Erwin McManus: Creating Culture

The Millennium Matrix – Part 1

Futurist and author, Rex Miller, walks the M audience through the "technological imperative" and the seismic shifts that are rocking culture. ------------------------------------- M is created by the International M network. For more information about future M events ... Twitter: @theimn Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheIMN A

How To Start A Movement

It used to be that young church planters talked about starting a new churches. If they were ambitious, and they all were, they wanted it to grow and grow big, grow mega. The people I talk to today all want to start a movement. Everyone's a movement leader now. I remember about a decade or so ago a young guy emailed me and wrote, the movement has b

Communities of Knowing

In his book, The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy tells the fictional story of a train that hurried through the countryside. The commuters on board saw the passing scenery as little more than a two-dimensional background rolling past their windows. One day, though, the train breaks down and the commuters have to disembark by a yellow house with

Awakening the More

In this first of a two-part article, we continue our exploration of what it means to be a force of nature (more specifically, a force of creation), and begin to look at how this happens. 10,000 HOURS In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell busts some myths surrounding those really talented people who seem to appear out of the blue to take their wo

A Force of Nature

Navigating the Maelstrom...of Missional Leadership in Traditional Settings -- I am listening to a podcasted Q&A session with Erwin McManus and UK church leaders as I write. One person asks: How do you go about discerning how you can make the best contribution [with your life]? Erwin’s reply is basically: focus on the things you are good at

A Thin Silence

Just to recap from the last article, here I am, seeing and experiencing things more humanly and more missionally, but I’m part of a traditional denomination (namely Methodism), so what do I do? I imagined this as a “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” question so I could use my “phone-a-friend” option. Here is the million pound/dollar quest

Reproducible Leadership, Structures, and Methods

How can a movement go viral? In the early days, I often operated under the following principle: "Never do anything that the newest person cannot do." For example, when starting a Bible study, it was more important to transfer a value and a process for Bible study than it was to share my knowledge about the Bible. Sure, sharing my knowledge was p

Whispering in the Wind

Navigating the maelstrom of missional leadership within a traditional context -- I was invited to share in another denomination’s Good Friday service this year – one of seven people reflecting on the words Jesus speaks from the cross (mine were, “It is finished” – interesting, in the light of what I’m going to now share). It was a lon