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2020
- 10/09 Roundup #223
- 10/02 Roundup #222
- 10/01 Movements that plateau as distinct from those few…
- 09/25 Roundup #221
- 09/18 Roundup #220
- 09/11 Roundup #219
- 09/04 Roundup #218
- 08/28 Roundup #216
- 08/28 Roundup #217
- 08/07 Roundup #215
- 07/30 Roundup #214
- 07/24 Roundup #213
- 07/17 Roundup #212
- 07/13 Covid-19 July Observations
- 07/10 Roundup #211
- 07/03 Roundup #210
- 06/28 Roundup #165
- 06/27 Gospel Vectors
- 06/26 Why rapid growth declines as movements increase in size
- 06/26 Roundup #209
- 06/19 Roundup #208
- 06/12 Roundup #207
- 06/10 Growth leads to persecution
- 06/05 Roundup #206
- 05/29 Roundup #205
- 05/18 Changes in speed of religious growth
- 05/15 Roundup #204
- 05/08 Roundup #203
- 05/01 Roundup #202
- 04/27 North Korea–knowing what we don’t know
- 04/24 Roundup #201
- 04/17 Roundup #200
- 04/17 Higher case fatality rates can signal smaller infection totals
- 04/03 Roundup #198
- 03/27 Roundup #197
- 03/20 Roundup #196
- 03/13 Roundup #195
- 03/06 Out of sight
- 03/06 Roundup #194
- 02/28 Roundup #193
- 02/21 Roundup #192
- 02/14 Roundup #191
- 02/07 Roundup #190
- 02/03 How many Christians are among the American expatriates working abroad?
- 01/24 Roundup #189
- 01/17 Church growth, 1910-2020
- 01/16 Church growth & decline vs. population sizes
- 01/10 Roundup #188
2019
- 12/20 Roundup #187
- 12/13 Roundup #186
- 12/12 How many people groups need Bible translations?
- 12/12 How many people groups need Bible translations?
- 12/06 Roundup #185
- 11/22 Roundup #184
- 11/15 Roundup #183
- 11/08 Roundup #182
- 11/01 Roundup #181
- 10/25 Roundup #180
- 10/18 Why can’t both get priority?
- 10/18 Roundup #179
- 10/15 How Movements Count
- 10/11 Roundup #178
- 10/04 Roundup #177
- 09/30 Enemies
- 09/29 Cuts in refugee policy
- 09/28 Don’t wait for total knowledge
- 09/27 Roundup #176
- 09/27 Long-term conversations: one plants, one waters
- 09/26 There is a solution
- 09/20 Roundup #175
- 09/17 The largest, least Christian peoples
- 09/16 Roundup #174
- 09/06 Roundup #173
- 08/16 Roundup #172
- 08/15 Baptism doublings
- 08/14 Where 2 or 3 are suspect
- 08/09 Roundup #171
- 08/02 Roundup #170
- 07/30 Suffering
- 07/26 Roundup #169
- 07/12 Roundup #167
- 07/05 Roundup #166
- 06/21 Roundup #164
- 06/19 Roundup #168
- 06/07 Roundup #163
- 05/17 Roundup #161
- 05/10 Roundup #160
- 05/03 Roundup #159
- 05/01 Roundup #162
- 04/26 Roundup #158
- 04/19 Roundup #157
- 04/12 Roundup #156
- 02/05 Unreached is not
- 01/05 Invite the church to people
- 01/04 When the cost of our strategy is too high
- 01/03 The Big 5
2018
- 12/17 Balance
- 12/11 It won’t be heaven if…?
- 12/10 Worship in many languages
- 12/09 The value of marketing
- 12/08 Odd paradoxes in the Christian community
- 12/06 When patriotism can kill the soul
- 12/04 The spiritually mature
- 12/01 Missionary martyrdom isn’t unusual
- 11/30 Are you a missionary?
- 11/29 Chau–failure, martyr or what?
