My good friend Bob Bouwer was having lunch with the campus pastor of COMMUNITY a couple weeks ago when he said,...
Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson is a founding pastor of Community Christian Church; an innovative multi-site missional church with eleven locations locally that have grown in average attendance from 5 to over 5,500 since it’s beginning 20 years ago. CCC empowers over 800 lay leaders to oversee difference-making ministry throughout Chicagoland. Dave is the visionary and Movement Leader for the NewThing Network (www.newthing.org) whose passion is “to be a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches relentlessly dedicated to helping people find their way back to God.” Read More About Dave Ferguson At His Author Page
Dave Ferguson Posts
How To Choose A Justice Cause To Champion
Ever feel overwhelmed by so many needs and so much injustice in the world that you end up paralyzed and do very...
Apprenticeship – A Must For A Movement
The core competency of any movement is apprenticeship. Since I believe that Jesus came to start a movement this is...
Mission, Stephen Colbert & the Power of “Yes!”
Time Magazine compiled a list of the 10 best commencement addresses ever. This list included speeches by Winston...
The Jesus Mission
Over the last 18 months at COMMUNITY we have made strategic moves in order to mobilize all (yes, we mean ALL) our...
What Stats Should Matter To Churches?
In the movie Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays the part of the Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane. While most of the...
Are We Just Consuming “Missional”?
If a rediscovery of mission will bring new life to the church in the west; then consumerism may be it's death. The...
Missional Practices – Acting Your Way Into A New Way of Behaving
I was talking with Alan Hirsch as we worked together on chapter six of our recent book, On The Verge. That chapter...
Blink Test for Movementum: Question #4
This is the last of four questions that make up a “Blink Test” that determines whether your church has movement...
Blink Test for Movementum: Question #3
Like my last two posts, this one is built on the premise of Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink that introduced the...
BLINK TEST FOR MOVEMENTUM: QUESTION #2
In my last post I reminded you how Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, Blink introduced us to a psychologist who almost...
Church Planter’s “Blink Test” For Movementum
Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink introduced us to a psychologist who learned to predict whether a marriage would...