We are having fish for dinner, and it is going to be delicious. While staying in the U.S. for a couple of months, I have been able to have time for one of my favorite activities – wade fishing with lightweight spincast gear in small rivers and streams for smallmouth and largemouth bass. When we […]
Download article here. A key question for any ministry is, “What are the specific outcomes we’re looking for – and how do current efforts relate to those outcomes?” Phil Butler’s reflections on Evangelism Strategies looks at the communication challenges associated with effective evangelism through seven different perspectives. Evangelism/Church Planting: Process or Event? Different People, Different
Everyone Knows How to Tell a Story, Right? We’ve done it since we began to talk. For many our parents doted on every word whether or not the story actually made sense. This emboldened us to tell even more stories. For the most part we did OK. We learned how to get from point A
It has nothing to do with technology, social networks, or even media in fact. When I reflect on how our ministry has been impacted after learning about Media to Movements (MTM), those simply are not the benefits that come to mind. To be certain, we learned about these things and the training helped me get
Tom Khazoyan explains the role stories can play in your media to movement strategy. The Role of Stories in an M2M Strategy from 10XProd on Vimeo. Tom is an instructor for our Foundations of Media to Movements course. He has been a writer, producer, director, cameraman, and editor on projects ranging from television commercials to
MMU Instructor Adam Johnson does a great job of visually explaining the “2 1⁄2 Percent” paper written by Dr. Frank Preston. AJ is a church planter, urban strategist and missions mobilizer with an emphasis on indigenous church planting using obedience based discipleship methods which catalyze church planting movements. He has been doing church planting
Paul had a clear mandate from Jesus that was validated by a vision and a miracle – to bring the gospel to the Gentiles (as recorded in Acts 9). OK, a few kings and sons of Israel were in the mix, but Paul writes in Galatians that he was the apostle to the Gentiles. He
Both statistical theory and social researchers observe that at least 2 1/2 percent of any society are open for religious change. In fact, John Wesley capitalized on the fact that resistant peoples experience times of openness to the gospel, noting that their openness was fleeting like the blooms on a flower, and the evangelist needed
By: Clyde Taber When I taught a workshop on the Four Elements of Story in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I borrowed most of my material from my story mentor Jeremy Casper. There were a few people who questioned if the “hero’s journey” structure is more of a Western construct. This conversation came up again in a
By: Jeremy Casper I recently returned from a trip to the Middle East where I was blessed to stand before a group of eighteen students from five different countries and teach them about the art of crafting short stories. My overseas teaching experiences are rewarding beyond measure, but the language barrier is always frustrating. Every
