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		<title>Four Tragic Shifts In The Visible Church 180-400 A. D.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Tragic Shifts 1. The church portrayed in the New Testament was a dynamic organism, a living body with many parts. The church from around 180 A.D. onwards became an increasingly hardened institution with a fixed and complex hierarchy. 2. The early church was marked by; the manifestation of a polyform ministry by which edification [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=185&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ways into small missional communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ian adams is blogging a series on small missional communities. so far&#8230; starting out in company what&#8217;s the big idea beginning to live a simple pattern finding the spirit of the community being shaped by our setting small is good eating drinking together finding a name<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=183&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Primer on Today’s Missional Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Marks of Mission and Five Marks of a Mission-Shaped Church – Notes from the famous Anglican Church statement about The Mission-Shaped Church Twelve Hallmarks of a Missional Church and Three Overarching Principles – A short summary from The Gospel and Our Culture Network plus a short summary from Michael Frost and Alan Hirsh’s award [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=182&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 Things You Should Notice At a Missional Sunday Gathering</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[8 Things You Should Notice At a Missional Sunday Gathering 1.) There is no single dominating leader/pastor: You won’t be able to tell who the senior pastor is. There will be leaders, but no one leader will dominate this gathering. There probably will not be one dominant preacher. Leadership will be diffused. This pushes leadership [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=180&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret of Church Multiplication Movements</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ingredient most necessary to start a spontaneous movement of God&#8217;s expanding Kingdom is found in the heart of every follower of Christ. It is inside of you. It is inside of me. It has been in us all along, every one of us who follows Christ and is indwelt by His Spirit. The &#8220;mystery&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=175&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church Multiplication Associates: Articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Church Multiplication Associates (CMA) &#38; CMAResources exist to support and encourage church multiplication movements by developing new resources focused on reproducing disciples, leaders, churches and movements from the place where you’re planted and finishing at the ends of the earth The Secret of Church Multiplication Movements by Neil Cole I have given my entire adult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=127&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perceptions of Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Neutral language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neutral language that our audience can understand&#8230; Christianese jargon Normal HumanSpeak: examples of equivalents the Bible says the biblical documents indicate &#8230; a biblical perspective would be that &#8230; a first-century follower of Jesus maintained that &#8230; Jesus’ close friends claimed he taught that &#8230; Paul, an early Christian, wrote in a letter to some friends &#8230; one first-century witness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=111&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Instilling Missional Habits in a Congregation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we lead a church community to engage mission as a way of life? 1.) Kindly Reject doing Outreach Events. Instead direct imagination towards ways of connecting with people where they are. Outreach events take up much time, planning and enormous “congregational capital” (if I may put it that way).  In post Christendom outreach events [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=109&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missio dei &#8211; Wikipedia Definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1934, Karl Hartenstein, a German missiologist, coined the phrase in response to Karl Barth and his emphasis on actio Dei (Latin for “the action of God”). When kept in the context of the Scriptures, missio Dei correctly emphasizes that God is the initiator of His mission to redeem through the Church a special people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=churchresearch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4896106&amp;post=100&amp;subd=churchresearch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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