- 11/28 Questions about whether a group is reached
- 11/26 Defining a missiological breakthrough
- 11/25 For the kingdom to spread
- 11/24 Investment times
- 11/23 4 types of people critical to movements
- 11/22 Festivals of Thanksgiving
- 11/21 Eternal perspective
- 11/20 Strategies in the midst of quasi-Christian, post-Christian, non-Christian environments
- 11/19 A simple calculation
- 11/16 Another view of people groups
- 11/02 Counting movements 4: Goal posts
- 10/30 Counting movements 3: pots, bushes, sycamores
- 10/29 Counting movements 2, grandparents to grandchildren
- 10/25 Counting movements 1: believers & churches in denominations
- 10/24 Choosing friends
- 10/22 Mission degrees and debt
- 10/19 There’s no work here
- 10/18 Money on missions vs Halloween pet costumes
- 10/11 Every place and people group needs a worker
- 09/04 Categories of Progress
- 08/23 Women in missions
- 08/09 How fast movements need to grow
- 05/22 Throwing back starfish
- 05/21 Are Muslim birth rates faster than Christian birth rates?
- 05/19 Is Christianity growing or shrinking in individual countries?
- 05/17 A simple recruiting/mobilization interview
- 05/11 What keeps us from decisions
- 05/10 Hubs
- 05/08 Globalization, diaspora, and where the unreached are
- 05/06 The value of limits coupled with the value of diversity
- 05/05 The hype around North Korea
- 04/25 Not saying yes
- 04/24 This is not the end
- 04/20 Urbanization probably higher than 55%
- 04/19 Control vs Empowerment Structures
- 04/18 Small spaces and security
- 04/17 Surveillance in China
- 04/16 Security, fear, pride
- 04/14 Why movements succeed
- 04/13 Is USA’s Millennial (Gen-Z) generation post-Christian?
- 04/12 First, Multiply
- 04/09 Levels of mission involvement
- 04/03 Student debt
- 04/02 Resurrection vs Raising
- 04/01 Easter is the proof
- 03/31 Experiments
- 03/28 Four marks of a good candidate
- 03/27 Church gathering
- 03/26 What we mean by “unreached”, and the importance of reaching them
- 03/24 Categories of Difficulty
- 03/23 50,000 American workers?
- 03/22 As movements grow, growth speed degrades
- 03/19 The difficulties of defining closure
- 03/16 If demography is destiny
- 03/15 How can I know the will of God?
- 03/09 The Matthew Effect in missions
- 02/27 The “heresy” or “wrong knowledge” objection to movements
- 02/05 Top 10 most challenging people groups
- 01/29 What countries have the most potential to be strong sending countries?
- 01/19 Does mission recruiting overlook the poor?
2017
- 11/15 Concentrations of American workers
- 11/13 Missionary biographies
- 11/09 Is France reached?
- 11/08 Huge populations
- 11/06 Will Saudi Arabia be able to moderate Islam, or itself?
- 11/02 Festivals and stories
- 08/14 Titanic and professionalism
- 08/11 Closure as a Biblical concept
- 02/20 Can a nation be changed in a day?
- 02/01 Are the numbers of Muslims coming to Christ too small?
- 01/27 The tyranny of the “new”
- 01/25 Deciding where to go
- 01/24 Who is growing fastest
- 01/23 Pain
- 01/17 We are not all apostles
- 01/16 Choosing God’s presence
- 01/15 The workers are in the harvest?
- 01/14 Drucker for missions
- 01/12 Because it matters
- 01/11 Annoyances
- 01/10 Why is the remaining task not getting finished, when…
- 01/09 Success and what matters
- 01/07 The easiest way to self-organize the Great Commission
- 01/06 The key thing about failure is what we learn
- 01/05 Prioritizing
- 01/04 The 80/20 Rule and the time it takes movements to start
- 01/03 Rural populations are still large
- 01/01 January 1
2016
- 12/28 Movements and training
- 12/25 Incarnation
- 12/24 Holding our breath
- 12/22 Wrestling with the mystery
- 12/21 Redeeming the time
- 12/20 Faithful witness vs pioneering
- 12/19 Wartime lifestyle
- 12/14 Bearing fruit too late
- 12/13 Nuances of the unreached definition
- 12/06 Journeys
- 12/05 Is Islam growing faster than Christianity?
