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Editorial Comment
Moving From Attracting Spectators to Equipping Disciple-Makers
Tags: america, church planting, discipleship, willow creek
Some readers may ask, “Why all this talk about how to do church? I thought this was a missions magazine? As we bring the gospel to the unreached peoples, an essential question is what type of...
Planting Indigenous Churches
Missionary Money Muzzles Movement
Tags: church planting, money, movement, muslim
Imagine the following recruiting bulletin for a new mission field:
Today we are seeing a rapidly growing number of new believers among certain unreached people groups. More and more Muslims are...
Mapping the Unfinished Task
Tags: church planting, great commission, map, mission
The Holy Spirit cannot lead you on the basis of information you do not have.” This provocative statement is one which Ralph Winter was often known to recite. Though obviously a generalization,...
Disciple Making & Church Planting
God’s Way to Transform Nations
Tags: church planting, discipleship, nations, transformation, ywam
Excerpted from You See Bones, I See an Army: Changing the Way We Do Church1
Jesus bypassed the cumbersome religious structures and irrelevant worship practices of his day, and started something...
John Wesley’s Church Planting Movement:
Discipleship That Transformed a Nation and Changed the World
Tags: church planting, discipleship, methodists, movement, poverty, wesley
When John Wesley was born in 1703, four million out of Britain’s five million people lived in absolute poverty—unless they found enough food for that day, they would begin to starve to death.
...Turning Wine into Clean Water?
An invitation to Explore the Possibilities
Church Planting Movements are changing the spiritual landscape among many poor populations. The intention for such movements to be self-funding through bivocational leadership suggests a natural...Church Planting Movements from One Indian Perspective
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Why don’t most ministries produce the kind of fruit evident in the book of Acts?
How is it that “all of Asia” heard the word of the Lord in just two years (Acts 19:8–12)?
How can the house...
10 Church Planting Movement FAQs
Tags: church planting, movement
1. What is a CPM?
A definition for Church Planting Movements (CPMs) that has held sway for more than a decade is: “a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweeps...
Church Planting Movements Among Muslim Peoples
Tags: church planting, islam, movement, muslim
Some historians have described the spread of the gospel as if it were a divinely driven wind that has swept through history. They contend that what began in Jerusalem blew westward across Europe...
Church Planting Movements: What Have We Learned?
Tags: church planting, movement
Note by Rick Wood: In the April 2000 issue of Mission Frontiers we reprinted the booklet, Church Planting Movements by David Garrison because of the key insights it held for the rapid...