Topic: Church Planting

Good Questions

  Wednesday 1st May, 2024
  Author: Martin Spratt
  Categories: missional, Simple Church

Here are 20 big questions worth pondering if you love Jesus but honestly don’t like going to a traditional church.

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The Celtic approach to living missionally

  Wednesday 1st May, 2024
  Author: Phil Brown
  Categories: missional, Simple Church

The attractiveness of a loving Christian Community was demonstrated in the success of the Celtic church.

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Reformation - 'the action or process of reforming an institution or practice'

  Wednesday 28th February, 2024
  Author: Phil Brown

During my recent visit to Geneva, Switzerland I was reminded of the lives of great church leaders who challenged and reformed the church....

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Open For Business

  Thursday 9th April, 2020
  Categories: missional
  Topic(s): Church Planting

“Open for business, the church is not closed” As the COVID-19 Pandemic hits communities and nations, we find ourselves in places that we...

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Is your simple church healthy?

  Saturday 9th September, 2017
  Author: Phil Brown

Establishing a simple church/missional community is the exciting initial step. However, it is important that the missional community is...

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7 Ways to Keep Your Missional Community from Multiplying

  Monday 21st August, 2017

Here are some ways to ensure that your MC never multiplies. If you follow these simple steps, you’ll ensure yourself a long life of...

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5 MINUTE VIDEO: Starting Organic Church

  Monday 7th August, 2017
  Categories: Simple Church

In this video, Keith offers advice about what to do if your spouse isn't as excited about ekklesia as you are and why you should take...

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How to Start a House Church

  Tuesday 15th November, 2016
  Categories: Simple Church

House churches are not organizations that require people with administrative skills or immense giftedness to coordinate and direct a...

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I used to promote church planting

  Monday 1st August, 2016
  Author: Phil Brown
  Categories: missional

As a church planter, I used to promote church planting as the solution to the growth! My emphasis has changed to focus on making...

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Why, Oh Why Didn't I Take the Blue Pill?

  Sunday 1st March, 2015
  Author: Maurice Smith
  Categories: Simple Church

O.K., the reference is to the first Matrix movie. And I need to "set up" two scenes. In the first scene Neo (the Christ figure in the...

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Directions

  Monday 1st December, 2014
  Author: Phil Brown
  Categories: leadership

Many of us are involved in missional faith communities, simple churches, house churches, kingdom ministry or whatever term we use to...

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Multiplying Groups - The Crucible Project

  Sunday 1st June, 2014
  Author: Peter Fowler
  Categories: missional, Discipleship

It is not difficult to form new groups, what is difficult is to instil the DNA of kingdom multiplication within each new group from its...

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Coming Alongside Not Yet Christians

  Saturday 1st June, 2013
  Author: John Fischer

I am normally not a fan of ten steps to this or five ways to do that. But for one of my recent talks I came up with these six things to...

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If I Had Organic Church To Do Over Again

  Saturday 1st June, 2013
  Author: Maurice Smith
  Categories: Simple Church

Let’s pretend for just a moment that Jesus showed up and announced that He was going to lead your house church. What do you think He...

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