DJ Chuang (DJChuang.com) recently blogged about how to start a movement:

Some people get really excited about starting a movement or being a part of a movement. What is a movement anyways?

Ken Cochrum describes the best definition he’s found, “A movement is a group of people who consciously, and at their own cost, connect to change the status quo.”

Read the whole post here: How to Be a Movement Leader.

Has God given you vision for a movement? What's stopping you?

Chris James (duodigetst.blogspot.com) recently wrote about the problem many Christians have of being educated beyond their obedience:

"The sadly funny thing is we've somehow become convinced that the best way to follow Jesus is to learn something new about God, when in fact, we'd be far better served to act upon one thing we have already "learned." You might say that the almost ignorant activists make better disciples than the learned philosophizers. And this is an indictment of me, as it is likely to be of you - who derive some pleasure from reading a blog about Jesus. :)"

Read the whole post here.

This is reminiscent of James 1:22-25

What can we do to avoid being over educated, but disobedient? What programmatic or structural changes can we make to help the Church avoid this pitfall?

Ephesians 4:11,12,16 talks about Jesus gifting members of the body for different functions:

"It was He [Jesus] who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up ... 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work." - read the rest of the chapter here.

I believe it's possible that many more Christians are gifted to be pastors than are actually paid full-time to be one. Do they still have responsibility to use their gifts? Do they have to go to Seminary? Should they be paid full-time to use their gift in the body?

Biblically, what is a pastor? What do they do? (not traditionally, or your opinion, what does scripture say?)

What do you do with gifted pastors who are not in a "pastoral" leadership role in a church? Do you have to work at a church and be paid staff to legitimately be a pastor? If not, how do you decide who to pay, who not to pay.

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I'm afraid that by not legitamizing and empowering unpaid - yet gifted - pastors, we may not be advancing the Kingdom as much as God would like us to.

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