From Churches to Movements

(A summary of ideas in the reading "From Churches to Movements" in Cry of the Urban Poor)

1. The Aim (Matt 28:18-20)
   1. Not Missions
   2. Not churches
   3. But Movements of Disciples
2. Models of Urban Poor Movements
   1. Monastic Orders
   2. Franciscans
   3. Wesleyans
   4. Salvation Army
   5. Base Communities in Brazil
   6. Assembly of God in Latin America
3. Factors in Movements (Gerlach and Hine)
   1. Cell - like Structure
   2. Face to Face Recruitment
   3. Act or Experience that separates from the established order
   4. Ideology
      1. codifies values
      2. codifies goals
      3. produces conceptual framework for change
      4. defines opposition
      5. basis for unification of segmented network of groups
   5. Real or perceived Opposition from that Segment from which it has arisen
4. Other Factors (Grigg)
   1. Absolutist
   2. Strong Espirit de Corps
   3. SImple Ideas
   4. Charismatic Leadership
      1. Man(or Woman) of Words, Fanatic, Institutionalizer (Hoffer)
      2. Man(Woman) , Mission, Movement, Machine, Monument
   5. Leadership functions (Eph 4:11, 12)
      1. Initiated by apostles, prophets,
      2. Expanded by evangelists,
      3. Consolidated by pastors and teachers
      4. Male or female
   6. Relationship of Voluntary Leadership and Professionally trained leadership
      1. Movements based on voluntary leadership
      2. Key deployment of supported workers to develop these leaders
      3. Lay movements will not be sustained unless top leadership is developed theologically and in understand the cultural and social dynamics
   7. extent of the Movement
      1. rate of multiplication of cells
      2. number of conversions
      3. extent of leadership training and deployment
      4. extent to which movement speaks to soul of the people
5. Movements Among the Educated Elite Impacting the Poor
6. Developing a Catechism
   1. From Four Seasons Chart
   2. Non-Literary Devotional Pattersn
   3. Publications
   4. The place of the Song-Book
7. Summary of Patterns and Rituals
   1. Song Book
   2. Devotional / Bible Reading program
   3. Regular meetings - small and large group
   4. Pattern of Oral Teaching
   5. Fixed Liturgy
8. The Principle of the Seed
   1. Extent of the Cross
   2. Self-giving/forgiving love
   3. Extent of Commitment to the Word
   4. Anointing and Transmisison of patterns of operating in the power of the Spirit
   5. Patterns and structure
9. The Worth of the Individual