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2023

Friday, July 28 2023 Proposed Hybrid Class – CLM Module 1
Friday, July 28 USA Cell Church Examples

2021

Wednesday, September 22 Fall 2021 CLM Module 1 Homework Assignment #6 of 6
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2019

Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.12 The camp meeting shaped prairie Methodism.
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.11 Asbury … deliberately chose to plant churches in isolated rural settings
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.10 Prairie DNA: a vast migration of people from urban to rural areas.
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.9 Wesley DNA: a vast migration of people from rural to urban areas
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.8 WESLEY’S TWELVE RULES OF A HELPER
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.7 WESLEY’S RULES OF THE BAND
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.6 HEALTHY LEADERSHIP CORE in Methodism
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.5 American Adaptations of the Methodist discipleship system
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.4 Stages in Wesley’s Methodist discipleship system
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.3 John Wesley was a complex man living in complex times.
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.2 Ruby K. Payne’s work on poverty with traditions in small United Methodist Churches in the United States
Saturday, February 16 Unit 7.1 The Early Methodist Faith Community
Friday, February 15 Unit 6.7 Another option is to harness that spiritual energy that laity have for service in the community
Friday, February 15 Unit 6.6 the new model for church planting at the Southern Baptist International Mission Board called Church Planting Movements.
Friday, February 15 Unit 6.5 There are an abundance of discipleship systems that are entirely separate from participation in a local church.
Friday, February 15 Unit 6.4 a developing trend of people deepening their spirituality in small groups outside their churches.
Friday, February 15 Unit 6.3 Up Close and Personal: My Experience with Church Planting Movements
Friday, February 15 Unit 6.2 How can we have a church without worship at the center of all things?
Friday, February 15 Unit 5.25 IS GINGHAMSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH A CELL CHURCH?
Friday, February 15 Unit 5.24 IS SADDLEBACK COMMUNITY CHURCH A CELL CHURCH?
Friday, February 15 Unit 6.1 The Fourth Wave of Cell Innovation
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.23 IS WILLOW CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH A CELL CHURCH?
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.22 Are Willow Creek, Saddleback and Ginghamsburg Cell Churches?
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.21 Ginghamsburg History and Innovations
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.20 Ginghamsburg: Cells or not a cell?
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.19 The Discipleship System at Ginghamsburg.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.18 Ginghamsburg Principle #6: The Leadership Principle: spiritual entrepreneurship.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.17 Ginghamsburg Principle #5: The Priesthood Principle: equipping the laity for ministry.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.16 Ginghamsburg Principle #4: The Covenant Principle: commitment to the integrity of membership.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.15 Ginghamsburg Principle #3: The Liturgical Principle: discovery of new worship forms.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.14 Ginghamsburg Principle #2: The Biblical Principle: scriptural truth as the primary source for what we believe and do.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.13 Ginghamsburg Principle #1: The Lordship Principle: a clear focus on Jesus Christ as the object of faith.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.12 The Third Wave of Cell Innovation: Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.11 Criticism will always come, not from sinners, but from saints.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.10 Saddleback Surprises
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.9 The Third Wave of Cell Innovation: Saddleback
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.8 Willow Creek after Bill Hybels … the idolatry of leadership
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.7 the so-called “apology” that Willow Creek delivered in the fall of 2007.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.6 seeker small groups under Randy Frazee
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.5 Here are the seven steps as Willow Creek describes them
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.4 an effective discipleship system requires the working involvement of every believer in seeking the lost
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.3 the seven step philosophy is the equipping track
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.2 The Seven Step Philosophy is Willow Creek’s original discipleship system, and the discipleship system is the engine that drives the growth in worship attendance.
Thursday, February 14 Unit 5.1 The Third Wave of Cell Innovation: Willow Creek Community Church
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.19 Where is the equipping track in Acts?
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.18 PERSONAL CONCERNS REGARDING THE G-12 MODEL By Steve M Irvin.
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.17 The main complaint about the G12 system in the USA is the need for three meetings a week
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.16 The following story may help illustrate the G12 system; each circle is illustrated by a letter of the alphabet.
