Author: Anthony Delaney

I speak, I write, I lead.

Lindz West of Lz7 on the skills of Evangelism

Lindz from Lz7 teaching on being an effective evangelist. Manchester is his adopted city, he is a missionary to Manchester! Sept 27th his ‘this little light’ song will be released. The government are right behind it: ‘Shine’ campaign = film young people doing something good. Put it on the website. Momentum is building! He has been doing evangelism full time for ten years. Employed by Luis Palau festival to preach to their youth, some massive crowds. But the tough stuff is When you go onto a classroom etc with his work through the Message – there are walls to be broken down Mk 1;17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men. Ever been fishing!? Hard work! Chucking out the net is dirty work, and you need some skills, but ordinary people can do it. When he did a sports science degree – he learned a definition of SKILL. Skill is a learned ability to bring about a predetermined result with maximum certainty often with minimal outlay of time, energy or both. So: do your […]

Not a matter of prayer- a matter of faith! Arnold Muwonge

Our dear friend Arnold Muwonge spoke yesterday at Ivy Manchester. His main text was Ruth 1.21 I went out full, I came back empty. The title was RHYTHMS OF CHANGE. Here are my notes on what he shared ; great stuff – and see the end for an important prophetic word from Arnold. A man he knew came from Africa, when he was at home he could smell gas, but he got used to it. It took another guy coming in to be able to alert him. When you are cooking, you may not smell how good it is: needs a stranger to come from outside to smell it. Arnold brings an outsider’s perspective! There are three main actors in Ruth. It’s a great story. BOAZ – A type of Christ. His character was integral. Dependable. He is faithful, rich (psalm 24), able to help, our provider. We must learn to trust him. He gives us everything. He will always turn up. We can be confident in him. He operates according to covenant. Our salvation is based on covenant. NAOMI […]

Pastors R Us! Debra Green evening talk

Debra Green : Equipped. Pastors r us? What is the pastor gift? Shepherding? Can mean someone with divine enabling of others, taking responsibility to model & establish trust, lead, protect those within our span of care. We can’t abdicate caring to pastors who are paid. We all should take responsibility to respond to need. Pastoral care; 4 things to remember- CARE C. Compassion. It starts here! Jesus looked at the crowd and had compassion. He saw they were hungry. Went to meet the need. Went to rescue the lost sheep. Moved to reach out. In your gut, you are moved toward a need. Splancnizomai. Not just a sense of duty, it’s more powerful. Break my heart for what breaks yours. We don’t all have the same concern about the same things & that’s OK.  Sometimes we just have to get involved, being spontaneously compassionate. You don’t need permission or a word from God to do that. But bigger issues, like ‘should I go to Haiti?’ we need to check that and run through a bigger filter. A. Aid (or Action). […]

From Trash to Treasure

I happened upon a link today from Fast Company’s twitter feed which is well worth a read, about three ways to make gold out of garbage. I was particularly grabbed by the third way. It’s all about someone seeing ‘worthless junk’ and reimagining it – better. Follow the link to Matt Brown’s own page and he tells us how he saw these old plastic horses in a junk store bargain bucket, repackaged and rebranded them  as “Night Horses” – like, ‘Nugget the life liver,” and “Sotirius, the silent Duke.” I love it! It’s just like what God does with us! This designer says he gives the objects a story of significance again. It’s part of a project called Significant Objects. We might feel worthless, neglected, useless or left out. But the Bible says to Christ followers that we should “think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; […]

HEART FOR HAITI

Just watched the full video I made from our recent mercy mission into Haiti with our Grow Group. Some snippets are on here. Looking forward to being able to share a little more on Sunday at all services at Ivy Manchester, as we prepare for another big scary step of faith to help the people who need it most right now – let’s fill the Apollo!