http://appletreedna.com Church planting, pioneering Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:47:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you have been around the business world for any time then this is one word that you should have become very familiar with - Innovation!Unfortunately we seem to have relegated such a powerful word to the Research  & Development labs of big tech companies. This is a crucial error ... http://appletreedna.com/2010/09/03/innovate-or-die/ Developing the Leader within You...developing-the-leader-within-you-notes.pdf http://appletreedna.com/2010/08/21/leadership-continued/ People centered leadership is a big leap from program or performance centered leadership. One focuses on achievement and produce, the other on fruit and re-produce. We live in a very relationally aware age where people are more than just tools to get a job done...Leadership vs. ManagementLeadership requires that we ... http://appletreedna.com/2010/08/15/people-centered-leadership/ A new revelation of Grace is sweeping through the body of Christ in the world today. It is a beautiful thing to behold. For some it is bringing huge freedom and a sense of rediscovering Jesus, for others (mainly in church leadership) it is brining fear and confusion. This however ... http://appletreedna.com/2010/08/09/punishment-vs-dicipline/ Well its been a while since I have put anything down on my blog, so here goes.I was speaking to someone a few weeks ago, and it made me start to really question a few things. This Pastor was very excited about his pending church plant. He was excited about ... http://appletreedna.com/2010/08/07/who-before-what/ WHY PLANT CHURCHES?This is the second part of a 2 part article drawn from research done by various church planters including Tim Keller & Mark Driscoll looking again at this crucial question of church planting.In the last article we looked at the first question that we often get asked in ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/06/13/why-plant-churches-part2/ WHY PLANT CHURCHES?At the Elim general conference this year there was a real sense of momentum towards mission and church planting, with many churches from all sizes looking again at how they can get involved in planting new expressions of church in this nation. In light of this I have ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/06/13/why-plant-churches/ GRAND DESIGNSI was watching a program the other day called Grand Designs. Its a programe dedicated to people who are building their dream homes. Just recently they did a special series of programs over a week, during which they endeavored to build a house from scratch in 5 days. At ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/05/09/33/ The book of Genesis sets out God’s idea of success: filling the earth, subduing the enemy, making disciples through nurturing families? Is this what we are doing? In order to think in the right way, we need to redefine what success is. It’s said that many businessmen ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/04/15/from-produce-to-reproduce/ Discipleship is one of those words that you seem to see come up over and over again in most Christian articles. We have started whole movements based around it, and filled countless libraries with books on the subject. But are we any closer to actually doing it, by that I ... http://appletreedna.com/2008/02/28/17/