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For those of us who have been hanging round charismaticism for a number of years, the idea of the “five-fold ministries” or “APEST” or “APEPT” is nothing particularly new. It’s great to see them getting a bit more attention, whether you’re a fan of 3DM, or Hirsch/Frost, or David Devenish¹, or some...

496 years ago today one of the great heroes of the Reformation, Martin Luther, famously nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg. His original intention was to call the Roman Catholic church to change it’s ways, which he felt were ungodly. However, instead he sparked the Protesta...

A really interesting video (with transcript) from John Drane about Scotlands Missional Challenge:

http://freshexpressions.org.uk/news/missioninscotland

Any budding church planter must also devote himself to being an analyst of culture. There are many different ways to do this. I have previously¹ mentioned Walt Mueller, an American who yearly watches the MTV Awards to peer through the “cultural window”². Another route, probably one that is much...

We’re big fans of the work of 3DM at Forge - they’ve done some really excellent work, and we refer to them a lot during the Invest course. Their LifeShapes discipleship material is a fantastic way to present key discipleship principles in a way that is not only memorable, but duplicatable: makin...

In 3 days time a small cohort of fresh-faced missional pioneers will join us again for the Invest course. Just like previous years, they will come with a vast amount of knowledge and experience, along with some big questions and a small amount of baggage.

One of the biggest questions we ask over...