One of the common questions we are asked regarding house churches is, How do you practice leadership? Team member David Legge walks through a Biblical understanding of leadership as it pertains to a house church. You’ll hear Kathryn and David discuss the five-fold leadership outlined in Ephesians 4, and a weave of leadership that doesn’t look as hierarchical, but still has Bibical order. You’ll hear about how elders and house church leaders likely worked in the cities where the earlychurch began, and how we might model ourselves in similar ways. We also talk about women in ministry, looking at examples in Scripture of how Jesus built his church. In a subject that can feel overwhelming or even controversial, we hope that you might find helpful ways to look at church leadership in your own context through this discussion.
David Vincent is the prayer coordinator for Myriad, a ministry that inspires and serves everyday people to form new church communities in England. David shares how his career as a geography teacher set the stage for prayer walks he's coordinated in London. You'll hear stories about prayer walks in London and be encouraged to engage in neighborhood prayer walks where you live.
In this episode, Jack Meckfessel shares about how to love your neighbors well with the Loving Your Neighbors Tool. Tune in to get some great ideas of what you can do in your own neighborhood.
In this episode, David Legge answers the question of how to celebrate baptisms if you are part of a house church or other community. He discusses the significance of this important church practice.
Hear David Legge talk about how to celebrate communion as ordinary people - in a house church or another community. Hear how he explains the significance of what communion is really about.
Kathryn is in NYC with Laura Leigh, reliving her dream from four years ago that has recently become a reality.
After her Broadway debut came to a sharp halt during Covid, God gave Laura Leigh a dream to start building an innovative community for women in the city. At the center of it all would be a home where 12 young creatives could live together and be discipled.
Hear Laura Leigh’s heart behind the dream, be inspired by her resilient faith, and be encouraged in God’s big work in this small community in NYC. https://risecollective.nyc
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Tony shares about a life of deeply investing into small groups of people, over many years and in many contexts. Join our conversation around how to build community in non-traditional spaces, with people God brings in our paths. Tony tells us about his business friends and gym friends and other groups he regularly invests in, to inspire us toward innovation in our ways of discipleship.
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We are taking a break from our season on Kingdom Innovation bc it’s election week in the US, and we think this word from our teammate David Legge is one that is worth hearing, no matter what country you are listening from.
As our house churches were gathering here in Little Rock this week, David Legge was in town with us, and we asked him to share a message with us, that he titled, “An Other Worldly Kingdom.”
David had given a similar message in Ireland recently at the New Wine Conference, but it was interesting how much of the perspective he gave to the crowd there applies to us in the United States as well, as other countries, when it comes to the ways we can accidentally start finding our hope in a political Kingdom, a Kingdom that is less than the spiritual Kingdom God has invited us into.
JR Woodward, author and national director of V3 church planting movement, shares how freedom and innovation enables movement. He tells us how a story of an ordinary woman innovating for the Kingdom in a retirement home, and he challenges us to all create more room for gifts of innovation to flourish in our communities, even in small ways.
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Rob Wegner, Director of the Kansas City Underground movement of microchurches, shares with us the surprises he has had in his journey of doing ministry differently over the past seven years. Rob explains how decentralization can promote innovation, and what we can do when the best ideas come from outside of us.
www.kcunderground.org / https://starfishinitiatives.com
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While innovation is a key value in business and education, the church has been hesitant to innovate. In this episode, Kathryn and Jennie discuss why these hesitations exist, and how the church might apply innovative thinking to help it flourish. Jennie explains that the next generation is hungering for revival and awakening, and she talks about Gather 25, her greatest Kingdom innovation yet.
Learn more at www.gather25.com
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