- 12/01 What makes DBS powerful
- 11/30 Adjust behavior accordingly
- 11/29 The price of fear
- 11/28 Mute
- 11/25 The importance of done
- 11/24 Collecting holidays
- 11/23 Putting the trees in the context of the forests
- 11/22 The purpose of peoples lists
- 11/20 Missional Labor Clouds
- 11/19 More money on dog food
- 11/18 Short-term, Long-term, expats, nationals and the e-Scale
- 11/15 Reachedness and situations of need
- 11/09 Inspire
- 11/08 Asians as % of world, and Asian Christianity
- 11/07 Simultaneous = Synonymous = Speed
- 11/06 Less than 10% Christian
- 11/05 We would like
- 11/04 Innovation in World Mission
- 11/03 Apples, oranges, and categories of time
- 11/02 How common are missionary candidates in a population, and how many might we send?
- 11/01 The influence of our information sources on our worldview
- 10/31 Ethne vs Geo
- 10/30 Societies vs Agencies
- 10/29 Doing the impossible
- 10/28 Connections and Connectedness
- 10/27 The power of distant social connections
- 10/04 Can the task be finished?
- 09/10 Liberation
- 09/09 People, more than peoples
- 09/08 Is Islam being hollowed out by falling birth rates?
- 09/03 and then the end will come
- 09/02 when to struggle through, when to quit/iterate
- 09/01 Mission disruption, 3
- 08/31 Revisiting marriage in heaven
- 08/30 Mission disruption, 2
- 08/29 Mission disruption
- 08/28 Strong v Weak Friendships
- 08/22 Building disciple-making capacity in local churches
- 08/19 Christian spycraft
- 08/18 Cultural Christianity
- 06/10 Are the swelling ranks of short-termers actually a bad thing?
- 06/07 Less sensitive scales
- 05/23 Thresholds of reachedness
- 05/18 A better way to map churches globally
- 05/16 Population concentrations mapped by density
- 05/10 Measuring reachedness by measuring who is reaching out
- 05/08 The future of urbanization
- 05/07 If you are the average of the 5 people you associate with most
- 05/02 Only 400 people groups–or 2.9 billion people?
- 04/25 Might mobilizers make good missionaries?
- 04/24 When will the world be over half evangelical?
- 04/18 The strategic value of mapping people to places
- 04/17 Don’t do it for them
- 04/16 The most probable 2016 of Syria–a stalemate of death
- 04/15 Discovering vs Shaping candidates
- 04/13 The role of persecution in movements
- 04/12 Is the 10/40 Window still a valid mobilization tool?
- 04/11 Regression to the mean
- 04/08 Relationships before location
- 04/05 Discovering defaults
- 04/04 Imperfect disciples
- 04/03 Unreached, non-Christians and friendship
- 04/02 Annual growth rates–aging, literates and total population
- 04/01 Country categories
- 03/30 Fishers, fishing and analogies
- 03/23 Protection and the hand of God
- 03/16 Wealth is
- 03/14 Africa and casual communication
- 03/13 Continuous training
- 03/12 Busyness
- 03/11 Power conferred
- 03/10 The dark side of a call
- 03/09 Growth for growth’s sake
- 03/08 Power
- 03/07 Faith, trust, and hope in the parenthesis
- 03/06 Airplane mode
- 03/05 The importance of automation
- 03/04 Realistic date projections
- 03/03 Why some should hear twice when some haven’t heard once
- 03/02 If not you
- 03/01 We need more workers Because there are…
- 02/29 Status of Global Mission 2016
- 02/28 An extra day
- 02/27 Unpopular things
- 02/26 Other peoples’ eyes
- 02/25 If they are coming here, why bother going there?