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.15 The G12 cell management structure
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.14 Introducing the G12 Systems
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.13 Equipping Tracks Build A Healthy Core Group
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.12 Fundamental Cell System Principles 13-16
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.11 Fundamental Cell System Principles 9-12
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.10 Fundamental Cell System Principles 5-8
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.9 Fundamental Cell System Principles 1-4
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.8 The Second Wave: South American Innovations in Discipleship Systems
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.7 The Metachurch Model seeks to accomodate the traditional church.
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.6 Blending the worship/administrative system tasks into the discipleship system may infect the discipleship system with the characteristics of the institutional church.
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.5 The Yoido church system balances the worship/administrative system with the discipleship system of the home cell groups.
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.4 Classifying Cell Church Models
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.3 The cells themselves function as a discipleship system
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.2 the micro-community level within each cell
Wednesday, February 13 Unit 4.1 The Second Wave: South American Innovations
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.12 The Base Congregation as infrastructure.
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.11 The Healthy Core Group and Beckham’s Base Congregation
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.10 The Discipleship System and Beckham’s “Eddies”
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.9 The “pure cell” church, microprogramming and microgovernance
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.7 The Two Winged or Ambidextrous Church
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.6 Ralph W. Neighbour: Healthy Core Group
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.5 Ralph W. Neighbour: Discipleship Systems
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.4 Ralph W. Neighbour: Faith Communities
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.3 The First Wave Interpreted Worldwide: Ralph W. Neighbour
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.2 Two basic trends developed: Ralph Neighbour and Carl George.
Tuesday, February 12 Unit 3.1 The First Wave Interpreted Worldwide
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.19 The closest thing in my opinion to the geographically focused Yoido discipleship system in America
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.18 Microinnovation
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.17 Microgovernance
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.16 Microscheduling
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.14 Microprogramming
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.15 Yoido runs a Sunday school with twenty thousand children in attendance
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.13 Slow advancement of leaders
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.12 Yoido staff pastors begin their work day with an hour or more of prayer and spend the remainder of their time in ministry visitation accompanied by their lay leaders.
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.11 Staff focus on visitation rather than events, programs or committees.
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.10 Fourfold Ministry: Focus on problems of individuals
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.9 Fourfold Ministry: Focus on specific people
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.8 Fourfold Ministry: Ministry Visitation in Micro-mission Fields
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.7 Fourfold Ministry: Prayer Meetings
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.6 Fourfold Ministry: Worship
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.5 Fourfold Ministry and Micro Differences
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.4 Yoido Church – How It’s Done: Healthy Core Group
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.3 Yoido Church – How It’s Done: Discipleship Systems
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.2 Yoido Church – How It’s Done: Faith Communities
Monday, February 11 Unit 2.1 Yoido Full Gospel Church of Seoul, Korea
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.15 Systemic Problem #4: STRANGER EVANGELISM
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.14 Systemic Problem #3: PRAIRIE DNA
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.13 Systemic Problem #2. INSTITUTIONAL WORLD VIEW
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.12 Systemic Problem #1. NOT MAKING DISCIPLES
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.11 Greg Ogden, forming the discipleship system
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.10 Greg Ogden, eight causes of this discipleship malaise
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.9 Greg Ogden, seven marks of authentic discipleship
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.8 Greg Ogden, Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.7 Craig Kennet Miller: What is a healthy core group?
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.6 Craig Kennet Miller: What is a discipleship system?
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.5 Craig Kennet Miller: What is a faith community?
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.4 The Healthy Core Group in Oz
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.3 Discipleship Systems in Oz
Sunday, February 10 Unit 1.2 Faith Communities in Oz
Sunday, February 10 Lecture Kueker Unit 1.1 Faith Communities, Discipleship Systems and Healthy Core Groups
Tuesday, February 5 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Tuesday, February 5 The Walk to Emmaus is a planned experience of Justifying grace and an organized rite of passage into spiritual adolescence.
Tuesday, February 5 District fellowship organizations also provide significant opportunities for district equipping for disciple making.
