Nov 14, 2019 | Inspiring Discipleship
“If you cut me in half you’ll find ‘Baptist’ written through me.” What a silly statement! I think if you cut me in half you’ll find a mess! However, if I was a stick of rock, I hope that you would find ‘mission’ written inside me. It’s important to know what your...
Sep 9, 2019 | Empowering Leadership
The is the third article of eight that reflect on the past 25 years of ministry in my attempt to be a missional leader. The first article considered the motivation of a missional leader (Take a Look in the Mirror) and the second was about trying to gain a good...
Jul 5, 2019 | Igniting Mission
This is the 2nd article of 8 which reflect back over the last 25 years of my ministry and asks what lessons I have learnt over this period of time about leading a church in mission. The first article, entitled ‘Take a Look in the Mirror’, considered the motivation of...
May 16, 2019 | Empowering Leadership
About six months ago while reflecting with my mentor he suggested that I began to write down some of the lessons I had learnt about my experience of missional leadership. He encouraged me to put down on paper some of the mistakes, the successes and some of the reasons...
Oct 1, 2018 | Igniting Mission
As a local church minister Christmas haunted me. Not because I don’t like Christmas, I do, but because it is one of the most strategic missional opportunities in the year and at the same time one of the most stressful. I would dread the moment when that ‘well...