- 02/24 Why we serve
- 02/23 Discipling households vs individuals
- 02/22 Are there too many denominations?
- 02/21 Nexus and Edge Hub People as Missionary Candidate Recommenders
- 02/20 The dangers of creativity
- 02/19 The future of Afghanistan
- 02/18 The end of the task is getting further away
- 02/17 Defying the odds
- 02/16 The cost of the difference
- 02/15 Wealth can make, break or take
- 02/14 Can I be involved in mission if I’m not on the field?
- 02/13 Pastoral care from small groups
- 02/12 Dependency
- 02/11 Tool-makers, tool users
- 02/10 Calling vs Surrender
- 02/09 Is the Bible alone enough?
- 02/08 Mission Meetups
- 02/04 Kinds of Learning
- 02/02 Networking Recommenders–Missionary Magnets, Candidate Curators
- 02/01 The likely future of Somalia–stabilizing, but still dangerous
- 01/28 How do I know I’m called?
- 01/27 the “democratization” and “amateurization” of mission
- 01/26 The marks of a good candidate
- 01/25 Preparing for Black Swans
- 01/21 Don’t put missionaries on pedestals
- 01/20 The power to seep
- 01/19 Few are interested
- 01/18 How likely is the North Korean government to fall
- 01/13 Can I be a missionary?
- 01/12 Don’t rush closure
- 01/11 We need more workers
- 01/05 The role of disruption in the start of movements
- 01/04 How likely is a disastrous earthquake in 2016?
2015
- 12/16 When things go wrong, and things happen, and people suffer–why?
- 12/15 Part of the challenge for our attitudes toward…
- 12/11 I agree with Eddie on who can be a missionary
- 12/10 Why the unreached are unreached
- 12/08 More simple tactics for mapping cities
- 12/03 Lean experiments leave prayer out of the equation?
- 12/02 Worshipping as though we were in jail
- 12/01 What speed of growth for a movement is too slow?
- 11/30 How do I create lean experiments?
- 11/24 Missional accounting
- 11/23 How do I find People of Peace?
- 11/18 Where persecution is worst.
- 11/17 No Syrian refugees allowed in.
- 11/16 You can’t plant churches any more.
- 11/12 Belief is not Knowledge is not Obedience
- 11/11 Boldness vs Danger–when risk is a bad thing
- 11/09 Clusters vs Peoples
- 11/02 Should Churches send only to the unreached
- 10/29 “You go to Italy.”
- 10/28 Fundraising
- 10/27 To change the world
- 10/23 Predicting the (religious) future
- 10/21 What is “more open”?
- 10/18 Is the USA in a better position to finance missionaries than ever before?
- 10/16 Not wanting the end.
- 10/15 Jetlag; or, the prices we pay.
- 10/14 Short term trips and the nations in our backyard
- 10/13 Coffins vs Exit Strategies
- 10/12 It is too small a thing
- 10/11 Freedom
- 10/10 God, glory, fame
- 10/09 Festivals
- 10/08 Sometimes it doesn’t pay to share
- 10/07 Decrease
- 10/06 Churn vs Disbursement
- 10/05 Love vs In Love
- 10/03 Funding missions
- 10/02 That will never happen
- 10/01 The hardest parts about beginning
- 09/30 Urbanization and the least-reached
- 09/29 Teaching everything commanded vs teaching to obey
- 09/28 Estimating movement size
- 09/26 Two lists of Five types of people necessary for movements
- 09/25 If the world will not end this year, then
- 09/24 Money and people
- 09/22 Do you have to reach them all?
