Church Planting (Page 27)
A New Vision for small groups
This little video has been doing the rounds on the blogosphere and is definitely worth a look, if only to provoke thought and further discussion for whatever your context is. I got it off Paul Rees who is the pastor of Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh. Check out his blog here. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/22754743]
Fishers of Men
I hate fishing. Hate is a strong word so let me restate. I absolutely, categorically, fundamentally hate fishing. Don’t get me wrong, I have great admiration for the courage and strength of those who trawl the seas day in and day out so I can have a nice bit of cod on a Friday. I also enjoy watching ‘Trawlermen’ on the Dave channel from time to time and…
The Trellis & The Vine
This is a good book that has been out for a couple of years now. It is written by a man called Colin Marshall who has been involved in training men and women for ministry for over 30 years. His quite obvious focus is on training men and women in our churches to be effective gospel communicators, disciplers and trainers. His thesis is that if we train more people in…
Wednesday Acoustic Thingy!
We launched a new meeting in the cafe today as a replacement for our midweek ‘recover’ programme which has come to an end after 3 months. We are basically looking to start a midweek church plant with some of the locals who frequent our building Monday-Saturday but are nowhere in sight on Sundays. Normally, our cafe shuts at 2:30pm during the week, but we have…
Clueless Church
This was a very wry post written by Paul Levy here.
Why we plant churches
A talk by Richard Coekin – an uptight Brit!! [vimeo http://vimeo.com/23693117]
Who Should lead a church plant?
A lecture from Mark Driscoll on the issue of church planting. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/23990625]
Should we Kill Our Small Groups?
I just read an interesting article on why small groups don’t work. Whilst from a USA perspective, let me assure you that some of what he says couldn’t be truer, particularly in our context. People in Niddrie don’t want to sit around for 1.5 hours a week and pretend to like other people they don’t really know or associate with outside of the…
Pastor as the Chief Fundraiser!
Darrin Patrick gives a lecture on what it means to raise funds for planting a church. His advice, ‘go and learn from somebody for a coupe of years. Shut up and work.’ Nice. Listen to what he has to say here.
Church Planting Movements
Check out this interesting (and free) online booklet from www.imb.org/CPM. Of particular interest are the 10 universal elements that you would expect to find in any developing church planting movement. I may blog on each of them more in-depth.