When we ‘give our lives to Christ’ we don’t just give him our past sins, we actually die to the old Βίος (Bios) life in order to receive the everlasting Ζωή (Zoe) life!
Helping Your Church Grow In Spiritual Maturity
Tag: discipleship
From Crowd Building To Disciple Making – Maturity Through Mission & Multiplication
It’s Time to Grow Up.
Ephesians 4:14-15 says none of us are meant to stay as spiritual infants. I’ve met people in churches who’ve told me they’ve been Christians for 30 years – when the truth is they’ve actually been Christian for one year, 30 times!
Every Disciple Is Meant To Have A Deliverance Ministry!
One woman slept nightly with her pet python sprawled across her body. Eventually, the snake stopped eating so she was worried about it. A vet discovered the snake was curling itself around her to size her up, and starving itself as preparation to devour her!
LEADING IN A YEAR OF EXPANSION
Heaven’s desire and decree is for 2025 to be a year of EXPANSION as the Lord is calling us to stretch wider, dig deeper, and expand beyond what we have yet experienced or ever imagined.
Here’s how I want this vision to inspire and shape my own leadership in 2025 and I invite you to consider it too.
Lessons for the Church from Supporting Elite Athletes. Christians In Sport’s Dr Graham Daniels on the Future Church Podcast
Including – God thinks of sport, how the church can connect with people well through it, how vital the church is for elite professionals, the highs and lows of triumph and defeat and how to manage both, the recent Olympics where so many athletes went very public with their faith. This is an incredibly encouraging and insightful interview and you don’t need to be a sports pro or armchair pundit to get a lot from listening!
BECOMING A HIGH IMPACT CHURCH – 1. Measure What Matters Most
What we measure determines what we think success is.
Most churches still tend to measure by the ABCs:
ATTENDANCE, BUILDINGS and CASH (Offerings)
These are useful, but not optimal – or even biblical!
Being BIG, WEALTHY and INFLUENTIAL does not necessarily mean a church is healthy (as we have seen so graphically and too in recent years).
HOW Does God measure success?
New Podcast Episode – Geoff Surratt: Steering and Staying The Course In Ministry
What does ‘success’ in ministry really look like?
How do we keep the main thing the main thing?
What devotional practices can practically help us to stay the course?
What guardrails and what do we need to pay attention to that might prevent us from failing and spoiling a leadership legacy?
Are We Really Preaching The Gospel? Ben Bradwell.
It’s not just about me dying and going to heaven. The gospel is God is showing up here and now in broken places, in hard times in lives, in sickness… this is what the kingdom looks like. For everyday people in all sorts of ways!
FIND YOUR S.H.A.P.E – SERVE GOD’S PLAN
‘What God gives you is his gift to you, what you do with your gifts is your gift back to him.’ Dave Holden
Only The Apostolic Church Can Fulfil The Great Commission
The commission was directly given to the apostles but indirectly given to the ecclesia in every generation. After the early apostles died, the commission remained – and so does the authority, until it is fulfilled it will remain in force.
So they had a commission and were sent to fulfil it. In their generation the church grew like crazy and changed everything, everywhere. We have the same commission and we are sent to do it. That’s the key, they went, because they were sent. That’s an apostolic church.