Category: Articles
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What movement is really about
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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The Psalty Saints
Jesus was on song when he gave us a very simple, reproducible task; the Great Commission. That is, make disciples who multiply. Like to hear a story then? Twelve months ago, I started a Whatsapp group of men called The…
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Let’s Transform our Society
I’ve watched this election with more than a passing fascination – I’ll be honest, I have a tendency at times to be a political animal, and at times my behaviour could easily become, well, animal. So much so that I…
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Does Jesus Surf?
We’ve been away as you do at the end of the year. It has been a time of reflection, considering and to be frank repentance. As we read through the Gospel of Mark, I noticed that people were ‘amazed’ at…