- 09/21 Mapping the City
- 09/20 Matchmakers and church growth
- 09/18 Relationships and blessings
- 09/17 Just because the end is coming
- 09/14 Limiters on the spread of the Gospel
- 09/10 When the church is a building
- 09/09 Now and not yet
- 09/08 Its not that we have failed to finish the task
- 09/04 Time to double
- 09/01 Christianity is
- 08/30 After the task is finished, Jesus will return
- 08/29 Without mobilization, we fail
- 08/27 We don’t need a global plan
- 08/26 The task requires discipleship, which requires time
- 08/25 More about agencies, churches, and when a church is a church
- 08/24 Finishing the task will not bring Jesus back
- 08/20 Should Beyond exist?
- 08/19 Mobilizing is getting into someone’s head
- 08/18 Too many mission agencies?
- 08/17 Don’t fling seed without a thought for harvesting
- 08/16 Does discipling the nations mean each individual nation or all the nations, generally?
- 08/15 Church as…
- 08/14 Answering 5 questions we’d rather not answer
- 08/13 How does climate (weather) and placement of a cross-cultural worker relate?
- 08/12 Why we should reduce qualification requirements to build a quality movement
- 08/11 How to choose a place and people to engage
- 08/10 Finishing the Task means everyone will be able to hear
- 08/07 Accuracy of unreached peoples numbers
- 08/06 How do you count the number of UPGs?
- 08/04 How do you get current information on progress in a particular UPG?
- 08/03 Finishing the Task does not mean everyone will believe
- 08/02 How to change paradigms of church and discipleship
- 08/01 The question we don’t ask about discipleship
- 07/30 Respect the calling
- 07/29 Why are missionary numbers going down?
- 07/28 Closure Conundrums
- 07/27 Closure is not a Biblical term
- 07/26 Good, Bad, Non, Anti Christians and missions
- 07/25 Making a difference through social media
- 07/24 Dunbar’s Number and networks, movements, mobilization
- 07/23 What is the population of unreached people and the number of people groups in India?
- 07/22 The average attention span of a human?
- 07/21 Three Challenges for Finances and Fundraising
- 07/20 Movements = Growth
- 07/19 What doesn’t make you stronger might just kill you
- 07/18 Should we stop all immigration of Muslims to the United States?
- 07/17 All of the people
- 07/16 Worldview differences between generations of immigrants
- 07/15 Frequently posed complaints over people group theory
- 07/14 Church, defined
- 07/13 Islam has the largest number of under-30 believers in China?
- 07/12 How 10% can shape a broader community
- 07/10 Why should missionaries be sent to Europe?
- 07/09 A team of 1
- 07/08 Knoxian Champions
- 07/07 Foreign vs Indigenous Missions
- 07/06 Marriage and divorce in the USA, graphed, over 144 years
- 07/05 We don’t need better people group lists
- 07/04 America
- 07/03 Practically and technically getting stories from the field
- 07/02 The Time Sink of Social Media
- 07/01 Understanding someone requires conversation, not polls
- 06/29 Fluid dynamics; or, water as a symbol of the spirit and the church
- 06/28 How fast are Iranians worldwide coming to Christ?
- 06/28 Stop trying to persuade everyone to be a missionary
- 06/27 Platform, Proclamation, Planting are not the same thing
- 06/26 Current trends don’t have to continue.
- 06/24 To reach all, find one person
- 06/23 What gets measured
- 06/22 Seasons of Transition
- 06/21 Purity and holiness maintained vs Gospel messiness
- 06/20 The temptation to too easy closure
- 06/19 Avoiding the twin idols of long-term presence, short-term engagement
- 06/17 The bigger they are
- 06/16 Closure, 2
- 06/15 Closure
- 06/14 A church is not a random sampling of the place it is in
- 06/13 Converts vs Disciples
- 06/12 Kinds of futures–should vs will
- 06/11 Why God gives us money
- 06/10 The final 2,000 people groups?
