This week, I read we have discovered a new galaxy, the largest ever. It is 65m light years across. How do they even measure such things? In a children’s Bible recently, I read that God spoke everything that exists out of nothing, but then was extremely pained when we stopped trusting him and did what …
From this….to this. How God transforms people in the harvest.
A few years ago, we started Discovery Dinners to address the most common brokenness in the Western middle class, purposelessness. A few dinners later, and we discovered a whole group of people within those who were spiritually searching. So, we formed another group, Discover Life which is a fortnightly long form Discovery Bible Study. Couples …
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Climbing down from the donkey
It was said that you can track the halt of the growth of Wesley’s Methodist denomination, when the last of his disciples finally stepped down from their donkey, and setup a church. The hundreds who emulated his model of going from village to village on a donkey to preach the good news, finally gave up …
The quietness of disciple making multiplication
The advent of social media has meant that an already loud church is able to proclaim many messages of greatness and achievement to an ever-sceptical world. I have been aware for some time, of the constant presence of many who spruik their achievements for God; from pastors to prisoners, evangelists to street preachers it seems …
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God can’t do it
There’s a young man in Africa – Wilson is his name, who has seen over 4,000 churches catalysed across cities, nations and an entire region. He is both young, and equally sketchy talking about numbers but things are still multiplying. But Wilson didn’t set about leading hundreds of thousands of people to Christ. He took …
Just Jesus
There is simply nothing in this life that surpasses the joy of seeing people discover Jesus. Non-believers, those with a suspicion of God, those who have been let down, whose lives are not good enough – broken people, suspicious. Discovering Jesus. This has been our experience over the past couple of months, as we draw …
Chasing Government
It’s the mark of the modern church, that more and more Christians see political activism as the way to sort out society. Daily, I receive emails asking me to petition government about some or other misdemeanour, or a conspiracy about how this election was lost, or that politician is unjust. More recently, I have even …
The God of Grace!
Fruitpickers Prayer Guide, April 2023 'For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.' John 1:16 We thank and praise the Almighty Father for the gift of Grace! He should have come riding on the clouds, with millions of angels surrounding Him, shrouded in unapproachable light, to pass a just judgement of eternal …
May we be Blessed!
Fruitpickers prayer guide, March 2023 "Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!"Luke 1:45 Thank God for examples of ordinary people like Mary - just a teenager who was probably quite poor and likely uneducated - who believed God when He told her He would do impossible things …
Keys to Disciple Making: #1 Prayer
Oswald Chambers once said, "prayer is not preparation for the main task, prayer is the main task." It is something very few in the West really understand. Above all else, prayer makes the difference between success and failure in helping others discover Jesus, and committing their lives to him. In a recent study by Mission …
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