Wednesday is my day off. I love Wednesday. This week I dropped my wife at work at the hospital and then thought I’d call in at one of my favourite local places to eat a socially distant but healthy breakfast, drink a coffee, and read a novel. I was especially keen because the Chancellor has told us to ‘help out by eating out’ which is my kind of patriotic act. He incentivised this by effectively making my breakfast and coffee half price through August. Win/win. I won’t name the place but I am regular and know the guy who runs it so I said Hi and then said with a smile, ‘Can’t wait for the half price deal!’ His response? “I’VE NOT GOT ROUND TO IT YET.” Those are seven words that will put you out of business, right there. Now this is of course your classic first world problem. I can make breakfast myself. I am actually very good at breakfast. Their coffee is okay, not great to be honest but it’s the being out and about that makes […]
CHANGE THE CHURCH – TO SAVE THE WORLD!
Corona Virus may have changed the world, but GOD wants to transform the church – to save the world, and I am grateful to be alive to see it and be part of it happening.
JUDE: False Teachers, false prophets, false Christians?
I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend – to fight – for the faith that was once for all delivered to God’s holy people.
Lessons For A Post Covid Church From Cambridge University
Online possibilities are not just a means to get through the current crisis but the future ‘new wineskin’ that the church has not been pouring anything like enough into. What if this is how we disciple nations?!
REFRAMING CHURCH with Alan Hirsch – Video Interview
Alan Hirsch is the founder of 100Movements, Forge Mission Training Network, and Future Travelers. KNOWN FOR HIS INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO MISSION, ALAN IS WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE A THOUGHT-LEADER AND KEY MISSION STRATEGIST FOR CHURCHES ACROSS THE WESTERN WORLD. Alan is the author of 5Q: Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ, The Forgotten Ways; co-author of The Shaping of Things to Come, ReJesus and The Faith of Leap. (with Michael Frost); Untamed (with Debra Hirsch); Right Here, Right Now (with Lance Ford): On the Verge (with Dave Ferguson); The Permanent Revolution (with Tim Catchim): and Reframation (with Mark Nelson) This week I had the pleasure of a fun and wide ranging convo with Alan. Things we discussed included… The world has changed! How do we ‘reframe’ to see with ‘soft eyes’? Insights from Alan’s fantastic ‘must read for the future’ book Reframation and general great stuff ranging from; Aldous Huxley Reframing Church – without buildings? Never going back to ‘normal’. Learning to play a new game. ‘Dinner party’ churches. Liminality, risk, innovation. Lessons from the persecuted church. Openness and evangelistic opportunities (TODAY global mission is the 15th of May not the 18th!) APEST […]
Don’t waste this opportunity arguing about Attractional / Incarnational. Embrace Both/And.
in this Covid-19 season, when people are so much more open and looking for hope than ever, I thought, “Why not think differently? Why not resist the either/or, and do both instead – as well as we can?
How To Lead Through Crisis – Lessons From A Nuclear Sub.
There are things we must do differently in a crisis, quickly, to enable us to have a future that we will be able to create something new for. Some things we just have to do now because “The ship won’t take much more of this Cap’n!”
What would we do without the Lord?
You can’t put Jesus on lockdown.
He healed the sick, still does. He raised the dead! Remember his friend Lazarus? How he called him out of the graveyard by name, because if he hadn’t been specific everybody would have come back to life at his command there and then!
What’s NEXT for the Church (and everyone) and what must leaders do RIGHT NOW?
We have prayed that we would be like the church in the Book of Acts – you have to be careful what you pray for!
What are we doing today at Ivy Church to respond to the Corona Virus?
I can’t imagine how anyone could get through this without knowing what John 3:16 tells us – that God loves the world. He loves it so much he gave his Son to save anyone who puts their trust in Him. Jesus Christ is God.