Tuesday, February 5 Connectional Church Planting
Tuesday, February 5
Tuesday, February 5 Purpose Driven District.
Tuesday, February 5 Districts can be key resources to developing discipleship systems in congregations, and especially in smaller congregations.
Tuesday, February 5 A structure is needed for the ongoing equipping and supervision of disciple making leaders.
Tuesday, February 5 In years past differentiation needs for small church members were met by linking individuals through District programming for ministry or training.
Tuesday, February 5 The linking unit of connectionalism in an annual conference is the district.
Tuesday, February 5 Theologically, the Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference in 2006 is a church of 74,431 persons worshiping each week in 907 locations linked through ten districts.
Tuesday, February 5 Connectionalism, the historical form of Methodist organization, is a viable third alternative to the lose-lose, “either/or” power struggle between centralization and congregationalism.
Tuesday, February 5 Centralization, Congregationalism and Connectionalism.
Tuesday, February 5 First Love: Christ Centered Church Renewal – Ginghamsburg
Monday, February 4 The final Quest task is called “family planning.”
Monday, February 4 The third task in the Quest is for each apprentice to design a service project in the area of their gifting
Monday, February 4 The second task in the Quest is a mission trip to serve others in poverty
Monday, February 4 The traditional model for the Quest is an expanded version of the process to become an Eagle Scout.
Monday, February 4 The Quest Equipping Track
Monday, February 4 Mission is a task oriented concept of spiritual adolescence; this is not an insult because missional service is a necessary stage
Monday, February 4 In the human life cycle the drama and narcissism of adolescence are concluded by forming a committed partnership followed by the humble reality of beginning a family.
Monday, February 4 TOOLS FOR DIFFERENTIATION: Network is a six-session dynamic program developed at Willow Creek
Monday, February 4 Gifts identification programs are helpful in the self discovery of the ministry to which God calls a person.
Monday, February 4 If a church does not provide for differentiation, spiritual adolescents will seek it, often by joining another church
Monday, February 4 Adolescence is a time of differentiation
Monday, February 4 Differentiating an Entire Church
Monday, February 4 JUMP Groups are self-selecting
Monday, February 4 Neil Cole’s Life Transformation Groups are the simplest form of cells known
Monday, February 4 Jesus chose his disciples; you will also need to choose yours.
Monday, February 4 The sign of a person moving into the teen phase of spiritual maturity is differentiation
Monday, February 4 You cannot spiritually mature people who are not committed Christians.
Monday, February 4 “Life Transformation Groups” and the Methodist Class Meeting and Bands
Monday, February 4 A Simple Discipleship System:
Monday, February 4 TOOLS FOR SANCTIFYING GRACE
Monday, February 4 Only 17% of church attenders participate in Sunday School, bible study or any learning event other than worship.
Monday, February 4 The potential convert’s early contact is entirely with the cell rather than attending a worship service as a stranger.
Monday, February 4 Don’t abandon the children on the doorsteps of the church! Baby Christians should never be orphans!
Sunday, February 3 Step 8. Choose someone with whom you would be willing to be spiritual partners in a JUMP group.
Sunday, February 3 Step 7. Do not invite them to worship!
Sunday, February 3 Choose one person to pray for daily for one year (Month By Month Option).
Sunday, February 3 Preliminary Steps in Using the Prayer Tool
Sunday, February 3 The Prayer Tool Organizes Participation in Prevenient Grace.
Sunday, February 3 In this parable, who (literally) are the lost?
Sunday, February 3 TOOLS FOR PREVENIENT GRACE: The Prayer Tool
Sunday, February 3 Fivefold purpose of the Elim Church of El Salvador:
Sunday, February 3 The true end result of the Great Commission is not a disciple but a disciple maker.
Sunday, February 3 Disciple making begins with prevenient grace as we each cooperate with God, go out into the world and make disciples through grace filled conversations.
Sunday, February 3 Disciples are made by a healthy Discipleship System.
