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The Middle Sister’s Mission
Sacred Agents #111: A small group exercise to explore how our good news takes different forms in different settings.
Encouragement
Invite Your Friends to Church
Super simple 1 minute video on inviting your friends to church.
Fruitful Church
Book by Andrew Turner: What is real success for a church? What are we aiming for?
If it’s all about size and health, then why did Jesus curse that big, healthy-looking fig tree? Could it be that we are aiming to shape churches that will impress everyone but him? What does a truly fruitful church look like?
Fruitful Church exposes how, ironically, the typical aims of growth and health actually choke real life from churches. It explores an alternative vision that refreshes every aspect of local church life and compels it to awaken from static religious institution towards the dynamic missional movement that God first planted.
Who Gets Jesus?
Sacred Agents #103: Are our gatherings as inviting and accessible as Jesus is?
The Ungated Community
Sacred Agents #104: That ‘the gates of Hades will not overcome’ the church is even better news than we perhaps thought.
The Power of a Farewell
SacredAgents #105: An exercise for small groups in articulating the good news … and more
The Orchestration of Salvation
Short video about how God draws people to himself. Interesting twist at the end – discussion starter
More of a Heart than a Science
Sacred Agents #106: More of a Heart than a Science – 2min read in which I tell of the Swiss exchange student who threatened to kill me.
Getting In and Out of the Way
Sacred Agents #102: Finding the balance between absenting ourselves from what God is doing and projecting ourselves all over it.
Re-membering the Body
Sacred Agents #100: The huge benefits of doing mission together. “If we want people to see Christ, we should show them the body of Christ. Of all the ways that we manage to stuff up the mission God has given us, surely taking it on as an individual rather than team event is the most hapless…”