Over the last few years I’ve regularly read the Journal of Aggressive Christianity edited by Major Stephen Court and a number blogs by various salvationists around the world. I’ve read books by salvationists and non-salvationists alike on varying topics. I’ve spent time studying God’s word. I’ve experienced the Holy Spirit’s power in new and awesome …
Tag Archive: Cell Group
Jan 20 2011
7 “Be’s” That Make Small Group Ministry Successful
It’s now been about 18 months since I took over leading the House Group ministry at L’Islet Salvation Army and during that time I’ve learnt a lot, experienced a lot and read a lot. There’s plenty of content on the interweb all about making small group ministry successful, but I thought I’d share with you …
Dec 27 2010
2010 Year Review
We’re here again – another year has flown by with highs and lows. I’m in a new job, with all the challenges and opportunities that brings; we’ve had our officers, Jamie and Claire with us for a full year, and I’ve spent a year leading the house group. When it comes to this time of …
Oct 17 2010
The Pursuit of Growth
There’s something ironic about how stuff comes up to try and get you down – Satan trying to get in the way of going what you’re trying to do. The ironic bit – preaching about growth when the attendance at church for that service is at its lowest for an awfully long time. Maybe it’s …
Sep 09 2010
Personal Revelation
For a long time I’ve been concerned about how to grow our church. How do you get people in? How do you get them to stay? I would love to see hundreds in my church, but that was totally missing the point. Before the church will grow the people need to grow. How can people …
Mar 09 2010
House Group – Intro To Revelation
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Revelation is an Apocalyptic book, which is a style of writing popular among the Jews and Christians of the first century, and therefore would be better understood by them than we would now. It is written by John (though not necessarily the same John who wrote the gospel, one of Jesus’ 12 – doubt is …
Mar 02 2010
Revelation
The house group I lead at the Army have asked to look at the book of Revelation. So, over the next few weeks I’ll be studying that in depth and I’ll be adding some of my thoughts here together with some of the discussions we have. We live in the end times – I’m sure …