Life is pretty sweet when you get to talk about Jesus over a Latte in Costa. The highlight of last week was doing a back of a scrap of paper bridge to life diagram and ABC of how to become a Christian with a young lad in Costa Coffee. What was more fun was that [...] Read more »
Displaying all posts for ‘July, 2008’
C.H. Spurgeon
The Resurgence blog has just done a hugely helpful blog series on Spurgeon. Spurgeon is a huge hero of the faith and they have shown us some of the amazing things he did in his ministry and lessons that can and have been learned by the Acts 29 guys. Spurgeon – Introduction Spurgeon [...] Read more »
Sermon Illustrations
I’ve finally got my illustrations and quotes database online. You can search for a quote or illustration at www.adventuresofachurchplanter.com/illustrations.php You can also add illustrations at www.adventuresofachurchplanter.com/addillustration.php – they will be moderated!
Prophet, Priest & King
I found Mark Driscoll’s use of prophet, priest and king a really helpful nomenclature for building good eldership/leadership teams. Prophet: Word guys – doctrine, preaching etc (yes I know! Not so charismatics think the gift of prophecy=preaching! – Think of it as bringing the word of God and it wont hurt so much!!!) Priest: [...] Read more »
Together on a mission
Four of us were in Brighton last week for the Newfrontiers International Leaders Conference, which was amazing!The main guest speaker was Mark Driscoll who was very, very good! He challenged, inspired and generally performed open heart surgery on Newfrontiers. His main theme was on being a missional movement. In session 3 he delivered a [...] Read more »
