Resurgence is running a post I wrote on Church Planting Movements called: Why Comparisons are a Mistake. I list four reasons NOT to compare our churches to church planting movements and three ways TO compare ourselves to non-Western church planting movements. An excerpt:
As good Westerners, we gravitate to the numbers in CPMs and decry the slow resurgence of the gospel in the West. We mine these movements for compelling strategies instead of learning from the mundane stories of perseverance that constitute the history of CPMs.