There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 4 Jacob and Moses)

For the last few weeks, we have been looking at leaving churches in a godly way.  A lot of people have emailed me or Facebook’d me after reading the blog and it has really helped them – they were planning to leave a church and found out how to do it properly with dignity and grace.Continue reading “There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 4 Jacob and Moses)”

The Life Changing Power of Grace Mixed With Truth!

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we behold his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth (John 1.14) When Jesus lived on planet earth, He was full of grace and truth.  Not full of grace, that’s not Jesus.  Not full ofContinue reading “The Life Changing Power of Grace Mixed With Truth!”

There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 3 Leaving Checklist)

Here is our final week’s blogging on leaving churches.  It’s a sort of check list to help you know you are leaving well.  I have seen people leave great churches well and go on to greatness, I have seen people leave really dysfunctional churches for the right reasons but leave the wrong way and theyContinue reading “There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 3 Leaving Checklist)”

There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 2 Don’t Leave Offended)

In our first post in this series (which can be found here), I shared about good and bad reasons to leave a local church.  In that post, I quoted the pastor’s pastor, Bob Yandian, as saying most people leave churches offended.  From my own experience and discussions with many other church leaders that is most definitelyContinue reading “There Are 50 Ways To Leave Your Church (part 2 Don’t Leave Offended)”

There Are 50 Ways to Leave Your Church! (part 1 – why leave)

There are definitely more than fifty ways to leave a church. You could just sit further and further back each week and come less and less until you have shrunk out of the back door. You could leave dramatically and cause a scene, email a bunch of people, hold secret meetings and tell everyone whyContinue reading “There Are 50 Ways to Leave Your Church! (part 1 – why leave)”

I Thought This Was A Grace Church!?!

Every so often I will make a decision that leads to someone saying about Tree of Life “I thought this was a grace church!” Maybe I remove someone from the worship team for sexual immorality, or ask someone not to share a prophetic word that is a bit kooky, or preach a message that challengesContinue reading “I Thought This Was A Grace Church!?!”

10 Reasons I Am Grateful for my trip to America

Bit personal this time, but I guess most people reading this blog are interested in my personal journey… 10.  I got to hear Andrew Wommack share his views on why universalism and preterism are wrong, and it was exceptionally powerful.  These ideas are making massive inroads in the UK and messing up churches, and itContinue reading “10 Reasons I Am Grateful for my trip to America”