passing the baton

Closely linked to the idea of the imitation of Christ is the idea of embodiment, which involves the dual tasks of patterning, and modeling. When we look at the phenomenal movements in history we will find that these people movements found a way to translate the grand themes of the Gospel (Kingdom of God, [...]

lastest take on china II…through rc eyes

In an article in the National Catholic Reporter Conversation Cafe, John L. Allen Jr gives some reasons why Roman Catholicism has not grown beyond that of the population in China…..

In a 2003 interview, then-Bishop Joseph Zen of Hong Kong (now a cardinal) said that Protestants are “winning” the contest for the souls of the [...]

latest take on china

LED BY A booming Pentecostal population, the number of Christians in China has mushroomed in the last half century to make it the third largest Christian nation in the world, behind only the United States and Brazil. About 900,000 Protestants lived in the country at the time of the Communist takeover in 1949. Today China [...]

starfish & the spider webcast this monday, 8-9pm cst

Just want to remind you of our first CommuniCast , featuring Ori Brafman, co-author of one of the hottest selling leadership books on the market — The Starfish and The Spider.

Broadcasting live on June 18 from 8-9 PM CST, this CommuniCast is like a webcast but more engaging and interactive. The cost of the [...]

risk and adaptation

Edward de Bono, no theologian, but definitely the leading specialist in creative learning processes, remarks that if there is a known and successful cure for an illness, patients generally prefer the doctor to use the known cure rather than seek to design a better one. Yet there may be much better cures to be found. [...]

Scratch and smell (or a sample chapter or two)

The publishers have selected the introduction and chapter one of The Forgotten Ways as a sample of the book for download and distribution. The introduction will not be strange to those who have been engaging on this blog for a while now, but chapter one will be entirely fresh. It tells the story [...]

The six elements of Apostlic Genius

In the previous post on The Forgotten Ways, I described how my journey to writing the book starting with me repeatedly asking myself the question, ‘how did they do it? How did the Early Christian Movement (and in our day, the Underground Chinese Church) achieve ‘spontaneous expansion?’ How did they grow exponentially, against [...]

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single question

OK, I want to return to our discussion on the new book. To get to the heart of the material, I have to introduce you to the question that obsessed me for about 3 years non-stop - the question that started my personal quest and culminated in the wrting of The Forgotten Ways. This [...]

Some serious learning going down!

I and a colleague Lance Ford, are developing a fantastic online training course using a ‘learning cafe’ environment. It will be a great resource for missional/apostolic leadership. Seriously, I have just been introduced to the technology involved and I have honestly never seen anything like it. There is a virtual classroom with data projection, [...]

The missional power of goodness

My mates at onmovements.com have got a copy of Rodney Stark’s new book, Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome. I have not read this book, but am very appreciative of Rodney Stark’s socio-historical insights on movements. In his The Rise of Christianity (which I [...]

The subversion of Christianity

I am on a roll. Someone please stop me before I go too far! But I couldn’t resist further exploration into the role of Jesus in his church. Jacques Ellul again.
Christianity claims not to be a religion that is superior to others, but to be an antireligion that refutes all the religions that [...]

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