- 06/09 In 4 years
- 06/08 Quantity of workers is a vanity metric
- 06/07 Preparing for non-Christian religions is more critical than preparing for agnostics/atheists
- 06/05 Your part
- 06/04 Reach the first place to reach all the places
- 06/03 Four stories the world tells about death, and one hellishly simple rationalization
- 06/02 Antifragile
- 06/01 Moving out, or moving in? The price to be paid to be a blessing
- 05/31 Believers, non-believers, sex, marriage, cohabiting, and how we engage with the world
- 05/30 Philippians 4:13 doesn’t mean I can do anything I want
- 05/29 If I tweet with the tongues of men or of angels
- 05/28 Of emergent systems and transformation
- 05/27 Focusing in on a specific problem
- 05/26 People of Peace are not just the spiritually open
- 05/25 Max Group Size, Max Movement Size, Leaving Soon
- 05/24 Not every disciple will make disciples
- 05/23 When we disagree about church (or anything)
- 05/22 Misunderstood, unappreciated
- 05/20 Green grass and tornado chasers
- 05/19 Exit ramps and extinction events
- 05/18 Graduations
- 05/16 Simple vs. Complex Culture Crossing; or, we are not all missionaries
- 05/15 Limitless can be limiting
- 05/14 Had it not been for
- 05/13 27 Doubles
- 05/12 those pesky Pew Research numbers on declining Christianity in America
- 05/11 Are there enough workers in the harvest?
- 05/10 Acting like a missionary does not make you one, but not all missionaries are good ones.
- 05/09 Is the very best missionary not a missionary at all?
- 05/08 What kind of person are you recruiting?
- 05/07 Why knowing too much can cost those who know nothing at all everything
- 05/06 Pride goeth before a fall
- 05/05 How should Christians interact with Muslims?
- 05/04 The fine print on Pew Research numbers–no converts projected in China, India
- 05/03 Evangelists, Developers, Entrepreneurs, Leaders–business terms, or church terms?
- 04/30 Christianity is not declining
- 04/29 Picking a church by where you can best serve
- 04/28 Counts of missionaries by city or country
- 04/26 What do you mean by “plant churches”?
- 04/25 Success
- 04/24 The biggest problem with our failures
- 04/23 The importance of a vision and mission
- 04/22 An ekklesia for every person
- 04/21 When we have to tear apart the boxes we are standing on
- 04/16 Rule of 72
- 04/09 17 Doubles
- 04/08 Are Muslims the fastest growing religion, and why?
- 04/06 What I think we must do to count the task finished
- 04/02 Jesus wants the whole pie
- 03/31 Defectors
- 03/29 Households of faith
- 03/28 Does not making disciples equate to disobedience?
- 03/27 Why discipleship without reproduction is not Biblical discipleship
- 03/26 Single males in mission
- 03/24 Why the differences in unevangelized and unreached population numbers
- 03/23 The world as percentages
- 03/16 Are diaspora in (whatever place) reached or unreached?
- 03/11 Why hugely successful annual events can be very, very bad for the long-term goal
- 03/09 You don’t need the little blue dot
- 03/07 More time
- 02/24 Is the 10/40 Window still urgent?
- 02/12 Three key ideas for churches to achieve closure
- 02/11 Data on nominal Christianity vs. people following Jesus?
- 02/10 How many missionaries are sent out from Latin America?
- 02/02 How many short-term missionaries are sent from the USA?
- 01/21 Defining movements
- 01/13 All
- 01/08 Disengagement
- 01/07 70% solutions
- 01/06 Margin
2014
- 11/29 Questions to ask about your area
- 11/27 Thankful
- 11/26 Be an exponent
- 11/17 Can we use “Allah”?
- 11/12 Passing over
- 11/11 Should
- 11/10 Disconnects
- 11/08 Shifts
- 11/07 Powers, wrestled with
- 11/05 3 kinds of growth, and when each is important
- 11/03 Relationships are more difficult than presentations
- 11/01 Vanity Metrics
- 10/21 Early Adopters
- 07/21 The nations are coming to us
2013
- 10/07 What we look for in a missionary candidate
- 03/06 Different kinds of mission structures

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