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Do we really need Apostolic fathers?

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:38:00 +0000

Jesus was send by the Father to be a spiritual father for the disciples. Paul was a spiritual father to the Corinthian church. In these days we don’t recognize true spiritual fathers, just like the Corinthians (1 Cor 4:15). Why don’t we recognize them anymore? In this article Graziano, gives us five reasons: 1) a wrong picture of what a leader is, 2) we need healing of our wrong picture of father...

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“The church is dead, long live the King!”

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:08:58 +0000

What will the church of Jesus look like in 2040? 30 theologians, artists and visionaries reflected on this question. Their thoughts were captured into a new book called: “The church is dead, long live the King.” Marc van der Woude thinks the church in 2040 will be more simple, flexible and multi-coloured. Because of the globalisation, postmodernity, the rise of the creative class and the...

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House churches in the New Testament

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:12:25 +0000

What is the biblical basis for house churches in the New Testament? John Fenn shares the scriptures where house churches are mentioned or where people met in houses. From Ephesus, to Tessalonica, to Rome, over the whole Roman Empire, the first Christians met in houses. Read on to learn more!

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3,000 churches planted in 3 years in East Africa: what can we learn?

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:11:04 +0000

3,000 churches are planted in the last three years in East Africa. How did that happen? What are the keys to this multiplication? David Hunt and City Team ministries evaluated their effectiveness in ministry. God changed their vision to plant churches, who will plant churches throughout the whole world. David went of to Ethiopia and established partnerships with local organisations. Read to learn...

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Leadership Essentials – Contextualization Is Not What You Think It Is

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:03:12 +0000

“Contextualization by outsiders is not the issue! Obedience to the Word of God and His Holy Spirit within each context is the issue.” says David Watson. The main focus of missions is making disciples of Jesus who obey His commands out of love (with the help of the Holy Spirit). The gospel is lived out differently in a each specific context. The context of the first century church is different...

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Nine best simple church books

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:37:31 +0000

The Simple Church movement is growing rapidly. Lot’s of people are starting simple churches among campuses, houses, cafes and bars. Many have written good books to help understand simple church. But what are the best books? The Simple Church Europe team tried to identify the nine best simple church books that are out there. All these resources are great to help you catch the simple church vision...

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Book summary: The Cry for Spiritual Fathers - Larry Kreider

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:10:11 +0000

“For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers;” (1 Cor 4:15a,b) For the simple church movement in Europe we need spiritual fathers and mothers. Larry Kreider writes about the need for spiritual fathers and mothers and what their tasks are. They poor their lives into new born believers, encourage, serve, love and care for them. They live by example...

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Book summary: The Making of a Leader - Robert Clinton

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:11:59 +0000

What does it take to become a leader? When does leadership begin? Robert Clinton identifies the patterns God uses to develop a leader. By studying the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, Clinton has determined the six stages of leadership development, and he establishes checkpoints to clarify where you are in the process. God’s major work in leaders is not...

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Book summary: The Jesus Style - Gayle Erwin

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:52:33 +0000

“What Would Jesus Do?” a great question to ask in our daily lives. Gayle Erwin gives an exhaustive study on the nature of Jesus. Summarized by a list of His attributes: servant, not lord it over, example, child, younger, least, last, no force, no blind ambition, no reputation, human, obedient, and death. The book boldly discusses problems Jesus would have had with many modern day institutions and...

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15 ways why we don’t see harvest

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:35:10 +0000

Why don’t we see a Church Planting Movement yet in the West, while in other continents millions are coming to Christ? Felicity shares 15 points why we don’t see a big harvest. Here are a few of them: lack of apostolic passion, we don’t GO to the people, we don’t have a vision of making disciples and there is a lack of training. Continue reading to learn more!

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Sweden: friendship sparks a new network of simple churches

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:01:06 +0000

In 2002 Swedish church planter Charles Kridiotis from Stockholm had a dramatic burnout and as a consequence went into a season of prayer. “This led me on a journey where I founded my identity in Jesus more deeply, and started relearning from the Gospels and the Book of Acts about the Kingdom of God and the kind of church Jesus is building,” he says.

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Ukraine: How an addict became a ‘man of peace’

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:17:27 +0000

Valeri, an infamous hooligan from Obolon, the most heavily populated region of Kiev, turned to God from a life of drugs, alcohol, and crime two years ago. He is a classic example of what Jesus called a ‘man of peace’. Jesus said, when you find a man of peace, stay in his house. In other words - stay with him in his context. Instead of extracting him from his friends and family, help him reach...

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‘Treasure hunting’ helps to plant house churches

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:04:31 +0000

Graziano Crepaldi is a house church planter from Switzerland who works in various nations in Europe. After starting and developing a house church network in Switzerland in 2003, he felt God’s call to also invest in his homeland Italy and in Balkan nations like Serbia. In Italy he found a few people whom he trained and coached, and today there are 12 house churches in various localities (of which...

