should share the gospel with your non-believing friends.
  • You should pray regularly.
  • You should fast.
  • You should . . . . . .

I've given hour long seminars.  I've preached sermons.  I've shared good ideas.  But in the end, I've been discouraged by the results.   The people I've taught walked away with a head full of knowledge but no real idea how to actually apply that knowledge come Monday morning or no confidence that they actually could.

The MAWL principle is what we see in the Bible.  And it just makes sense.  Everywhere in life where we want to master a skill, these ideas are the way to master them.  If you wanted to become an electrician or a mechanic or a carpenter in the past you apprenticed yourself to a master.  Modeling, Assisting, Watching and Launching were just what naturally happened every day that you showed up at the shop and worked alongside your boss.

If we want to see disciples become disciples who can and are making disciples who in turn can and are making disciples, then we must spend more time training with MAWL principles.  

Who can you  MAWL today?
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7 Books To Fuel A Movement Paradigm Shift

9/23/2019

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It was early 2008 when I was first introduced to movement thinking at a world wide gathering for the mission agency I was working with at the time.  I was new to the mission field, to church planting and so the week long seminar I attended rocked my world.  There were so many paradigm shifts in what I was hearing, so much that was counter intuitive to what I'd done my entire church life in the U.S.  It was disorientating at first but it struck a chord deep in my soul.  

Church planting movments (CPM), disciple making movements (DMM), the spontaneous expansion of the church - all of it seemed born in the pages of  scripture.    Reading the case studies of movements happening in Asian and Africa looked like the book of Acts far more than my own church experience.  And we we living in a country that was less than 0.01% Christian. 


Doing what we'd always done was just not an option.

Over the next several years, we got some great training, had a great coach and dove into our own personal journey of rewriting the paradigms of church that had been embedded in us by a lifetime of North American church culture.  I also began reading everything I could get my hands on in order to help me  grow in my understanding and practice of all that it would take to see a church planting movement birthed where we were.

The first book that I read over and over again was the book of Acts.  It is where everyone should start.  But after that I began to find other books that helped me learn what God was doing in the book of Acts.

And so here are seven books that I found helpful on that journey.
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Church Planting Movements by David Garrison

This was the first book I ever read that dealt with church planting movements and multiplication. The first half of the book was filled with case studies of movements around the world. The second half taught about the Biblical principles that were found in movements around the world.

You can find out more about the book, including free pdf files of the book in many languages at the CPM website.
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http://www.churchplantingmovements.com/  
T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith with Ying Kai

T4T follows the story of an unfolding church planting movement that grew up in China.  This book shares that story but then goes into detail unpacking the Biblical principles, strategies and methods that allowed Ying Kai to be used by God to catalyze a movement that saw over 1.7 million baptisms and 150,000 new churches in a ten year period.
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What Jesus Started by Steve Addison

Steve Addison is a long time researcher of and practitioner of movement thinking.  With What Jesus Started, he begins with the character, strategies and methods of Jesus.  He then walk through the apostle's work in the book of Acts, focusing on the Apostle Paul.  Laying a clear Biblical foundation for movment principles and strategies, Addison then moves into case studies from the last 2,000 years where movements happened across the globe.  

Addison's website and podcast are exceptionally helpful as well.


https://www.movements.net/​
There's a Sheep in my Bathtub by Brian Hogan

This book tells the story of a movement that Hogan and others helped catalyze in Mongolia.  It is a riveting story that unpacks movement principles through the on the ground lessons learned in the cauldron of ministry.  
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Giving Up Control by A. J. DeJonge

Giving Up Control follows the journey into multiplication and movement principles by a group of Cru staff working on college campuses in Australia.  As they apply the counter intuitive principles they learn valuable lessons that they share as ten coaching proverbs .  This is a super helpful book and is just $0.99 as an ebook at Amazon.  

Miraculous Movements by Jerry Trousdale

Miraculous Movements tells the powerful stories of movements spreading among highly resistant Muslim tribes in East and North Africa.  These stories are interspersed with chapters teaching movement and multiplication principles.  It is both an inspiring and helpful book.
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Contagious Disciple Making by David Watson and Paul Watson

David Watson was one of the early pioneers of catalyzing movements in the modern missions era.  The lessons he learned in northern India have been invaluable in helping others apply Biblical principles to gospel work around the world.  In this book he unpacks those principles in applicable lessons.  

These seven books will do much to help anyone interested in multiplication and movement.  The paradigm shifts needed to begin to apply the Biblical principles of multiplication are enormous.  These books will help you make those shifts.

A few other helpful books:
  • The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by Rolland  Allen
  • Spent Matches by Roy Moran
  • From Megachurch to Multiplication by Chris Galanos
  • Stubborn Perseverance by James Nyman
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