Sunday, February 3 HOMEWORK Discussion Questions: move the proper question to the previous posts
Sunday, February 3 In the early 1960s sociologists Rodney Stark and John Lofland studied the first conversions to the Unification Church or “Moonie” cult in the United States as a means of identifying why people convert
Sunday, February 3 What sort of evangelism actually results in disciples?
Sunday, February 3 … if you want to double your class every two years or less, give Friday nights to Jesus.
Sunday, February 3 As the church is the primary builder of social networks, the decrease in social capital is both a cause and a result of the decline of church participation in America.
Sunday, February 3 The church multiplication movement strategy is rapidly planting indigenous churches
Sunday, February 3 Laggard: I began to have grave concerns about the changes brought into my church by my pastor …
Sunday, February 3 The Bishop’s Mistake
Sunday, February 3 Diffusion of Innovations research shows that communication that encourages adoption of an innovation, like becoming a Christian, spreads beyond the visionary minority only by multiple conversations through interpersonal networks.
Sunday, February 3 Occam’s razor is a philosophical tool to reduce arguments to their essentials
Sunday, February 3 Small, incremental changes are normal in nature.
Sunday, February 3 Yoido Pastor Yongii Cho: You know, we don’t do evangelism in Korea the way you do it in the West . . .
Sunday, February 3 USA Pastor Robert Hudnut: It is a tough time for the American church.
Sunday, February 3 JUMP BROCHURE
Sunday, February 3 Committed and growing Christians will demonstrate the following measurable behaviors:
Tuesday, January 29 For The Love of Pete
Tuesday, January 29 If conversations change lives, then a working definition of a person’s micro-mission field would be all those with whom that person had conversation on a regular basis.
Tuesday, January 29 Five Steps in Adoption: Diffusion research identifies five main steps in the innovation decision process which occur in a time ordered sequence
Tuesday, January 29 Diffusion is defined as “the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system.”
Monday, January 28 Information spreads on the other side of the chasm by conversations between homophilous individuals that share kinship
Monday, January 28 CROSSING THE CHASM: From Visionary Minority to Pragmatic Majority
Monday, January 28 Early Adopters or Visionaries
Monday, January 28 HOMEWORK Discussion Questions: Innovators
Monday, January 28 Innovators are always searching for someone with whom they can communicate about their enthusiasms.
Monday, January 28 Innovators will be perceived as living both inside and outside their cultures of origin, functionally linking two or more worlds and advocating diversity and pluralism.
Monday, January 28 Innovators or Technology Enthusiasts
Monday, January 28 G. Critical mass: An “S-shaped diffusion curve ‘takes off’ at about 10-25% adoption
Monday, January 28 1.6 Looking for Current Anxiety
Sunday, January 27 Begin to notice conflict and anxiety in the New Testament, and how Jesus and the Apostles dealt with it.
Sunday, January 27 1.3 Sanctified Batting Order Review
Sunday, January 27 A high level of shared interest and common experiences create a relational homogeniety.
Sunday, January 27 F. Evangelism is a reinforcing process.
Sunday, January 27 As in the United States, the typical size of a church in Korea is fifty or less.
Sunday, January 27 Applying Senge’s Limits To Growth In Churches
Sunday, January 27 Balancing processes do bring change, but without upsetting the equilibrium of the system.
Sunday, January 27 Important principles with Senge’s Limits to Growth systems archetype
Sunday, January 27 Consider the two columns of characteristics
Sunday, January 27 An example: Two Hundred Barrier in Church Growth.
Sunday, January 27 90% of innovations will fail
Sunday, January 27 Jesus was very successful at change … We can learn from Him.
Wednesday, January 23 Cell Parable: Hunger
Tuesday, January 22 Developmental spirituality could be described as having five basic stages correlating to human development
Tuesday, January 22 Cell Parable: The Orphanage
Tuesday, January 22 A Discovery Group can develop a ministry plan of 10-15 pages
Tuesday, January 22 Confronting an uncomfortable reality:
Tuesday, January 22 Fourth and Fifth Stages – Spiritual Parents and Grandparents
Tuesday, January 22 As in the culture, many spiritual teens remain stuck in adolescence, focused on self-fulfillment and self-satisfaction.
