Discipling Nations

May 2010 Discipling Nations I have just come back from a visit to the Philippines. On my first morning in Manila I had the joy of meeting Darrow Miller over breakfast at the guest house we both were staying at. Darrow is the author of the book ‘Discipling Nations’ and is the co-founder of the [...]

Creating a Culture of Influence

April 2010 Creating a culture of influence by Mal Fletcher Mal Fletcher is the founder of Next Wave International a faith-based communications group based in London which is training organizations to engage the future and move society forward in a positive direction. Prior to this role Mal worked in Australia and was the pioneer of [...]

Business as mission

March 2010 Missional shift within churches Leadership conducted a survey in May 2008 asking nearly 700 evangelical pastors how their perceptions of the gospel and mission currently compare with their understanding a decade ago. The results clearly indicate that pastors’ attitudes and beliefs are shifting. When asked if “the kingdom of God is a present [...]

Mission of the church

Feb 2010 The Mission of the Church I have enjoyed reading recently Tom Wright’s book ‘Surprised by Hope’. The second section of this book is an excellent discussion on the mission of the church in the light of the centrality of the resurrection. In it Wright encourages us to rethink some of our basic truths [...]

Kingdom on Facebook

Jan 2010 Kingdom on Facebook As mentioned at the end of last year I see merit in using the technology of Facebook to promote discussion on the Kingdom. You can participate in this discussion by joining Facebook and linking to my profile and the discussion on the Kingdom. If you are already on Facebook please [...]

Kingdom and church leadership

December 2009 Kingdom and church leadership In the meetings we hold regularly with pastors to look at the Kingdom the biggest challenge they face is to pull back from their focus on leading their church and to see the wider dimension of the Kingdom. This does not mean they are to neglect their leadership role [...]

Awakening the nations

November 2009 Awakening the Nations Report from Vanuatu Last month I had the privilege to be one of the speakers at the Awakening the Nations conference in Vanuatu – “Leadership for Church, Government and Nations”. This conference is the vision of Pastor Roy Funu (pictured) from the Solomon Islands who is now based in Bundaberg [...]

Promoting discussion on the Kingdom

October 2009 No 2 Promoting discussion on the Kingdom I am part of a couple of ministers’ networks that meet regularly to talk about the Kingdom. We have found these times very helpful and we would like to see others enter into this same conversation because we feel the message of the Kingdom is very [...]

8 statements on the Kingdom

October 2009 8 statements on the Kingdom of God by Derek Brown My desire to promote the message of the Kingdom involves refining and developing the way this truth is expressed. Recently I have been working on a simple summary of the key elements of a Kingdom theology which has led to the following 8 [...]

10 Paradigm shifts for leaders

September 2009 10 Paradigm shifts for leaders The way we think about church has to change – that is the view of Eric Swanson. In this article he lists ten key paradigm shifts that church leaders need to make for their churches to be relevant in today’s world. Swanson offers many examples of churches that [...]

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