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...
Mark Jones Parry is on the board of Radstock and currently studying at theological college. Here he reflects on church planting, after 2 years as part of a new church in London, UK.