Paul: How to finance the revolution
Instead of investing in church buildings, church programs and church staffs, believers will need to see the value of investing in those who are called to begin and nurture church planting movements. This thoroughly Biblical concept must be once again understood, taught and practiced by the church. Let’s invest the next $500,000,000,000 the way Scripture directs us to!
10:2b… Pray like the Widow Lady
The objective of the Leader 101 Course is to cultivate the habits of highly effective spiritual leaders. We started last month (June 2015) with cultivating the habit of joy. As we move to a new habit for July, remember that joy is foundational to everything else that we do. So, continue the spiritual disciplines you […]
Revolutionary Networks
In this blog, which we call “Stories from the Revolution”, we try and capture some of the best stories about the amazing spiritual revolution that is going on in the US and around the world. In this revolution, where the church is returning to the home, we are seeing many house churches connecting in relational […]
Using CO2s to Plant House Churches
About a year ago, Sean Hyatt (Aurora, CO) felt the Lord directing him to begin doing a CO2 (church of two) with his family. (Since this included his wife and three children, it really was a CO5!) Sean has been faithful in this for almost a year now. See my four part interview with him […]
CO2 in Australia (3)
Today is the last segment of my interview with Maree Watson from Australia. Here are some things that strike me in this video (see below)… *Mission flows spontaneously from listening. No one told Maree that she “should” reach out to her friends. She very naturally saw that her shop (she’s a hairdresser) is her place […]
CO2 in Australia (2)
In part two of my interview with Maree, she describes her experience with “two way” journaling. Her journal has become her “treasured possession” because it’s her way of remembering all that the Lord has been teaching her. She observes that the “guilt thing” (“I haven’t read my Bible in four days!”) is completely gone because […]
CO2 in Australia (1)
Every CO2 story is unique and carries with it important lessons that we all can learn from. In the first part of my interview below with Maree Watson from Australia, I was impressed with several things. First, we can see that the simple CO2 “virus” is easy to catch. Maree didn’t even catch it from […]