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July 2025

From Egosystem to Ecosystem: Why the Future of the Church Depends on Repentance and Redesign
“Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed…” — Jesus, John 12:24
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Patrick O'Connell
Decentralized Doesn’t Mean Disordered
How Networks Thrive Without Top-Down Control
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Patrick O'Connell
Friends on Mission: The Relational Key to Collaboration, Networks, and Multiplication
What if the future of the Church wasn’t built on platforms, but on friendships?
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Patrick O'Connell
Church Planting Networks in the Early Church
A Hidden Framework of Mission and Multiplication
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Romans 16: The Forgotten Chapter That Could Change How You See Church Networks
How Romans 16 quietly reveals a Spirit-led web of relationships that fueled the early Church’s explosive growth.
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Patrick O'Connell
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Don’t Go It Alone: Why Every Church Leader Needs to be in a Network
There’s a quiet but powerful movement happening across North America.
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Patrick O'Connell
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The Quiet Power of Great Networks
What if the breakthrough your church needs isn’t in another conference, program, or consultant—but in a relationship?
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Patrick O'Connell
Why Networks Now?
A Call to Kingdom Collaboration in an Age of Complexity
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Patrick O'Connell
10 Questions for You and Your Team to Ignite the Great Collaboration in Your Context
Because ministry is too hard—and too holy—to do alone.
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Patrick O'Connell
Movements Never Multiply Alone
Why every lasting Kingdom movement is born in collaboration
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Patrick O'Connell
What Is a Network?
If you’re new here, you might be wondering: What exactly do we mean by “network”? It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot—but in the context of The…
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Patrick O'Connell
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