The pattern as of late is to name the factor you’re concerned with a motion. “Its greater than a message (or a bunch, or an occasion or a denomination, or a office). Its a motion!” However saying doesn’t make it so. Calling a factor a motion doesn’t make it a motion. So … what makes a motion? Taylor Williams and I sat down with JD Walt for an Artwork of Holiness dialog and mentioned the marks of an genuine motion. Right here’s the checklist I cultivated as JD talked:
- Actions begin earlier than they begin.
- Actions begin underground.
- The one secret to creating a motion is: Change into the seed.
- Actions transfer.
- In a church world, actions are extra lay-led than clergy-led.
- Actions begin earlier than they’re prepared.
- Actions be taught the distinction between resistance and opposition (so push towards opposition, however obtain resistance).
- Actions see imaginative and prescient (or as JD places it, if you wish to take the hill, it’s a must to see the hill).
- Actions meet. They don’t occur in a vacuum however within the firm of others.
- Actions search to fulfill with God.
- Actions have a tradition about them.
- Actions rise on centered-set considering, not bounded-set considering (however they don’t try to be all issues to all individuals).
- Actions don’t ask you to decrease the bar; they simply need you to maneuver the limitations out of the way in which.
- Actions persist. They’re affected person with the method.
- Actions keep on Day One (consider Day One because the day of Pentecost).
- Actions could also be hidden.
- Actions don’t concentrate on statistics. They concentrate on the rating.
- Actions flower in connection. Connection bears creates fruit.
- Actions make buddies.
What would you add to this checklist? And if that is our definition, would you say the World Methodist Church is an establishment or a motion?
