Igniting Mission
Igniting Mission Articles and Resources
Not A Target
Do you ever feel like a failure when it comes to sharing your faith? That you really ‘should’ mention Jesus or prayer to every stranger you meet? And if you don’t, you have kind of… failed? That you ‘ought to’ mention Jesus more to your family members who don’t follow...
A Journey in Missional Leadership: Herding Cats
I love that saying, “It’s like herding cats!” It makes me smile and it reminds me of when I was a child going on church walks known as ‘rambles’. I think they must have been called ‘rambles’ because the title described the nature of the walk, i.e. you rambled (to walk...
What about the one?
I wonder how you measure a successful event. For many it's when 'lots of people attended', but how many did you get to know, really get to know, sit, listen, really spend time together, and connect with? There are a number of stories in the gospels where Jesus spends...
Mission: Only by Prayer
Intercessory prayer sometimes gets a bad press. People say things like, ‘It’s telling God what he already knows’ or ‘There’s no point if God is in control.’ But we are in a spiritual battle as we engage in God’s mission to a hurting and sometimes hostile world. We can...
Learning in the Mission of God
I was part of a conversation recently when someone said that a church had baptised five people soon after they’d worked through the Re:Imagine process. This clearly heightened the interest of everyone else in the room! Unfortunately, I felt as if I was the person with...
Stepping out into the Fog
‘Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Psalm 62:8 Life has thrown me a few curve balls and sometimes it’s hard to know what the next steps in God's mission should be. I get confused! Sometimes, I confess, it’s hard...
99 Year Old Prayer Warrior Ministers Using Her iPad
There are more than 11.9 million people aged 65 and over in the UK, with this figure projected to rise in the next 17 years to over 16 million. Of this group, 49 per cent say the television or their pet is their main company, with more than 1 million older people...
Where Will Revival Begin?
I am the pastor of a small urban church in the middle of one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the South West of England. Life expectancy here is ten years lower than other parts of the city I live in. 48% of children who arrive at the local primary school are...
A Journey in Missional Leadership: Take A Look Out Of The Window
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...
Collared: A Missiological Reflection
For Lent this year, I decided to wear a dog collar during ‘normal operating hours’. This decision had been building up for just a few weeks and had not come out of ‘no-where’, but it did open up the possibility of a shift in my understanding of local pastoral ministry...