Ever since reading a blurb about a new title by Derek Tidball, I was interested in cracking this book and exploring his premise. Tidball hopes to combat “the ‘McDonaldized’ version of ministry so common today.”
I’ve been making my way through Dan Allender’s Leading with a Limp. The book’s value has been upped by a series of small group discussion times I was invited to participate in, but even without the benefit of real-time, transparent conversations, this one is a must-read.
Here are a couple quotes I’ve been chewing on.
Being [...]
One exciting aspect of church planting is taking a big picture vision and adding detail and color so that it begins to take shape for other people. Case in point: Now you can download a Prospectus for Crossroads Church (working title).
This file, which reads somewhat like an adventure story, gives background on our purpose, our [...]
After the repeated mention Spiritual Leadership got on Steve McCoy’s blog, I decided I’d better give Oswald Sanders‘ book a shot. I’m happy I did. Stuffed with references to heroic missionaries and Christian leaders of the 20th century, the book is a shotgun approach to the topic of leadership that does a good job showing [...]
Here’s the next installment in the Church Planting w/ Small Groups series.
________See also Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4, & Part 5_______
Multiply leaders and small groups regularly.
If a weakness of small groups is their tendency to become inward-focused, the contrasting strength is the potential to give participants numerous opportunities for discipleship [...]
