Friday – Reflect – Pioneer Progress
We pray and reflect about our topic. Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
Thursday – Act On It – Pioneer Progress
This week we’ve been studying a story that illustrated nicely the growth and rapid progress of the Christian movement 2000 years ago. What started as a local upstart religious group in Judaism grew slowly, but then suddenly exploded. The story we explored this week, of Philip sharing the good news of Jesus with an African […]
Wednesday – Change It – Pioneer Progress
This week we’re studying Pioneer Progress – how the early Christian movement suddenly reached a tipping point and started to grow beyond religious, ethnic and national boundaries. We’re particularly looking at the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch this week. Yesterday we read the beginning of the story, where Philip ran after the chariot […]
Tuesday – Study It – Pioneer Progress
This week we’re talking about Pioneer Progress – how the Christian movement reached a tipping point that allowed it to reach beyond its Jewish roots and go viral and go global. [25] Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the […]
Monday – A New Idea – Pioneer Progress
A few years ago now, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book that transformed the way people think. He wrong Tipping Point, all about how movements can starts slowly, grow slowly, and build to a critical mass, the tipping point, and suddenly see explosive and viral growth. I remember when I knew a handful of people with […]
Group Study Guide – Pioneer Progress
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: What have you seen that started slow, but then grew quickly? What was the tipping point? Reading: [25] Now when they had testified and spoken the word […]