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Specifically relevant for the CCC movement, this article explores the expressions of local church, the characteristics of a healthy church and effective methods to plant and grow healthy churches.

Jesus cultivated a movement of disciplemaking which continued beyond His ascension to heaven. SHIFTm2M is a process by which Christian leaders walk through the span of Jesus’ life to learn from His movement building and to apply the principles to their lives – to intentionally shift from doing ministry to cultivating movements.  The purpose of this overview of the book of Acts is to explore how the early apostolic church cultivated the movement building of Jesus.

This paper, also presented at a GYI Forum, looks hard at the role of suffering in leadership and how Jesus responded to it. I Peter 2:21 tells us that Jesus left us a pattern to follow in suffering, and Dr. Spader addresses that from his understanding of the Life of Christ. A special section addressing the role of Jesus suffering as being “progressive, complete, and weighty”, has proven to be very helpful for many in a fresh understanding of Jesus’ humanity. Again, this paper is written with discussion questions, making it a great staff development tool.

Dann Spader has grown several ministries through the multiplication phase and multiplied Sonlife Classic to thousands of leaders on every continent. In this article he discusses 9 biblical principles and 8 practical realities in allowing multiplication to happen.  Quoting from the business community as well as the Scriptures, this article is written to allow staff discussion and interaction.

As many of us have known it, church has been disrupted. This has been a challenging experience, but rather than returning to church-as-usual, what are the opportunities to re-imagining church in our homes and communities?

Many people are re-discovering the possibilities of church at home, worshipping and serving households of faith. So how can we ensure faithfulness, sustainability and witness when the church goes home?

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In this episode, Andy talks about the necessary foundations that ultimately set people up to participate in Evangelism Like Jesus. He talks about some practical tools and ways to develop the necessary traits of Jesus, for effective outreach. Becoming what you want to multiply in life, is a strong focus of the training through The Emerging Leaders program. Having a solid understanding of how to do mission is important, having the tools to implement that knowledge is vital. Andy talks about both in this enlightening interview.