Purposeful entry; looking for person of peace / houses of peace

NOTE: All generations counted are NEW believers and new groups/churches, not EXISTING believers and churches.Existing believers/churches are labeled Gen 0 indicating that they are the baseline generation from which we arelaunching.

0 - DMM Team in context but no purposeful DMM plan or efforts yet

In MultiplyUs Conferences, we consider the terms, disciple-making movement (DMM) and church-planting movement(CPM), to be synonymous. (We recognize this is not a universally-held view, but we believe it to be more inclusive. Tofacilitate ease of communication, we'll use "DMM" here, but we respect either term and use them both in training.)

the priesthood of all believers (1 Peter 2:5-9),

6. Reproducing groups or simple churches are intentionally formed as a part of the multiplying disciples process. Theintent in DMM approaches is that disciples, groups or simple churches, leaders and movements can multiply endlesslyby the power of the Spirit.

3. Each follower develops behavioral patterns of frequent and regular accountability for obeying God's instructionsand passing them on to others in a loving environment. This requires a participative small-group approach.

The focus is to make every follower of Christ a reproducing disciple rather than merely a convert.

The Bible does say that "the disciples multiplied," however -- Acts 12:24

4. Each disciple is equipped in comprehensive ways (such as interpreting and applying Scripture, a well-rounded prayerlife, functioning as a part of the larger Body of Christ, and responding well to persecution/suffering) in order that theymight function not merely as consumers, but as active agents of Kingdom advance.

1. There is awareness that only God can start movements, but disciples can follow biblical principles to pray, plant, andwater the seeds that can lead to (a) book of Acts type multiplying movement(s).

Disciples make disciples. That’s one generation. When a disciple makes a disciple who makes a disciple, that’s two generations. By the time you reach the third or fourth generation, the disciples may not know the name of the original disciple in the chain. Churches generate new churches. That’s one generation. When disciples who are part of one church make disciples who establish another church, and disciples from the second church make disciples who become yet another church, that’s two generations. This is how movement happens. This is how disciples and churches multiply into neighboring tribes and countries as the Spirit moves.

They invite “persons of peace” into a simple, inductive Bible study along with their family and friends.

Local leaders emerge and are trained and coached to become part of the local movement network.

Ultimately, those who become believers are baptized.

They gather as simple churches.

Local, indigenous believers who are living out a disciple-making lifestyle

They gather into teams with other believers and engage people who have not been reached with the gospel through prayer and compassionate service.

Lifeway Global is a leader in growing and connecting networks of Disciple Making Movements. These networks are taking the gospel to the ends of the earth.

Our Disciple Making Intensive (DMi) is a training pathway designed to equip emerging leaders with a vision to catalyse disciple-making movements (DMM). Throughout this journey, participants will learn to embody the core values, principles, and practical tools of DMM, gaining the “DNA” needed to lead effective disciple-making teams. This training transforms participants’ “head, heart, and hands” as they prepare to multiply new mission works in the specific fields—people or places—where God has called them.

Then on Friday, he brought the proclaimer to a large group. He is now the leader of that DMM team. Their number has kept growing.

Outreach Canada is made up of several ministry teams – all with their own unique contexts and specific focuses, spread across our country. What’s the common thread? How do we all fit together?  At Outreach Canada, we refer to ourselves as a “Family of Ministries”.  One of our newest additions to our family is our Disciple-Making Movements team (aka Becoming Disciples Who Multiply).

Our Disciple-Making Movements (DMM) team in also active globally. One example of this is a missionary involved in DMM training in two Asian countries serving 178 churches and 1500+ leaders.

This is a very important step. As I’ve talked to people connected to movements overseas or read some of their writings, I continue to hear something very surprising. They often say that their greatest resistance in making more disciples comes from “traditional Christians.” By traditional Christian, I think they just mean Christians who go to traditional churches and think everyone should do things the way they do things. The truth is that traditional Christians often resist what they don’t understand or don’t like.

In Revelation 2-3, Jesus says one thing to all seven churches: “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches” (Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22, NLT). How might this apply to us? We must listen to the Spirit and understand and obey what he is saying to the church. The Spirit still speaks! Do you know what the Spirit is saying to your church?

The prevailing church model in the U.S. is just one of many forms the church may take.

Current research shows that the church in the United States is in overall decline.