Tuesday, January 22 Identifying the Problem: Not making disciples.
Tuesday, January 22 Disciple Making Tools for Spiritual Teenagers
Tuesday, January 22 Highly organized, network-based Discipleship Systems in large, third world cell churches allow rapid growth
Tuesday, January 22 Are teenagers non-conformists and unconventional?
Tuesday, January 22 How then do large churches grow?
Tuesday, January 22 Disciple Making Tools for Children
Tuesday, January 22 Are small churches doomed?
Tuesday, January 22 Disciple Making Tools for Newborns
Tuesday, January 22 Church Tiers in the Illinois Great Rivers Conference
Tuesday, January 22 Day by Day Theory
Tuesday, January 22 ‘God is not pleased,’ warned Stott, ‘with superficial discipleship.’
Tuesday, January 22 Churches can be described by the way the Discipleship System links people together with their leaders.
Monday, January 21 Believers of the Ethiopian Meserete Kristos movement grew tenfold … during nine years of persecution without public worship.
Monday, January 21 Contemporary worship is a modern version of the proclamation model.
Monday, January 21 Churches can be identified and categorized by the relationship between the worship service and the Discipleship System
Monday, January 21 Current Reality: Evaluating your small groups.
Monday, January 21 In a cell just as in a family, the primary focus is the welfare of each person.
Monday, January 21 Cell Church Priority #4: Cells
Monday, January 21 CURRENT EQUIPPING TRACK EXERCISE
Monday, January 21 “#4: I will never be satisfied until I fulfill my purpose.” Neither will we in America.
Monday, January 21 “Going on to perfection” is measured by our becoming fully observant disciples of Jesus Christ.
Monday, January 21 EVANGELISTICALLY GIFTED EXERCISE
Monday, January 21 Every member in a cell church, without exception, is expected to be directly involved in the making of new disciples and is fully supported in that task by the church’s organizational structure.
Monday, January 21 Cell churches do not believe in limits to growth
Sunday, January 20 Cell churches raise their level of adaptive competence by working diligently in all three kinds of grace.
Sunday, January 20 Examples of cell churches in the United States
Sunday, January 20 Cell Parable: Major League Baseball
Sunday, January 20 ‘a church that has placed evangelistic small groups at the core of its ministry.’
Sunday, January 20 Cell Parable: A Thousand People in a Field
Sunday, January 20 Heylighen’s Generalized Peter Principle
Sunday, January 20 Competency Limits, Thermostat Correction and Pushing the Trend
Sunday, January 20 In the Diagnosis seminar we will encounter principles from the world’s largest and fastest growing churches and explore the fit between them and our own local church settings.
Monday, January 14 It is a rare opportunity for the visionary minority to encounter an interested audience
Sunday, January 13 Assessment is a particular strength of Understanding by Design.
Sunday, January 13 After the Diagnosis Seminar, participants can organize a formal Discovery Group to study their local context and apply an objective diagnostic tool.
Sunday, January 13 Feeder Seminars
Sunday, January 13 An effective viral marketing strategy has six characteristics
Sunday, January 13 Implementation Strategy: Timeline, Structure, and Resources
Sunday, January 13 Change can be halted at the transfer point between one diffusion category to another …
Monday, January 7 During the annual Grand Home Visitation, staff pastors systematically visit all 700,000 members in their homes or businesses in a three-month period.
Monday, January 7 Conversion growth at Yoido Church is not uniform.
Monday, January 7 … all Christians are spiritually gifted and expected to use their gifts in the cells.
Monday, January 7 … a church member in the world’s largest church of 700,000 members receives more pastoral visitation than parish
Monday, January 7 Cells … begin through ministry visitation among strangers in a micro-mission field.
Monday, January 7 Evangelism at Yoido has an explicit territorial, geographical emphasis.
Monday, January 7 … non-cell microprogramming ministries … do not become the focus of the entire church …
Monday, January 7 … surrounded by the cell group members with whom they attend worship.
