Where do you begin when you want to start a new church? First ask God to reveal who He wants you to reach out to and who are spiritually hungry. Then gather the people together in a place where they meet. Read the Word file for more tips! On the website www.everywherechurch.com you will find simple tools which will help you to start a simple church. Check out also Green Church and CoffeeHouseChurches.
For the planting of new simple churches we need more leaders. But how do we train leaders for the movement? How did Jesus and the apostles did it? In this second article on this subject we will discuss that it is important to make your teaching interactive and easy so that people will easily pass it on to others. We will also talk about the importance of letting people discover things for themselves and many more.
For planting new churches and making new disciples we need more leaders. But how do we train leaders for the movement? How did Jesus and the apostles did it? In this first article we will discuss that Jesus and the apostles always asked obedience from the disciples. They were not holding a lineair line of teaching but were focussed on their needs.
Prayer is one of the most important ingredients in starting a simplechurch. Jesus asked us to pray for workers to be sent out in the harvest in Luke 10:2b. Lots of simple church people pray this prayer everyday at 10:02 in the morning. In our own community there is a chorus of cell phone reminders going off to remind people to stop and pray this prayer! I learnt about this powerful prayer tool from Tony and Felicity Dale. They ‘caught it’ from another friend of theirs; I have infected people with this Luke 10:2b ‘virus’ on 3 continents! There are now people, all over the world praying this little prayer every day.