Principles and Practices for Church Reproduction
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by Daniel Im
4M ago
A few years ago, Ed Stetzer and I co-wrote a resource to catalyze movemental church planting. It’s called “1,000 Churches: How Past Movements Did It—And How Your Church Can, Too.” This is the final chapter. In order to experience a movement of multiplication and plant 1,000 churches in your lifetime, you need to multiply everything: disciples, leaders, groups, ministries, and churches. Multiplication needs to literally become the core value for your church. It has to be so core that it becomes viral—spreading, infecting, and reproducing everywhere. From the foundation of a church, success nee ..read more
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Pastor, Here are 3 Reasons to Leave Your Church (according to Eugene Peterson)
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by Daniel Im
4M ago
After (what is typically) a long season of discernment and transition, starting a new role in pastoral ministry is exciting. A new context with new people often results in new ideas for ministry! It’s also a time to re-try ideas (with adaptation) that didn’t work in your previous context. Plus, you have the chance to share all of your stories to people who have never heard them. And while I would never advise any pastor to start their new role with their hand on the rip cord—just waiting for any sort of reason to leave—there are some reasons to leave. I came across these three reasons to leave ..read more
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Movement Characteristics
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by Daniel Im
5M ago
A few years ago, Ed Stetzer and I co-wrote a resource to catalyze movemental church planting. It’s called “1,000 Churches: How Past Movements Did It—And How Your Church Can, Too.” Over the next few weeks, I will re-post a chapter at a time. The following is Chapter 3: Movement Characteristics. In order to start a movement and plant 1,000 churches in your lifetime, you need to think about church planting through the lens of rabbits and elephants. Years ago, I (Ed) remember preaching at a conference where I felt like the odd man out. It was like that song from Sesame Street, “One of these thing ..read more
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A Brief History of Movements
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by Daniel Im
5M ago
A few years ago, Ed Stetzer and I co-wrote a resource to catalyze movemental church planting. It’s called “1,000 Churches: How Past Movements Did It—And How Your Church Can, Too.” Over the next few weeks, I will re-post a chapter at a time. Here is the Introduction. The following is Chapter 1: A Brief History of Recent Movements. Join us on a short journey exploring the recent history of significant movements that have shaped what we’re seeing in the West today. This history is important to digest as we look forward to the possibilities that lie ahead—with God! Less than 50 years ago, a movem ..read more
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Mass Gatherings and Church Multiplication Movements
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by Daniel Im
6M ago
A few years ago, Ed Stetzer and I co-wrote a resource to catalyze movemental church planting. It’s called “1,000 Churches: How Past Movements Did It—And How Your Church Can, Too.” Over the next few weeks, I will re-post a chapter at a time. The following is the Introduction: Mass Gatherings and Movements. The year 2011 was the year of social media, mass gatherings, and movements, or as we now know it, The Arab Spring. It’s believed to have all started in Tunisia when a 26-year-old man, who was trying to sell fruits and vegetables in order to support his widowed mother and six siblings, had hi ..read more
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How many sermons does it take to find your sound?
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by Daniel Im
11M ago
“It takes 200 sermons, before you know how to preach one.” I’ve been wrestling with this statement, ever since I heard this from a seasoned preacher who was a couple decades older than me. He was essentially asserting that you need to preach approximately 200 sermons… Before you can discover your voice To understand how to preach the way that God designed you to speak In order to know what sort of preacher (and pitcher) you are This makes sense (more on the parallel to pitching down below). After all, sermons aren’t general evergreen content that can be re-used and re-preached exactly as-is ..read more
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Working Genius vs. StrengthsFinder (CliftonStrengths)
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by Daniel Im
1y ago
In the leadership world, there’s been a huge uptake of the Working Genius. Bravo to Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group for putting out an extraordinary assessment and tool to help leaders and organizations discover the six phases of work, and how to work better with each other! Even though I’ve been a certified Gallup Strengths Performance Coach (Strengths Advisor) since 2008, that’s not the only assessment that I use in my leadership and coaching. In fact, when I find one that fills a unique role, I become as much of an advocate for that one as I am with the StrengthsFinder assessment (now ..read more
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Great and Meaningful Work
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by Daniel Im
1y ago
“I want this to be a place where you can do great and meaningful work with the people that you love.” That’s what I shared with my staff team at Beulah when we were celebrating our certification as a Best Christian Workplace for 2022. It was our best year ever, as our overall score marked us as flourishing. Now according to Best Christian Workplaces, there are eight keys to a flourishing workplace culture, and I was excited to see that we grew in every single area compared to the previous year: Fantastic Teams Life-Giving Work Outstanding Talent Uplifting Growth Rewarding Compensation Inspira ..read more
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“Judge not” is not about being blind
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by Daniel Im
1y ago
We live in such an interesting point in time, don’t we? On the one hand, we’re encouraged to rate and review everything—our favourite restaurants, businesses, workouts, books, podcasts, shows, and even professors and doctors! In fact, not only are we encouraged, but we’re even incentivized to do so! But at the same time, we’re also drowning in criticism, contempt, and a wildfire of seemingly knee-jerk reactions and poorly thought-out opinions to tweets, rumours, and news articles—both real and fake. Hmm…I wonder if there’s a connection? When Jesus said, “Do not judge, so that you won’t be judg ..read more
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Living and Drifting when in Transition
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by Daniel Im
1y ago
Have you heard about The World’s Toughest Race? It was a 671 km race over 11 days in Fiji that involved paddling, sailing, mountain biking, whitewater rafting, rappelling, climbing, and canyoneering. That’s the equivalent to 16 marathons, but multiplied exponentially in difficulty! When you watch the first episode, everyone is absolutely stoked, excited, and revved up to compete. Of the 60 teams from 30 countries, some have been training for months, and others for years. During the race, the top teams slept only a few hours a day, if even. In fact, one team who dropped out in the middle only s ..read more
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