Sunday, January 6 “the average member has to wait at least one hour in a long line just to get a place to sit down in one of our seven services.”
Sunday, January 6 Cho experienced a physical collapse from overwork in 1964. After much prayer he began the cell ministry …
Sunday, January 6 … we focused on teaching and motivating believers to minister and reach out to others.
Sunday, January 6 Institutional churches are attempting to update the traditional proclamation model.
Sunday, January 6 If one is to observe all the commands of Christ, as demanded by the Great Commission, that obedience must include the Great Commission.
Sunday, January 6 A discipleship system is a natural, biblical process of grace and the primary task of a church.
Sunday, January 6 Discipleship systems cooperate with Jesus to support God’s work of helping people progress through phases of prevenient, justifying and sanctifying grace.
Sunday, January 6 Craig Miller defines a faith community as made up of two cooperative, interacting components: worship and a discipleship system.

2018

Monday, December 31 First, I propose to meet this need for consulting by developing a seminar based Self-Study process to present basic information on church growth
Monday, December 31 inviting persons to worship where they arrive as strangers, worship with strangers, leave as strangers, and remain strangers.
Monday, December 31 Conversion is more directly related to relational influences on an individual than any other factor.
Monday, December 31 Fourth Systemic Problem: Stranger Evangelism
Monday, December 31 Asbury called camp meetings “fishing with a large net.”
Monday, December 31 It is an gross oversimplification, however, to say that Methodism on the American frontier went “where the people were.”
Monday, December 31 As Methodists formed churches, the old timers in the class meeting experienced power struggles with the shift to resident clergy.
Monday, December 31 Francis Asbury preached the gospel on the empty prairies during a vast migration of people from urban to rural areas.
Monday, December 31 a different adaptation to the prairie environment which is now highly resistant to change.
Monday, December 31 An institutional view of the Church is unbiblical.
Sunday, December 30 Institutional leaders identify a shift in population from rural to urban settings as the cause of rural church decline.
Sunday, December 30 A church is a living thing and reborn with each new convert; it does not have a single life cycle.
Sunday, December 30 An institution is a non-living thing; things have a product life cycle.
Sunday, December 30 Institutions do not make disciples. They have other goals …
Sunday, December 30 An institutional worldview inhibits disciple-making
Sunday, December 30 an environmental system which supports multiple generations of disciples
Sunday, December 30 Each step of the maturational cycle is necessary to develop disciples who make disciples who make disciples.
Sunday, December 30 … disciple-making as an event, an accidental result due to unknown causes, a mysterious act of God …
Sunday, December 30 First Systemic Problem: Not Making Disciples
Sunday, December 30 … without a clear, diagnostic understanding of the four systemic problems, no strategy can hope to overcome …
Sunday, December 30 … the most significant arena through which disciple-making occurs.
Sunday, December 30 Half of all United Methodist Churches in the United States …
Sunday, December 30 … in the midst of a pruning process in our conference.
Sunday, December 30 … an ambitious “Comprehensive Plan for Church Growth and Development” …
Sunday, December 30 Demographics of the Ministry Context
Sunday, December 23 … as much to do with overcoming resistance to change as with innovative methods of evangelism.
Sunday, December 23 Churches fail to thrive when the Great Commission is not the central priority.
Sunday, December 23 … is transforming itself to a modified metachurch model …
Sunday, December 23 In four years they had gained a net growth of two thousand families.
Sunday, December 23 “It is God’s will that his Church grow …”
Sunday, December 23 … used the Yoido system, known as the “5×5″ model …
Sunday, December 23 a failure of the majority of churches to thrive
Sunday, December 23 In the beginning, west of Eden …
Sunday, December 23 ABSTRACT 3: The seminars will incorporate the vision, mission and goals of our conference
Sunday, December 23 ABSTRACT 2: The entire project will function as a gentle antithesis to homeostasis
Sunday, December 23 ABSTRACT 1: In 2004, I was one of six certified consultants…
Sunday, December 23 A Caveat: The greatest challenge …
Sunday, December 16 Foreword: Since 2007 …