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Kingdom Kernels
…God seems to be increasing the pace at which Church-Planting Movements are starting globally—movements characterized by numerous streams of disciples and churches multiplying to the fourth generation and beyond. One thing I’ve learned in fifteen years of training individuals to cooperate with the Spirit in launching Church-Planting Movements (CPMs) and…
The Final Assault: Hastening
…Excerpted from Book One of a Two-part Saga about Finishing the Task. Projected release 2nd quarter of 2014. For notification of availability, or to inquire about advance order discounts, email [email protected] Christopher Owen sipped his coffee as he watched John and Nic pull out documents and tablets. Where did…
Kingdom Kernels
…Imagine that you are responsible to insure the training and personal development of a growing number of new pastors each year. This year it is 500, added to 300 from the previous year and 200 from the year before. However, these leaders must remain on the job, not leaving their…
Kingdom Kernels
…In the previous issue, I discussed the concept of finding God-prepared people. Because they are so out of the norm from what we normally encounter, I sometimes call them abnormal people: they are prepared by God to respond abnormally quickly and fervently as well as to have abnormal impact in…
Kingdom Kernels
…After sharing with a group of missionaries about God’s vision of a Church-Planting Movement (CPM) in their contexts, I paused to ask them how their work was going. I was blind-sided by their responses: “In our culture, it normally takes four years for the average Buddhist to believe after first…
Kingdom Kernels
…You’ve decided in your heart that you want to see God birth a Church-Planting Movement (CPM) in your community or people group. The question is: “How do I start?” Suppose that we’re sitting in a coffee shop and I hand you a napkin, saying, “Sketch out the path to a…
Kingdom Kernels
…In a remote valley in a restricted access nation, I gathered with my Ina partners as we discussed how to reach the 1.4 million Ina people. I had taught them repeatedly that the only way to reach all 5,000 villages was through a kingdom movement in which Ina people were…
The Bare Essentials of Helping Groups Become Churches
…I was training a group of missionaries in Southeast Asia when we came to the subject of helping small groups (e.g. Bible study groups) actually become churches. The missionaries in this context were struggling to get churches started, not to mention the larger goal of a Church-Planting Movement (CPM). I…
Getting Kingdom Right
…What comes to your mind when you hear about a movement of God in which almost 200 churches were started within three years in a remote people group? What comes to your mind when you hear about a movement of God in which 150,000 urban and rural churches were started…
Kingdom Come!
…"I’ve finished my CPM plan. What do I do next?" At the dawn of the 21st century, God began to unfold an amazing story of kingdom advance in a densely populated corner of Asia. Ying and Grace Kai were laboring in an urban sprawl of crowded factories packed with 10,000…
Someone Has to be First
…As a CPM trainer, I often get requests from missionaries to send them CPM case studies. Their preference is for a study that exactly matches their situation. I get requests like this: Do you have an example of a CPM among educated, post-modern Middle-Eastern Arabs living in Western Europe? I…
The Bible on Church Planting Movements
…Qualified to Lead? A common criticism of church-planting movements (CPMs) is that fairly new believers become leaders of churches. This seems to contradict what Paul says about the qualifications of overseers: He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as…
Training for Trainers Process
…This article was adapted from an upcoming book by Steve Smith (with Ying Kai)--T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution (WIGTake Resources, 2011). Beyond Ministry-as-Usual Ying Kai, a Chinese-American church planter and pastor, served with his wife Grace as a missionary in an Asian city where they were able to start a new…