Missional Living (Page 18)
Shallow Small Groups!!
I love this and I want one in Niddrie (I may even have one!) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMyTMTmJU6E&feature=player_embedded#at=58]
Incarnational Opportunities!
A large forest in Africa has been destroyed to provide the paper for the thousands of articles written on the benefits of ‘incarnational’ ministry. In church planting contexts such as ours it is an important consideration. Should the minister live on the estate which he is trying to reach? There is a glaringly obvious response from most of us to that question…
Reaching out to ALL of Niddrie
Niddrie is changing. When I first came here four years ago the community was much more clearly defined. Families had been living here for generations and the ‘mission’ (as our church building was called and still is today despite the name change!) has been here for almost 100 years. It was pretty easy to identify the ‘community’. In response to…
Government cuts mean Gospel Opportunities!
Much has been written and reported in the media about the savage spending cuts the government seem to be enforcing across large swathes of our local community resources. I am not interested in pushing a political view but I am interested in observing, thinking about and acting upon what this means for the Christian church (both here and Niddrie and further afield). The…
Breaking The Missional Code
This is the title of a book I have just finished reading. You can find it here on Amazon. It is written by Ed Stetzer & David Pullman and is aimed at the North American market. This requires some hard thinking in order to extract principles that could apply to the UK. Despite the weird sounding title I really enjoyed the book. It is quite even handed in critiquing…
9 Marks of a Healthy Church
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/15013700]We have used this book in our evening teaching sessions at the church. It doesn’t claim to be comprehensive but it is extremely helpful and practical. I did find that I had to do some work ‘fleshing it out’ and contextualising it for my people but it was well worth the effort.