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The Wisdom of Teams

A Church Planting Essential: The Wisdom of Teams. Two of Kensington Community Church's founding trio, Steve Andrews and Dave Wilson, introduce future church planters and spiritual entrepreneurs to the power of teaming with others. One of the distinctive features of Kensington's ministry is their team leadership. Check the website, as I did,

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Church Planters Chat (part 1)

Every church planter you know must watch this video. Pass it forward. The night before the 2011 M conference we gathered church planters from across the country and talked about their experiences. This first conversation includes church planters whose launches were supported by the church planting movement that has emerged out of Kensington Comm

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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

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Mission and the Future

Thinking about the "future of  mission" (or of anything for that matter) requires imagination. A couple of decades ago I began to collect ideas and images of the future. One of several descriptors I used to paint portraits of the future was this: (more...)

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Only Human?

The gospel within human frameworks -- We tend to use the term "human" in the negative: "Well, he's only human." But what if we added to our mental vistas of humanity a positive idea of what it means to be human. I know this is a stretch for many of you because we so often think of humanity as the problem. But what if being human is not the proble

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Opaque vs Transparent Strategies – 1

Welcome back. You belong here.There is a spectrum of approaches for creating community with and among unreached people. Let's draw from the world of technology for an anology.Technologies exist on an opacity/ transparency spectrum. [Hat Tip to polymath and wordmaven Dean Sharp for the find].An OPAQUE technology is one in which the technology being

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Mega Church or House Church Networks: Part 2/ Heart and Hospitality

Welcome back. You belong here.In PART ONE of this Two Part post titled, The Mega Church and Home Church Networks: Twin Trajectories and Why We Need Them Both, I wrote the following:The first [Mega Church] trajectory needs excellence and resources to launch and heart and hospitality to succeed. The second [House Church Network] needs heart and hos

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Mega Church and Home Church Networks: Twin Trajectories and Why We Need Them Both

Welcome back. You belong here.There seem to be two leadership trajectories in the west. The first seems to be characterized by the recent phenomena of mega churches in the world. The majority of church conferences today are focused on this reality. The essence of these conference experiences seems to be a kind of corporate leadership guide for as

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Should we”go to church”?

Welcome back. You belong here.Alex,I need your advice. I have a friend who is going to another extreme.He feels that all churches teach legalism, all pastors have their ownagenda and churches should not have walls but "engage the darkside".For this reason, he has decided to not attend church at all. He has noplans or possibly even no desire to se

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What is a church?

Is two or three gathered by the calling of Christ to reach people (Mission), who share the Lord’s Supper (Missional Community), and baptize converts (Missional Activity) a church? What more than this is necessary? Or is this too much? Or is it something other than these elements?

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