The New Testament provides substantial instruction to guide church leaders but stops short of mandating some of the rituals the American church holds, such as meeting on Saturday or Sunday mornings and delivering a 40-minute message to a group of people sitting in rows. Organizations of any kind must embrace adaptability in order to navigate the constant change that is inherently a part of the global society in which they function. If a church’s current form is not leading to disciple making and flourishing, leaders can be encouraged that the Holy Spirit empowers churches in many different shape and forms. Two practices church leaders can undertake to cultivate an openness to adaptability are engaging in collective discernment and becoming a student of other church forms.

consist of small groups that multiply into house church networks or form collective churches

Farah (2020) makes the distinction that DMMs are not anti-institutional but anti-institutionalization. Institutions add structural value to movements but, when applied improperly, can stifle multiplication (Farah, 2020). Disciple making movements are polycentric, characterized by multiple centers of sending and receiving (Farah, 2020; Handley, 2022). The central identity points are Jesus and the Bible, not a specific denomination or source church (Farah, 2020).

DMMs are more often reverse engineered, as described by looking back after occurring

Our extensive network

Home fellowships are the heart of our movement. In places where traditional church buildings cannot exist—whether for cultural, security, or political reasons—small groups of believers gather quietly in homes. Families and friends open the Scriptures, pray, and share meals together. It is in this context of family and friend groups that the Kingdom of God is transforming lives. These simple fellowships are multiplying, becoming self-propagating, self-sustaining, and self-governing discipleship movements rooted in the New Testament pattern.

According to some, finding a person of peace is essential to a fruitful entry strategy for a missionary. However, this interpretation of Luke 10 is exegetically flawed, and following this philosophy to identify a person of peace is potentially dangerous.

Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee and saw Levi sitting in a tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus commanded. “Levi got up and followed him” (Mark 2:14, NIV). The next scene is at Levi’s house. Levi has invited all his business associates and sinners to a large meal to introduce them to Jesus. Levi was a person of peace.

I should note—a person of peace may not have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior but still be open to the Gospel message. It’s this openness to those sharing the Gospel that shows God is already working within their lives.

While we're still early in the process, we now have a DMM team of 16, 30+ others trained, with many more to be trained soon.

It is our prayer that this training will help you in your personal efforts and in your church’s efforts to make disciples for the Kingdom of God. We hope that you will view your experience with eLife and beyond as helping you expand the work of Christ’s Church, and not as serving as a representative of eLife, trying to carry out eLife’s programs or to promote eLife in any way. What we have shared and will share with you does not belong to eLife, but is intended to be given away for the good of the Body of Christ. Please do so with our blessing towards the goal of fulfilling the Great Commission.

Separately, evangelical researchers Thom and Sam Rainer concluded, “Most churches are dwindling. Most denominations are not growing. The population in the United States is exploding… the church is losing ground. We are in a steep state of decline.”

I thought the concepts in the book were so important that we did a 4-part message series on it at our church called Meltdown: The Decline of the American Church.Part 1 – Smaller Than We ThinkPart 2 – Revenue ReductionPart 3 – People Are LeavingPart 4 (Clayton Walker) – We Aren’t Reaching New People

In The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church, Christine Wicker writes, “Evangelical Christianity in America is dying. The great evangelical movements of today are not a vanguard. They are a remnant, unraveling at every edge. Look at it any way you like: Conversions. Baptisms. Membership. Retention. Participation. Giving. Attendance. Religious literacy. Effect on culture. All are down and dropping. It’s no secret…”

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Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make deployment friendly and usable. That’s a job for open source, and Rails 8 is ready to solve it.

It’s a great example of the need to occasionally pull a fresh sheet of paper and consider a familiar problem from first principles again.

Are native iOS and Android apps available? Campfire is designed to work beautifully on the mobile web — either as a tab in your mobile browser, or as a PWA (Progressive Web App) which you can launch right from your mobile device’s home screen like all your other apps. And like native apps, you’ll get badges on your icon and push notifications if you’d like.

Projects big and small have been erecting new participation barriers on contributions aided by AI to preserve the privileges of the old programmer guilds.

See, all programmers are equal, but some programmers are more equal than others. If you're a programmer being assisted by AI, you're not a real programmer. Therefore you aren't entitled to the same supposedly universal open source rights. Or so the self-serving thinking goes in the growing number of anti-agent camps springing up as part of a modern Luddite movement.

The Zig community is decentralized. Anyone is free to start and maintain their own space for the community to gather and submit a pull request to edit this page to add a link.

