Category: Strategy & Church

• What Next? The 4 Stages of Launching Church Movements

  

  As church planters, “What next?” is probably one of the questions we ask the most. What do we do after reaching the lost? How do we make disciples and train them to train others? How do we form groups and catalyze a movement of reproducing churches? There are so many methods and answers out there…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 25, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

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• A Vision for Missional Living

  

  In our part of the world travel is determined by the weather. No matter how much we plan and prepare our trips can be cut short by the onslaught of monsoons, washed out roads, flooded paths and knee deep mud. In the dry season we are faced with clouds of dust that cake our motorcycle…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  August 31, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  adventure travel, church, church planting, Discipleship, Faith, Global Missions, God, God’s glory, Gospel, jesus, leadership, Missional, Missional Living, Unreached People Groups, vision, Vision Casting

• How to Change the World for Jesus in 7 Easy Steps

  

  The secret (which is not really a secret) to magnifying the fame of God and bringing lasting global change and is to make disciples…who make disciples, who make disciples. In a previous post, I said I’d give you further details about a process called Training for Trainers (T4T). T4T is a simple & reproducible process…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  July 26, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  accountability, Change, church, church planting movement, Disciple Making Movements, Discipleship, Faith, Global Missions, God, God’s glory, jesus, Kingdom, leadership, Missional, orality, prayer, Spirit, T4T, Training for Trainers, transformation, vision

• Our Gospel Aim: Decisions or Disciples?

  

  Last week some friends and I were gathered around a frail woman who was possessed by evil spirits. The woman and her family had come from a rural village several hours away. They were desperate for help and wanted to turn from spirit worship. They decided to put their faith in Jesus. The moment we…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  June 22, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  church, church planting, decisions, demon worship, Discipleship, Drugs, evil spirits, Faith, gangs, Gospel, jesus, leadership, Missions, obedience, orality, Possession, sex, simple, T4T, training, Training for Trainers, vision, western traditions

• Training Trainers: A New Paradigm for Discipleship

  

  No one likes to be told they are doing something wrong, especially leaders, pastors and church planters. We’ve devoted our lives to growing the Church but have we been doing it all wrong? I hate it when I’m wrong. My pride always says that I am right. But my pride can’t argue with results. The…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  May 9, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

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• Easter Doesn’t Exist…For The Unreached

  

  Last week I found myself with a broken motorbike surrounded by jungle and stranded in a mountain pass with no cell phone reception. There was no other choice but to split the group up and push the heavy ass bike back the way we came – up and down the mountain in the heat of…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 19, 2014

  Asian Faith, Missional Living, Strategy & Church

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• Reblog: Over the Mountain & Into the Valley

  

  I just couldn’t resist reblogging this! Here is a post from a friend where she poetically summarizes the 5 highlights of her most epic journey to pray for the unreached in Laos. You can visit her blog here: The Afterglow The highlight of March was going on a prayer journey to The So People.  It all…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  March 31, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

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• Osama Bin Laden and Church Multiplication Movements

  

  One day we Americans turn on the television to find out that Osama Bin Laden is dead. The U.S. President announces that the most wanted terrorist in the world has been double-tapped by a team of highly skilled Navy Seals during a secret raid. That’s so freakin awesome but how did this happen? For more…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  February 26, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

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• Is Faith in the West Dead?

  

  One day I’m sitting on a sky train in a major bustling city sipping Starbucks frappuccino while the next I’m sitting in a thatched hut in a jungle eating a rare and newly discovered species of squirrel.  In both places I get to live life with people who are lost and people who are found.…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 30, 2013

  Strategy & Church

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• Suffering – The Key to Church Movements

  

  Every week I pray that our friends do not get arrested for telling others about Jesus. Whenever I travel I ask God for wisdom each time I am questioned by the police. When I sit down with local leaders and church planters the types of problems we face are: -Who is being followed? -How do…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 9, 2013

  Strategy & Church

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• Obeying vs Knowing

  

  I spoon feed my 11-month old son in front of the T.V.  His eyes are fixated on Baby Einstein and his mouth is wide open. It’s probably not the most stimulating way of doing it but it works well. He gets stuffed and there’s no mess to clean up. Sadly, this is an accurate picture…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  August 12, 2013

  Strategy & Church

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• Don’t Plant A Church

  

  We like to say things like; “I’m a church planter,” “This is our church plant,” or “We planted a church.” As if the Church, a spiritual institution established by the Creator of heaven and earth, actually belongs to us. God’s not in the business of establishing communities of mindless sheep so we can have our…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  July 12, 2013

  Strategy & Church

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• Church Sucks

  

  It’s safe to say that more than half the people on this planet feel that church sucks. They see it as an institution – one that is intolerant, irrelevant, hypocritical and completely out of touch with culture. It’s also safe to say that the other half of this planet have no official opinion of church because they’ve never formulated…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 10, 2013

  Strategy & Church

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