What is your evangelism style? Bill Hybels wrote a great book "Becoming a Contagious Christian" a good few years ago – in it he argued that we are all wired with different styles of evangelism. He made his case from Scripture, giving examples of the different ways we find it easiest to reach out [...] Read more »
Gathering the first 50
Once you have moved, gathered your core team, talked to other local church leaders, you need to gather your first 50. Fifty is a viable number for a public Sunday morning launch. It’s enough people to make things work and for it not to rattle! So where do you get they come from? People [...] Read more »
Charitable Status
Setting up as a Charity Church plants exist for charitable purposes under English and Welsh law – that is we exist to spread religion! As such when income grows to more than £5000 per annum, there is a statutory duty to register as a charity. An added benefit is that as a [...] Read more »
Gdansk Church Plant
Kev and Em Riley really have gone on a Church planting adventure – moving to Gdansk in Poland to plant Grace Church Gdansk. They have organised a Poland weeked 17-19th July for other adventurers to taste the plant too. Kev writes…. Someone once said, “What happens in Gdansk, moves the world”.The beginning [...] Read more »
Ethnographics
When Paul walked round Athens in Acts 17 he was getting a feel for the place and working out how he could communicate the Gospel to the people there. That’s now called "ethnographics" . Paul walked round, observing, talking to people and getting distressed by the sheer scale of idolatry. Verse 16 "While [...] Read more »
