The recent announcement that Birmingham City Council is in effect bankrupt will not have done the city’s image much good. It may put off business from locating here and people from investing in the city. It is likely to make a lot of people reluctant to relocate here for work. This might affect your thinking… Continue reading Birmingham’s bankruptcy is exactly why we need church planters
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Together for the city and the Gospel
In part of the conversation that followed on from Jonathan Carswell’s provocative tweet about church planting, he followed up with this statement: “I wonder what great good could come by sacrificing style prefs and prize unity/partnership?” It’s a good question to ask and fortunately, we are in a place to answer that question. I can’t… Continue reading Together for the city and the Gospel
Building church planting and multiplication into your DNA
These notes are based on a workshop I recently ran with the Birmingham Collective, a group of churches committed to encouraging and supporting one another in church planting, re-planting and revitalisation. One of our aims is to plant churches that go on to plant churches. So how do we encourage that? Well, one way is… Continue reading Building church planting and multiplication into your DNA
Church planting or church migration?
In 2010, a number of churches and Christians agreed to partner together to see 20 new churches planted by 2020 in Birmingham and then after that, to seek another 30 planted by 2030 with the hope that if each of the 50 churches planted again within our lifetime, that would be about 100 new churches.… Continue reading Church planting or church migration?
Thinking about church planting but don’t know where or how to start?
I recently asked a couple of questions on twitter about church planting. One of the questions I asked was about the kinds of barriers that people experience that make it less likely for them to consider getting involved in church planting. Now, for a lot of people, it’s simply that they have no sense of… Continue reading Thinking about church planting but don’t know where or how to start?
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