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Are You Running on Empty (2)?
Yesterday we looked at the issue of stress and burnout. We looked at some of the ways in which over tiredness can affect us and those around us. Today, I would like to offer some practical tips to help us. Rest is such a hard thing to achieve in our frenetic culture. Finding things to do for the sheer pleasure of doing them is difficult. I read a report recently that…
Are you running on empty (1)?
We all know that feeling when Monday morning feels like Friday evening and the energy levels are at an all time low. The question of how we recharge our batteries spiritually, physically and mentally is important for church planters, pastors and inner city church workers. I have just spent some time with a dear friend of mine and as a fellow labourer in the gospel it was…
The power of an invitation
by Mike Stark This past week we’ve had another team over from Champion Forest Baptist Church, Houston, Texas. This is the second team we’ve had over from the US this year. Its always a great encouragement to us as a church, as the Americans inject a bit of money, man-power, and enthusiasm to the work in Niddrie. On Saturday night we had an X-Factor style…
What is the mission of the church?
What is the mission of the church? Making sense of social justice, shalom and the great commission. Kevin DeYoung & Greg Gilbert. I picked this off the bookshelf at Capitol Hill Baptist church because I was intrigued by the title given the ‘culture wars’ that have broken out in the USA over these issues. If you don’t know what I am talking about at this point then I…
What is Redeemer City to City?
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Planting. Watering. Growing. ‘Planting Confessionally Reformed Churches in the 21st Century’.
Edited by Daniel Hyde & Shane Lems (Reformation heritage Books, 2011) This book has contributions from a number of authors including such luminaries as: Michael Horton, Brian Vos & Kim Riddlebarger to name a few. The…
5 ways established churches can learn from church plants
This is a great little article which offers some pointers on how established churches can keep themselves fresh in terms of their missions and evangelism to lost people. Read it here. NCC is heading ever closer to full independence from Charlotte Chapel and I think we need a (1) overhaul of all of…
Understanding what it means to be a missional church
‘Missional’ has become one of the most overused words in the evangelical world right now. Trying to define it simply has become a bit of a nightmare. It can mean certain things to certain people. Some are sniffily suspicious of it, regarding it as a hip, emergent type approach to life…
How successful is your church?
I have been thinking a lot about this topic during my time here in the USA. It has been interesting to note the variety of opinions put forward by local speakers and visiting church planters. Some think that ‘magic number’ which means you have made it is no less than 200. Some think more, not very many think less. Some think that a plant must not start with…
Effective Discipleship For a Non Reading Generation
Great little post here on community-shaped discipleship in youth work by Josh Cousineau. He sets up 2 models of discipleship we might employ in our youth work; 1) giving them a chapter of a good book to read and discussing it together the next week, or 2) living life together in community, allowing…