Month: October 2013

As I am currently traveling in Africa, I am relying on other bloggers and writers to share their insights with you. My friend at Life Beyond the Walls has written an excellent post that suggests legacy churches (institutional churches) are like a life-support machine: they are sometimes helpful but not if you stay plugged in…

Several years ago, at a Verge conference, Alan Hirsch said: "Every believer is a church planter; and every church is a church planting church." Now, let me say, that this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever… unless you have a Biblical understanding of the organic nature of church. As long as we think of church as…

Although most of us understand that we, as God’s people, are the church, we consistently misuse that term and many others.  I remain guilty of this myself.  But, the result is that we use language that continuously waters down the true wonder of who we are in Christ and our purpose in Him. When we…

Steve Smith has written an excellent article in Frontier Missions that sketches out a the path to a church planting movement using a diagram that can fit on a napkin. Steve's challenge is to set our sails, by surrendering to God's ways, so that we are able to catch whatever movement God is initiating.  This…