Leadership

New Forms of Doing Church
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Session: Things that make (Steve Timmis) go 'Hmmmm...' The first thing that makes Mr. Timmis go hmmm is the fascination with new ways of 'doing church'.   It doesn't take much to see a number of new books, blogs and...
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Church Planters NOT as Pastors – ReThinking Leadership
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Session: Elders & the Local Church One of the sessions Steve Timmis led at the Total Church conference centered around the challenge to plant missional churches and develop leaders fast enough to plant additional churches.  The Crowded House, Timmis' said,...
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Total Church Conference – Summary
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I returned last week from the Total Church conference in England.  (I wanted to post earlier, but was having some technical difficulty).  In attendance there were 50 church planters from around the world, many were hybrids, traditional churches looking to...
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A Day in the Life of a Church Planting Movement
I haven't posted in a while, but wanted to share some of what is going on: Total Church Conference - Monday, David and I leave to England to participate in this conference.  We will be joined by kindred-spirits from Acts...
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The Church as Movement – Organizing Decentralization
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How do you lead a church as movement rather than a program-centered church? While most churches have a centralized program-oriented approach to ministry, we continue to explore how to be a decentralized church.  Why?  We want to transform our city...
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Church Planting & Movement Training
We believe it is important to provide potential church planters a new kind of missional training through the Tentmaker Group and discussions with the Porterbrook Network (created by the authors of Total Church and the pastors of the Crowded House. ...
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America's Most Innovative Churches of 2008 – Really?
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Why are America's Most Innovative Churches also some of the largest in America?  Northpointe, NewSpring, Saddleback et al are nominees for the award in 2008.    Is this like when Taco Bell wins best Mexican food because it's the most voted...
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Gospel, Mission, Kingdom, Imagination [External Links]
Triperspectival Leadership Essentials (David Fairchild) - Examines three essential elements of leadership, character, competency and the often overlooked compatibility.  Also check out his recent posts on Gospel Worldview Questions & Gospel Diagnostic Questions. Rick McKinley's talk @ the Q Conference....
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The Double-Edge Sword of Raising Support as a Church Planter
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A few days ago I posted an idea to help fund church planting and transitions into ministry.  Since then I've been thinking a bit more about a 'tentmaker' organization that would create sustainable church planting movements.  The concept comes from...
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Leading Gospel-Centered Church Meetings
Do you have a structure of how to lead meetings at your church?  In our monthy church planting meetings with Harbor, they patterned a structure of meeting we have adopted at Kaleo.  It includes: 1. Grace Renewal Stories [Existential] -...
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