“My conviction is that we over-teach Christians and under-teach non-Christians.” This article originally appeared in the May/June 2005 issue of Outreach magazine. The key to evangelism in the New World is the same as it was in the first century—creating environments where people...
The ABC of Church Planting
posted by Dean Thomas
Sometime ago I wrote an article about the 3 “f’s” of my church planting journey fear, finances and failure. Since then nothing much has changed. Those three things are still there but I thought it was time I did a follow-up – this time about the ABC’s of Church planting from the perspective of someone like me… overworked, overstressed, overweight, underpaid, underachieving, undertheweather! One of the things I remember vividly about church in my younger days was the complete lack of excitement. People just gathered, sang a few songs which were unlike any of the songs I heard on the radio, rehashed the same...
FIRE2010 Podcast Sat...
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FIRE2010 Saturday PM session… ‘the other track’ by John Tanner
FIRE2010 Podcast Sat...
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FIRE2010 Saturday AM session… ‘power power power’ by Colin Stoodley
FIRE2010 Podcast Fri...
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FIRE2010 Friday ‘I am ok with that?’ ‘Are you ok with that?’ The question we need to ask… a lot. by Dean Thomas
Exponential Decay – ...
posted by Dean Thomas
I came across an article the other day from the ‘Boston Globe’ talking about the increasing difficulty of making new discoveries. I discovered (no pun intended) that until recently no one has really tried to measure the increasing difficulty of discovery. The name given to this new type of...
Where are the leader...
posted by Dean Thomas
About six years ago the German football team was at a crossroads. They were playing what many people thought was a boring brand of the beautiful game. They were a defensive team and while they could sometimes win on the counter when it came to winning a game with their own strategy they...
The Phases that lead...
posted by Dean Thomas
(the first of three conversation starters outlining the key features in the process of beginning new faith communities that lead to multiplication). The phases of church planting have been discussed before and I am not introducing anything new to you in these articles. But for the past few...