'church planting' Tagged Posts (Page 2)
The Role Of The Local Church Within Deprived Communities (1)
Note: This is an updated version of a previous post. In his book, Generous Justice, Tim Keller states: “All I know is, if I don’t care about the poor, if my church doesn’t care about the poor, that’s evil.” Jesse Johnson, writing an article for The Cripplegate Blog, has a somewhat different…
Making Disciples By Church Planting
I found this extremely helpful article in The Briefing written by Richard Coekin. He makes some great points about smaller churches reaching a wider geographical spread and this is certainly some of the thinking behind our 20Schemes project. We are not going to grow mega churches through this initiative (although God in His grace may intervene) but we do want to see small…
Church Planting/Revitalisation In Northern Ireland
Tell us a little about yourself I am a 42 year old, son of a farmer from the NW Ulster/Donegal border. I Moved to the South of England when I was 10 and came back to the University of Ulster when 23. I played lots of sport, and despite frequently attending church, I was out drinking, DJing and…
How Our Leaders Are Losing Their Grip & Why We’re Happy About It
I recently spent a couple of days away with our Ministry Team in order to discuss polices, have some concentrated teaching and enjoy a bit of fun and fellowship. We try to do it every year in order to welcome any new faces into the fold. This year there were 13 people and their families present.…
20 Schemes: ‘Gospel Churches For Scotland’s Poorest’ (1)
This week saw the launch of a new website: www.20schemes.com to go alongside our Facebook page and our twitter feed: @20schemes. So, what is 20schemes and how did it come about? 20schemes is the brainchild of myself and Matthew Spandler-Davison, a Scotsman (despite the mangled accent on our video)…
20 Schemes – Gospel Churches For Scotland’s Poorest
We are launching our Niddrie’s new church planting initiative in the next few weeks. We currently have a Facebook page which you can like here. This weekend we will be launching our new website. Last week, as many of you know, we launched in America at the SEBTs 2012, 9Marks Conference and we…
What Are We Doing While Young Men Die?
Inner cities are little war zones in which bloody wars are fought. Gangs of young men stab and shoot each other ‘on sight’ for straying into the wrong postcode. The rest of us cross these front lines every day without knowing it – but if you’re a young man from, in this case, the Jamaican community in Birmingham you are in mortal danger whether you are armed or…
Where Will Our Future leaders Come From?
At Niddrie we will be launching a new church planting initiative within the next month. We are calling it “20Schemes” and further details will follow. We are launching this project in partnership with a church in Kentucky called Bardstown Christian Fellowship, itself planted by a Scotsman, Matthew Spandler-Davison. We are also benefitting hugely from the…
How Too Much Discipleship Was Hurting Our New Christians
Our current church membership stands at about 55, with another 15 or so waiting in the wings to be baptised. We have a Sunday attendance of anywhere between 70 and 100 (I suspect that’s roughly the same number of urinals found at any Mars Hill Church). By any description we are a small…
Being Wise In Church Revitalisation.
I am away for a few days so I will not be personally posting until some time next week. I found this small article recently and thought it may be worth further reflection.