I recently read Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Tipping Point”. Gladwell explores (very entertainingly) factors that trigger the emergence of epidemics (i.e. ideas, trends or diseases that rapidly emerge in a population to massive effect).
As a Christian, it immediately...
Nurturing church plants to have BOTH a mission mindset and strong relationships with the local community (Part 2)
The challenge we are faced with is to build a mission-minded Christian community with deep and wide-ranging relational connections. We want everyone to end up in area C. In...
Nurturing church plants to have BOTH a mission mindset and strong relationships with the local community (Part 1)
Since planting a church on a social housing development in central London 3 years ago, by God’s grace, we have grown in two ways. Firstly, a small but growing group of...
Church planting: Should the meeting or the community take priority at the outset? (Part 3 – Understanding “the culture gap” and introducing “rent-a-crowd”)
I’ve asked the question whether establishing a church meeting is always the best strategy...
Church planting: Should the “church meeting” or the “church community” take priority at the outset? (Part 2 – A “community led” model; read part 1 here)
COMMUNITY-LED CHURCH PLANTS:
Under this approach, the church-planting team focus on...
Posted by Radstock Staff
Have you ever felt your heart swell on news of what God is doing in other places? I had one of those experiences recently, when, on a fleeting visit, I heard a snippet of what God is doing in Inner Mongolia: new churches being planted, young leaders being...
The church that I pastor is located in Northern Virginia, about a half hour outside of Washington, DC. We have a great and increasingly common mission field: our own backyard. The neighborhood in which our church is situated is about 70% immigrant, mostly Latin American and Asian Indian.
Our...
Posted by Paul Williams
Part of The Crowded House network of churches, Urban Life is a church seeking to bring Gospel hope and transformation in an inner-city area of Derby, UK. Recently we caught up with Andy Thomson, a member of the team at Urban Life, and asked him how things are going...