Lost in Faith

For an explanation of Dunning-Krueger Effect click here. Reading case studies is a good way to learn the dynamics of movements. East Africa Case study online here Shoal Creek started where most start “enamored” with Discovery Groups. But that is only one component of a movement.   Rarely do Discovery Groups evolve into a movement. [...]

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I love it when people get emotional because when things are disturbed deeply the opportunity for change exist.  So here’s hoping this disturbs you! Too much of our American lifestyle is spent keeping things “balanced” and addicted to Kingdom of self-comfort and mediocracy rather than being radically surrendered to Jesus and his kingdom. The test [...]

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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1] (wikipedia) While engaging disciple making movement thinking over the past 4 years I’ve noticed this effect. Evidences of what I’ve seen an unwillingness to ask [...]

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I’ve asked that question of Jim Yost (Indonesia), David Watson ( Bhojpouri, India), Roy Wingerd (Orissa, India), Dave Hunt (Horn of Africa) and any other movement catalyst that I can get to. Their answers vary but also have one common denominator, movement thrive on failure. To get Biblical discipleship principles to work in your culture you must learn thru failure.

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J3 is a reference to Shoal Creek‘s compass of the spiritual journey.  For complete presentations you can visit Shoal Creek’s Vimeo site This is a presentation of J3 moving from receiver to giver in your spiritual journey. http://shoalcreek.org/files/DiscipleMaking%20DNA.mp3        

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