But you can only do this on Linux. With Windows and macOS, the core elements of the operating system are owned by the companies that make them. While it's often possible to hack certain aspects, it's far from truly having the malleable computer that Linux allows.

Because that's the enterprise sales game. The haggling, the hoodwinking, the game-playing. The let's-see-what-we-can-get-away-with bullshit that brings meaning to the life of suits duking it out in a negotiation contest. That's what WINNING the deal is about. Snookering the other side.I can't stand it. In fact, I loathe it.

It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're betting on something backed by venture capital, well, you know that the odds of permanence are as long as can be. It needn't be this way.

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While running a server can be a complicated endeavor, we've tried to make it fairly easy to set up and hands-off to maintain.

Accessibility barriers in research are not new, but they are urgent. The message we have heard from our community is that arXiv can have the most impact in the shortest time by offering HTML papers alongside the existing PDF.

Browser tools are different from adding elements to AI chat. Element selection lets you manually pick page elements as context for a chat prompt. Browser tools let agents autonomously interact with web pages to complete tasks.

Artificial Superintelligence

enables substantial intelligence amplification.

In other words, COSMIC behaves more like a collection of coordinated tools than a single monolithic environment. This makes the system easier to evolve over time. Components can be updated or replaced without rewriting the entire desktop. It’s a surprisingly modern design philosophy for a Linux desktop environment, and it’s one of the reasons many developers are watching COSMIC closely.

There was a time that whenever you looked at search results on Google, you could click the "Cached" button to view an archived version of the page. Unfortunately, Google has decided to remove the feature. The company's stated reason is that the feature was created to allow users a way to see the content at a time when sites would go offline frequently, and that the basic functionality of the internet has improved to the extent that it's no longer necessary. Whatever the reason, it means yet another useful feature has found itself in Google's graveyard.While Google may profess that feature isn't relevant any longer, that's not the case. Posts are deleted all the time, link rot is very real, and entire sites are regularly purged from existence Any time you want to access a post that has been removed due to corporate or political censorship, you now have one less tool to see what was published. Google's cache was also among the most reliable ways to access pages that would take a long time to load or keep going down frequently, something that still happens with smaller blogs or with sites run by the government in plenty of regions in the world.Any time a web page failed to work as expected, you could easily access Google's cache directly from the search results, but that button has now been removed—if not the functionality itself. Because at the time of this writing, there remain a few easy workarounds that allow you access Google's cached webpages.

I had the same confusing experience here too! I was looking for a way to quote and reply to a comment. The closest action I found was the "Reply to comment" button, so I clicked that, hoping and expecting that this would copy the comment I was replying to into the text box below. (Prefixing it with quote/cite marks (>) for me, of course, so I didn't have to painstakingly prefix each line with a > manually.) I clicked "Reply to comment" several times, expecting it to append something (the quoted text) to the text box, but when the text box remained empty, it was really confusing. I was like, "Why didn't that button work? Why didn't it do anything? I did just press it, right? Or did I miss and press a different button?" Finally it dawned on me that all this "Reply to comment" was doing was focusing the text box at the bottom of this discussion thread. That might be obvious if there were no text box there before and it made one appear there when I clicked this button. But that only helps if I can actually see it appear where it wasn't before. But when the comment you are replying to spans multiple pages (similar problem mentioned here, and you click this button that is above that comment, then you don't have the benefit of even seeing whether there is/was a "reply" box below this comment(s). So it felt like nothing happened when I clicked the button. I think adding a new "Quote and reply" icon next to the current "Reply to comment" action would make it less likely to mistakenly hope that the "Reply to comment" button was the "Quote and reply" button.

I agree with your request, but your ticket's title describes the solution you envisioned rather than the issue. I suggest the following title to represent the actual issue:

But slowly and surely, Google has chipped away at that openness because the Android version most widely used is the one primarily developed by Google.

you want to drive away your entire customer base? You realize that the only reason we don’t buy iphones is because they don’t give us this freedom that Android does. I know you think no one can touch your multi billion dollar empire but know that you have that data because of us. The customers. NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS, NO ONE WANTS THIS. First you “detected root” then you “implemented safety net” then you implemented “play integrity and certification” just pushing and pushing and pushing developers to bow down to you. And now this? No.

Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.

However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do. Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now:

Warning: Do not install the Ubuntu-supplied Watchman package. It is old and missing security, bug, and performance fixes.

It is highly recommended you install it for better performance and increased compatibility in certain edge cases (translation: you may be able to get by without installing this, but your mileage may vary; installing this now may save you from a headache later).

