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10 Things They Never Tell You About Church Planting!

10. Your house will be full of stuff you cannot store in the venue you are hiring for your services. You won’t be able to get a glass of milk without tripping over speakers, cables, leaflets, music stands, offering envelopes and boxes of Sunday School toys. 9. The first people to come to a newContinue reading “10 Things They Never Tell You About Church Planting!”

Jesus is not the reason for the season…

Every year we get people telling us “Jesus is the Reason for the Season”. It rhymes, it sounds spiritual, but it isn’t true! Jesus is not the reason for Christmas. Jesus has existed for all eternity as part of the Godhead. The reason the Word became flesh wasn’t for His benefit, wasn’t for His safety,Continue reading “Jesus is not the reason for the season…”

Abundant Supply

Tonight was awesome!  Simply awesome! Duncan Sherwin kicked off the conference with a powerful message on money. Some of his comments on trusting God and not money, and putting money into context (the word money is in the Bible more than the word faith) and showing us how to relate to money was brilliant. ThenContinue reading “Abundant Supply”

Making Disciples – the Truth…

For some reason many people use “making disciples” as a code phrase for “being the church policeman/ being a bully for Jesus”. Making disciples was never about investigating people’s lives to make sure they come up to our high standards – it wasn’t even about ethics. It was about training people to create masterpieces. InContinue reading “Making Disciples – the Truth…”

Gracism!

Racism is defined as treating people differently on the basis of nationality or outward markers of ethnicity.  Still racism is an issue in the world and the church today – people are neglected, ignored, devalued because of their nationality and ethnicity.  Jesus said His vision is for His house to be a house of prayerContinue reading “Gracism!”