Don’t create systems that create dependences. If you want to destroy a movement – don’t make it easily reproducible.We believe in the priesthood of all believers, but it’s largely a doctrine not a practice. As long as you’re wearing a collar it speaks louder than your words. You’re representing the institution. It’s very hard to get a person to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it.
@Alanhirsch – ReMission at #NWNLC12
It’s not that the church has a mission, but that the mission has a church!
@Alanhirsch; ReDisciple – at #NWNLC12
Don’t “do evangelism,” make disciples!
@alanhirsch – ReJesus, session 1 at #nwlc12
We have to think like revolutionaries again. We’ve been too complacent and need to think like movements. Across Europe, we’ve seen what happens when the church doesn’t.
When people say ‘What’s your plan?’ try this answer, ‘I’m trusting God.’
When people say ‘What’s your plan?’ try this answer, ‘I’m trusting God.’
The only thing we know about the future is ‘He’s in it!’
The only way we got here is he got us here.
Playing to my strengths
Tomorrow we go away as a staff team. In recent weeks I’ve asked everyone to do the Clifton Strengthfinders test, most of them have come back from it saying it’s ‘scarily accurate.’ Here’s mine – I took the test a few years ago but I don’t think it changes that much so I haven’t redone it. If you know me, does this sound like me? Have you done the test – or do you prefer others? I’ve done DISC and Myers-Briggs. I certainly don’t agree with the last sentence of the first one. Anyway, I have to be going… Activator People who are especially talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient. Maximizer People who are especially talented in the Maximizer theme focus on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence. They seek to transform something strong into something superb. Adaptability People who are especially talented in the Adaptability theme prefer to “go with the flow.” They tend to be “now” people who take things as they […]
Manchester Marathon Miracles & Mud
The weather was bad enough to have stopped thousands who’d paid £50 or so to enter from even turning up so there were far fewer than the 8000 expected. Hundreds of people didn’t finish because of hypothermia and I didn’t stop shivering for about an hour after I finished.
Work – your GIFT to God
The idea that your work is your gift back to God comes sharply into focus when we look at what happened to Cain and Abel.
KP Yohannan at Ivy Manchester
1 John 2:6… He who says he abides in him out also to walk as he walked Anyone who says he’s a Christian should live as Christ lived So How do we do that practically How did Jesus walk his life on earth? Jn 4 – Samaritan Woman The disciples saw something very strange Jesus is talking to a woman Culturally wrong! It was a special assignment for him to go there for one woman. They are confused He says ‘I’m already full.’ He says ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me’ I ate God’s will. The Lord says ‘lift up your eyes – look away from your little world of yours – and see.’ This one woman’s destiny change and the promise of it filled up his heart. Do you let your heart be broken by the lostness of people? 35 million of them in one weekend go into the dirty waters of the Ganges to have their sins cleansed. They perish without having chance to come to know the gospel. We blame the […]
The 5 Questions People Ask Before They’ll Invite A Friend To Your Church
Here’s what people ask before hand, before they will ever ask a friend to come along. In other words, if nobody is bringing anyone, here’s why…