OED itself states that non-inclusion in their unparalleled work must not be taken as proof of non-wordness

Oxford comma: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-11648

Since the value in adding it only to the options bag is quite small (for it would require an app developer to develop a UI for the user to control their oxford comma preference and then pass it to the constructor of ListFormat all around their app), I believe that this feature should be primarily handled by the language tag in CLDR first, and we can then consider adding support for it into ECMA402.

There are a lot of variations that are similar to this that we conventionally say are regionally linked when they are actually only loosely tied. The most common one, of course, is zh-CN/zh-TW vs. zh-Hans/zh-Hant. This one has the distinction of crossing over the US vs. GB divide rather than falling approximately neatly into one or the other.

I'm a little--maybe more than a little--concerned with trying to encapsulate every possible stylistic variation in every API into locale identifiers. A certain amount of this, sure. But this model won't scale and it will be difficult for developers and customers to use.

Closing as won't fix since there is not a strong enough use case to add support for this behavior since we have not seen any recent requests for this behavior.

Learn how to watch and rate movies people (rated for balance only)The people who rated this movie 1-star should get their heads out of their posteriors. Too many movie-goers these days seem to only see movies as either being the best thing ever or the worst thing ever. The only way a movie should get 10 stars is if it would be difficult to improve upon and the only way a movie should get 1 star is if it was absolutely ineptly made on every level, and I assure you this movie doesn't come close to that. Even solely rating on personal taste and ignoring the technical filmmaking and how successfully the movie achieves the filmmakers' apparent intent, this movie could hardly be in the worst 10% of movies for anyone's taste.This movie fails in many respects, but it has some redeeming moments and taken as a movie for small kids, it's not bad. The humor and acting both fall flat or miss the mark about as often as they're on target, but that is a sign of mediocrity, not atrocity.Unfortunately at this point most of the IMDb users seem to think that if they enjoyed a movie they should give it a 10 and if it wasn't all they hoped for they should give it a 1. For instance the Lord of the Rings movies were entertaining, but have no business being rated higher than Citizen Kane or any of the countless classics relegated to lower ranks here. Similarly. Zoom has no business being rated lower than a piece of garbage like I Accuse My Parents which wasn't even watchable when it was skewered on Mystery Science Theater 3000.Remember folks most movies are mediocre. That means a low rating, not the bottom rating. Furthermore, just because a movie is exciting or satisfying doesn't make it a 10. For example, one can love the original Star Wars movies and still realize they have occasional flaws in acting, direction, pacing, or script.Is Zoom a great movie? Absolutely not. Will some children, some parents, and even some adults without children enjoy it? Yes. Will it go down in history for being remarkable in any way? Probably not.

In automation theory, a "centaur" is a person who is assisted by a machine. A "reverse centaur" is someone who has been conscripted into assisting a machine. If you're a software engineer who uses AI to write routine code that you have the time and experience to validate, deploying your Fingerspitzengefühl and process knowledge to ensure that it's fit for purpose, it's easy to see why you might find using AI (when you choose to, in ways you choose to, at a pace you choose to go at) to be useful. But if you're a software engineer who's been ordered to produce code at 10x, or 100x, or 10,000x your previous rate, and the only way to do that is via AI, and there is no human way that you could possibly review that code and ensure that it will not break on first contact with the world, you'll hate it (you'll hate it even more if you've been turned into the AI's accountability sink, personally on the hook for the AI's mistakes)

For a long time, firms have nurtured a false belief that code costs less to run over time: after an initial shakedown period in which the bugs in the code are found and addressed, code ceases to need meaningful maintenance.

I am a big fan of the way German (and other languages) construct words. I like having "timezone" as one word, as to me, it adds extra meaning.

You can convert any synchronous expect to an asynchronous polling one using expect.poll.

For these you can use method="GET" (or, equivalently, no method at all), and SvelteKit will treat them like <a> elements, using the client-side router instead of a full page navigation:

Why do you say it's not a word? Just because it's not in a dictionary?

If you need to include a + in a query parameter, you may need to use %2B instead, due to a W3 recommendation that causes a + to be interpreted as a space.

It's interesting that a review must be at least 10 lines in order to be accepted as a legitimate review. So much for focusing on brevity and quality of content rather than quantity of text. Seems quite silly actually.

Yes, it’s a little confusing that the enhance action and <form action> are both called ‘action’. These docs are action-packed. Sorry.