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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...

I spend a lot of my time reading, and part of that time is dedicated to reading blogs from around the “blogosphere”. Some of my favourite blogs also make a feature (sometimes even daily) to post their own favourite articles from around the world, which really helps me get to the “cream of the crop”....

I’ve been hanging around church planters for longer than I care to admit, and underneath we’re a simple bunch. Ultimately what we’re interested in is finding ways of bringing Jesus to people who’ve not met Him, and helping them cultivate a lasting relationship with Him. Today that often brings with...