As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
This article is the second in a series of articles on Church-Planting and Disciple-Making Movements. In our first article, we explored the history and core characteristics of these multiplying movements (MMs for shore). In today’s article, I’d like to overview and analyze the first main strategy that movement leaders emphasize.
“There are business administrators, receptionists, directors of children’s ministry, youth pastors, ministers of music…. None of those titles are in the Bible. Doesn’t that mean we should give up the two-office game and go ahead and list as many offices as we need?” - 9 Marks
“De-Urbanization… For Keller, ministering in cities was ministering to the future. To plant churches in rural or suburban areas was a losing proposition. This is no longer the case.” - Juicy Ecumenism
“…pastors need a technologically grounded and theologically informed framework for thinking about AI, one that understands the technology’s core limitation and discerns its usefulness and dangers for discipleship, and especially for preaching.” - TGC
“2. The Songs Are Hard to Sing. Some of today’s most popular worship songs are beautiful but not built for group singing. They can sit too high vocally, repeat long bridges, or rely on emotional builds that feel better suited for listening than joining in.
“I do not want to manipulate people into a false profession of faith. However, I also want to be as direct as the Bible is regarding the desperate consequences of sin, the reality of eternal punishment, the urgency of the gospel, and God’s command for people to place their dependence on the finished work of Christ for forgiveness of their sin and restoration to God.” - P&D
“Christianity Today interim president Thomas Addington officially announced today the appointment of Marvin Olasky as editor in chief. The media company with its magazine flagship is moving into its 70th-year celebration.” - CToday
“the megachurches that have surpassed Willow Creek have done so by perfecting what Hybels and Willow Creek started in 1975. A good many other megachurch pastors have followed Hybels into ignominy, having broken the trust of people who got them there.” - C.Leaders
“The initial response has been predictably mixed…. a comunique from the chairman of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) Primates Council said that global Anglicans received the news with sorrow and that it left them abandoned.” - TGC
“Graham said the standards mandating a leader care plan ‘puts ECFA into the role of trying to be the moral police of the evangelical world.’” - RNS
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