Shared Life and Geographic Spread
Key to making missional communities work well is a shared life. This is surely at the heart of New Testament Christianity. It is also about sharing our lives together. Doing ordinary life together....
View ArticleProactive and Reactive Intentionality
We have found it helpful to make a distinction between proactive and reactive intentionality. As a team we may have agreed a specific missional focus. But this does not mean we should not take other...
View ArticleMission Through Community
Jesus said: ‘A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.’ (John...
View ArticleLoving Your Neighbourhood
Tim Keller identifies the following characteristics of a missional church (in ‘The Missional Church’, June 2001). I’ve found them very helpful in encouraging groups to recognise what it means to engage...
View ArticleUnderstanding Your Neighbourhood
Recognising our missional context means we can no longer assume the church understands the culture. We need to get to know our neighbourhood, its people, their stories, values, worldview and culture....
View ArticleMaking Community Work: The Centrality of the Cross
Some people are quite excited by the idea of ‘missional community’. They have high ideals. They want to recreate something of what was going on the New Testament or at least revive some of the dreams...
View ArticleWhy does the GCM Collective Exist?
The GCM Collective Exists to Promote, Create and Equip Gospel Communities on Mission. A gospel community is a group of believers that lives out the mission of God together as family, in a specific area...
View ArticleTim Keller on the Gospel in Life
A review of Timothy Keller, Gospel in Life: Grace Changes Everything DVD and Workbook , Zondervan, 2010. In January I claimed that Tim Keller’s The Prodigal God DVD and workbook was my resource of...
View ArticleReview of Organic Leadership by Neil Cole
A review of Neil Cole, Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are, Baker, 2009 . Neil Cole is the author of Organic Church and, as the title suggests, in Organic Leadership he takes the...
View ArticleSlow church
In recent years we have been offered all sorts of options for church: organic church, messy church, simply church, total church. Let me (with tongue in cheek) suggest another: slow church. There is a...
View ArticleAre You Reading the Right Books?
As church leaders it can be difficult to read the books we need to read. We are often overwhelmed with emergency reading—reading in areas of the church where we are deficient (e.g. children’s ministry,...
View ArticleMichael Emlet on cross talk
A review of Michael R. Emlet, CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet, New Growth Press, 2009. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Rick tells you his wife is divorcing him after 22 years...
View ArticleRap in Gospel Ministry
These notes are from a talk by Efrem Buckle at the recent Reaching the Unreached [http://www.reachingtheunreached.org.uk/] conference in Barnsley, England. They are my notes from a talk so they may...
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