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Spain: Starting on the wrong foot

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:27:28 +0000

“I’ve learned many lessons in simple church planting, but a very important one is: don’t start a house church by gathering Christians,” church planter Ross Rohde said. God called him to plant simple churches in 2001 in Spain. With some friends, he hosted an international conference for house church people. Out of this conference at least 30 new churches were started by gathering Christians. They...

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A simple church network in multicultural city Amsterdam

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:04:54 +0000

Matthew and his family are missionaries from the USA and live since four years in Amsterdam West. Here they intentionally build relationships with people from different ethnic backgrounds in their neighbourhood. They meet in several house churches where things are done very interactive and spontaneously. Every month they have a big celebration and every week they host a kidsclub with 45...

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UK: Simple church planting across the twelve regions of Britain

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:30:19 +0000

How do you develop vision for reaching regions in your country for Christ? Peter J. Farmer tells us how God gave him a vision to see a Church Planting Movement happen in the UK. His story starts with his work among the unchurched in Meadows (inner city of Nottingham) in 2000. Young people and families came for food, prayer, life and the bible. From there God began to speak to him to plant simple...

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Norway: Keys for multiplication of simple churches

Tue, 11 May 2010 09:08:28 +0000

What are the keys for multiplication in a Western context? Erling Thu, from Kristent Nettverk, shares how their network grew to more than 20 localities. One key for multiplication was just obeying the voice of the Holy Spirit. Besides this, purposely sending out people and finding the person of peace led to the planting of a lot of churches. To further facilitate multiplication, an apostolic team...

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Czech Republic: Roma gypsies meet Jesus

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:03:09 +0000

In 2005 Johan moved with his familty from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic to work among the Roma gypsies. Life was not easy, but the familiy persevered. Johan found out that the Roma people were discriminated and very poor. “It hurt me to see them following the god of money, instead of following God. I broke down in tears. The family was shocked by my emotional outburst. This was a turning...

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UK: Being church in a natural way

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:02:54 +0000

Chris Scilla from Bedford, UK, shares how meetings in his house church network are held naturally, where the Holy Spirit is given control. In 2001 Chris and his friend Roger started to meet every week for prayer, talk and mutual encouragement. They invited others and a simple church was birthed. They gathered as friends over a cup of tea and started to chat about life and needs of the people...

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UK: Church in the neighborhood

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:17:44 +0000

The house church network ‘Neighbours and Nations’ is living on each others’ doorstep in Coventry in the UK. Their vision is to develop church ‘neighbourhood by neighbourhood’. They build friendships, laugh and serve the community around them. Though they are just starting and do have a steep learning curve, God is working among them to express the kingdom of God in their area.

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How to witness on planes

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:04:44 +0000

Jesus made it clear that his disciples were to travel, whether across the sea (”...into all the world…”), or across the street (like Philip), we are to put one beautiful foot in front of the other and GO and proclaim the good news (Rom. 10:15). In Bible times chariots were to people like the Ethiopian man what planes, trains and automobiles are to us today, simply modes of transport. Some of my...

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How to get to the 3rd and 4th generation in a CPM?

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:21:11 +0000

Download the file here: CPMTF_2010_201a_What-is-Getting-CPMs-to-4th-Generation-and-beyond.pdf Source: Steve Addison

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How to increase our effectiveness in prayer

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:01:07 +0000

Go to this link to see the teaching and download the notes (pdf). Source: Mike Bickle

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Ten prayers to strenghten our inner man: F-E-L-L-O-W-S-H-I-P

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:54:38 +0000

Go to this link to see the teaching and download the notes (pdf). Source: Mike Bickle

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Fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit: five practical phrases (T-R-U-S-T)

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:33:14 +0000

Go to this link to see the teaching and download the notes (pdf). Source: Mike Bickle

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Mentoring: from equipper to peer

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:21:55 +0000

Mentoring is a two-way relationship in which both participants learn and grow. Great mentors are learners, and there is no greater learning opportunity than to guide others in their discoveries, and discover afresh what we have known and forgotten, and to have the delight of finding out new things through and with our mentorees. Change characterizes the mentoring relationship. The goal of...

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From a traditional house group to a group that reproduces

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:38:58 +0000

Question to ask to evaluate your mentoring process

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:27:22 +0000

Below are questions you can use to evaluate your process in mentoring leaders: • Is there an agreement in place that outlines the mentoring relationship? (This doesn’t have to be a formal written document, but should be mutually understood.) • Are my mentorees and I covering all the areas of life that make great leaders? • Relationship to God ...

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Listening to God and starting simple churches by Missional Resource Teams

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:43:48 +0000

Simple church planters in the West are experimenting with new, simple ways of planting churches in the harvest. Out of one sentence they heard from God, John White and Kent Smith from Denver (USA) started to experiment with Missional Resource Teams (MRT’s): teams of two or three joining together to facilitate simple church planting in a specific area. John told us how the Lord directed them and...

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The fifty commands of Christ

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:47:37 +0000

Download the file below for an overview of these 50 commands of Christ.

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