A Week In My Life
I know you don’t read this e-letter to find out about our schedule, but let me explain what is happening at the moment, at least those things that I believe you will find interesting.
• I would like to link you to the most significant article that I have read in the past week. It is a summary written by a pastor who attended one of David Watson’s teaching sessions on Church Planting Movements. It covers effectively a lot of material that David presents, and raised some questions that this Pastor found as challenges. Here is a short section, as written by Charles Kiser, the Pastor, that acts as a summary of the summary!
The basic process of starting CPM churches is: 1) church planter finds access to friendship with disconnected people; 2) church planter serves and loves disconnected friends; 3) church planter identifies a person of peace out of those friends; 4) church planter works with person of peace to invite his/her social unit (family or affinity group) into a 15-30 week inductive Bible study led by person of peace or someone else from social unit; 5) the group decides to follow Jesus and becomes a church; 6) new churches send out church planters to start the process again.
If you want to see the whole article, which is well worth the read, please go to this link and look at the latest e-letter to go out around the 24th of May.
• I have the privilege of meeting with some of the most fascinating people. This coming week Felicity and I will be organizing a time with Ed Thomas and a team from the Global Media Outreach. To quote from his most recent email to me, “For your information 192,822 visitors came to the 91 websites of GMO yesterday; 34,351 made decisions to accept Christ and 7,032 asked to have follow-up. WOW!!” We are getting together later this week with Ed and with some friends here in the Austin area to brainstorm how house churches with their primary resource of committed people can be engaged to help in discipling people who are coming to Christ. What a privilege and what an opportunity.
• On Tuesday of this week Felicity and I are being interviewed about our new book, The Rabbit and The Elephant, by Chris Walker of the blog www.evangelismcoach.org . He has asked us to let you know about this interview and see if any of you want to register to be a part of it. Registration is free and can be done at http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2009/the-rabbit-and-the-elephant-webinar/. He is also giving away two copies of the book to two registrants for the interview, so this is a great chance to be one of the first to be able to get hold of this great (in our opinion anyway!!) book. The book is actually launched on June 1st, and so I will mention how to get hold of it in my next blog.
• I would like to link you to the most significant article that I have read in the past week. It is a summary written by a pastor who attended one of David Watson’s teaching sessions on Church Planting Movements. It covers effectively a lot of material that David presents, and raised some questions that this Pastor found as challenges. Here is a short section, as written by Charles Kiser, the Pastor, that acts as a summary of the summary!
The basic process of starting CPM churches is: 1) church planter finds access to friendship with disconnected people; 2) church planter serves and loves disconnected friends; 3) church planter identifies a person of peace out of those friends; 4) church planter works with person of peace to invite his/her social unit (family or affinity group) into a 15-30 week inductive Bible study led by person of peace or someone else from social unit; 5) the group decides to follow Jesus and becomes a church; 6) new churches send out church planters to start the process again.
If you want to see the whole article, which is well worth the read, please go to this link and look at the latest e-letter to go out around the 24th of May.
• I have the privilege of meeting with some of the most fascinating people. This coming week Felicity and I will be organizing a time with Ed Thomas and a team from the Global Media Outreach. To quote from his most recent email to me, “For your information 192,822 visitors came to the 91 websites of GMO yesterday; 34,351 made decisions to accept Christ and 7,032 asked to have follow-up. WOW!!” We are getting together later this week with Ed and with some friends here in the Austin area to brainstorm how house churches with their primary resource of committed people can be engaged to help in discipling people who are coming to Christ. What a privilege and what an opportunity.
• On Tuesday of this week Felicity and I are being interviewed about our new book, The Rabbit and The Elephant, by Chris Walker of the blog www.evangelismcoach.org . He has asked us to let you know about this interview and see if any of you want to register to be a part of it. Registration is free and can be done at http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2009/the-rabbit-and-the-elephant-webinar/. He is also giving away two copies of the book to two registrants for the interview, so this is a great chance to be one of the first to be able to get hold of this great (in our opinion anyway!!) book. The book is actually launched on June 1st, and so I will mention how to get hold of it in my next blog.
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