Status Updates From The Rise and Fall of Moveme...

“These are the signs of a movement in decline:

1) The world invades the church
2) Centralized power and control
3) Culpable blindness”
(Pg. 110)

“Founders are unreasonable people, refusing to accept the world as it is. Movements are born because something needs to change. Founders help people see what’s wrong and how to put things first. Movement founders raise the levels of discontent by pointing to the gap between what is and what should be.” (Pg. 63)

“The key to the rapid growth of any movement is face-to-face recruitment within pte-existing social networks. The stronger the social network, the faster the movement spreads. Movements made up of a collection of casual acquaintances will lack energy, commitment, and focus.” (Pg. 54).

“A church with a ministry mindset finds it hard to see beyond its own achievements; a church with a movement mindset is not impressed with the the numbers in the auditorium, but with generations of new disciples, new workers, new churches.” (Pg. 33)