Dave Coles

REIMAGINING MISSIONS: THE CHURCH AS A MOVEMENT

Posted by Dave Coles | Oct 13, 2025 | Articles, Featured, News, Reimagining Missions

In early 2025, a team of nine scholars and practitioners drafted the statement, “Reactivating the Church as a Movement”. Feedback from within the Motus Dei Network sharpened the language, clarified terms, and strengthened its biblical and cross-cultural grounding. With additional input from a symposium in May, the statement was is finished in September and now published. This essay is an introduction to the statement with links to find it.

REIMAGINING MISSIONS: OVERCOMING SELF FOCUS

Posted by Dave Coles | Jan 24, 2025 | Articles, Featured, New, News, Reimagining Missions

Church Planting Movements (CPMs) continue to be critiqued even as they continue to grow and flourish. More often than not, the critique is the result of contextual bias. Here, Dave Coles presents a corrective response to a Sept. 2024 Lausanne Global Analysis article by Dr David Williams.

MOVEMENTS RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM REFLECTIONS

Posted by Dave Coles | Dec 16, 2020 | News

A report on 2020 discipleship movements research symposium under the banner of “Motus Dei” (Movement of God) that called for multiple researchers, institutions, and agencies to collaborate to strengthen a missiology of movements to aid in their development.

MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: MOVEMENT IMPLICATIONS

Posted by Dave Coles | Sep 29, 2020 | COVID-19 Implications, Featured, Future of Missions, Recent

In this post, Dave Coles (24:14 Network) shares some grassroots accounts of how the gospel is being shared in a ‘whole of life’ way by members of Disciple Making Movements. In the midst of the most trying circumstances, God is being glorified through the generous obedience of His people.

Author: Dave Coles

REIMAGINING MISSIONS: THE CHURCH AS A MOVEMENT

REIMAGINING MISSIONS: OVERCOMING SELF FOCUS

MOVEMENTS RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM REFLECTIONS

MISSIONS IN A COVID CRISIS: MOVEMENT IMPLICATIONS