Mobilizing Movements
Murray Moerman has been married to Carol for forty-four years. They are parents to five married children and enjoy God’s gift of eleven grandchildren. Murray started church planting in 1975 and served as pastor and daughter-church planter in the Vancouver area until 1995. During this season he earned a D.Min. from Fuller Seminary. He joined Outreach Canada to initiate a national church planting process, Church Planting Canada, and led the movement for ten years. He and Carol then moved to Europe to serve the mission, One Challenge, as Area Director. For five years Murray led an intercultural partnership to train Muslims coming to Christ in Europe and North Africa. During this time, he helped found the Global Church Planting Network, which he led from 2009 to 2016. He currently leads the national initiatives team in GCPN and serves several partnerships, globally and locally, including the SCP Taskforce and Pray Ridge Meadows
Accelerating Movements
As record numbers of people around the world respond to Christ, a need for community, structure, and leadership is emerging. Disciple-making and church planting must extend to the most remote areas of every people group and nation to assist individuals as they come to Christ. Lasting movements build on specific traits and strategies in both teams and leadership, including divine passion that lasts beyond whims and hardships.
Murray Moerman provides realistic expectations of what it takes to facilitate a movement and how to gain the support of various partners needed for long-term success, resulting in whole-nation church planting saturation. Based on years of research, Mobilizing Movements contains both practical and spiritual elements. You will find insights and models from several continents for macro (whole nation) strategies and micro (personal) disciple-making. Features include:
- Key component of healthy movements
- Nine accelerants for movements
- Analysis of seven challenging contexts in which movements can still flourish
- Practical strategies scalable to your capacity and context
Writing for novices as well as practitioners, Moerman casts a vision for completing the Great Commission and invites us to mobilize movements.
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An invaluable contribution—comprehensive, inspirational, and practical—for all of us who long to see the kingdom of God expanded by seeing whole nations discipled. Backed by a life of experience, Murray uses his pastoral heart to relate the nitty gritty of how to develop effective national church-planting processes around the world.
— Ron Anderson, catalyst, Lausanne Church -
Moerman has offered the global church a great gift, the gift of synthesis. Learning from forty years of church planting strategies, looking at current trends in DMM and CMP, and discerning the challenges of our time for missions engagement, Moerman offers a practical guide for denominational leaders, church planters, and apostolic leaders to think critically about how their praxis can contribute to the goal of discipling all nations. A must read!
— Dr. Raphaël Anzenberger, leadership team, PC2P.org facilitator, Global SCP Taskforce -
In Mobilizing Movements, Murray Moerman fills an important gap in kingdom literature. Few people have written books on saturation church planting (SCP) in recent years, and even fewer on the role of movements in SCP. These two massively important topics are made for one another. SCP is an important goal, and movements are the primary means by which to achieve this goal. To consider either without the other is to miss a key connection for achieving the advance of the kingdom and the completion of the Great Commission. Murray writes from a position of considerable experience on several levels, most notably in his leadership of the Global church planting Network.
— Dr. Curtis Sergeant, founder, MetaCamp; leader, Zúme; co-facilitator, 24:14 -
Mobilizing Movements is a book for our time. It’s a practical tool to empower leaders in multiplying disciples that will transform this world so needy for our Lord Jesus Christ. World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) recognizes that discipleship is core to the mission of Jesus. That’s why it works toward instilling disciple-making as an evangelical DNA and welcomes discipleship resources like Mobilizing Movements.
— Bishop Efraim Tendero, secretary general, WEA
Preface
Glossary: Terms and Acronyms
Part 1: A View from the Top
Chapter 1: The Big Idea: Discipling Your Nation
Chapter 2: Disciple-Making and Church-Planting: Insights to Build On
Chapter 3: Practical and Tactical Beginnings
Chapter 4: Accelerants
Chapter 5: A Study in Nationwide Disciple-Making Processes, by Russ Mitchell
Part 2: Starting Where You Are
Chapter 6: Initiating a National Process
Chapter 7: Diverse and Challenging Contexts
Chapter 8: Models on Other Continents
Part 3: Components of a National Vision
Chapter 9: Leadership
Chapter 10: Harvest Field, Harvest Force, Harvest Fruit
Chapter 11: Purposeful Planning: To What End?
Chapter 12: Engaging Leaders Across Your Nation
Chapter 13: Building the Kingdom Locally and Nationally
Chapter 14: Prayer and Action
Chapter 15: Quality and Quantity
Chapter 16: Consolidate and (Re)Build Part 4: Where to . . . Globally?
Chapter 17: You Are Not Alone
Chapter 18: Good Etiquette for Guests
Chapter 19: Joyful Redundancy
Chapter 20: The King Is Coming
Chapter 21: Steps after the Penultimate
Appendices
Appendix 1: It’s a DAWN Strategy If ..., Dr. James H. Montgomery
Appendix 2: 13 Steps to a Successful Growth Program, Dr. James H. Montgomery
Appendix 3: Best Practices from Europe (NC2P.org)
Appendix 4: National Team Self-Evaluation
Appendix 5: Encouragement for Incremental Progress
Appendix 6: Setting Priorities
Appendix 7: Further Resources and Author’s Website
For Further Reading
Index
About the Author
Author
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Murray Moerman
Murray Moerman
Murray Moerman has been married to Carol for forty-four years. They are parents to five married children and enjoy God’s gift of eleven grandchildren. Murray started church planting in 1975 and served as pastor and daughter-church planter in the Vancouver area until 1995. During this season he earned a D.Min. from Fuller Seminary. He joined Outreach Canada to initiate a national church planting process, Church Planting Canada, and led the movement for ten years. He and Carol then moved to Europe to serve the mission, One Challenge, as Area Director. For five years Murray led an intercultural partnership to train Muslims coming to Christ in Europe and North Africa. During this time, he helped found the Global Church Planting Network, which he led from 2009 to 2016. He currently leads the national initiatives team in GCPN and serves several partnerships, globally and locally, including the SCP Taskforce and Pray Ridge Meadows
- Pages: 286
- Publisher:
William Carey Publishing
William Carey Publishing
- Binding: paperback
- Publish Year: 2021
- Vendor: William Carey Publishing
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