Recommended Books
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This is the book that started it all for us. Coming from over 30 years of institutional "churched" background, there were a whole lot of questions and issues we were grappling with - water baptism, communion, structure, doctrine, finances, etc. The insights from Scripture and experience shared in this book helped tremendously.
Church 3.0 was a catalyst in our journey. |
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Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is that attendance at church on Sundays does not necessarily transform lives...if we want to connect with young people and those who are not coming to church, we must go where people congregate. Cole shows readers how to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of God in the places where life happens and where culture is formed - restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, parks, locker rooms,and neighborhoods. "Organic Church" offers a hands-on guide for demystifying this new model of church and shows the practical aspects of implementing it.
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In the early church, disciples of Jesus embraced five core spiritual gifts ― apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers. The world was set on fire as a result. Over the past two thousand years, however, some of these gifts have been neglected or set aside, and we’ve forgotten what we’re capable of.
This is a great book on how the dynamics of a fivefold team has helped release organic, missional movements in the last 20 years. If you're interested in how the 5-fold can and have been practically operating together, Primal Fire is a great book co-authored by practitioners who have walked the talk for the last 20 years and brought tremendous impact that is far more real than the religious hype of many flashy ministries. |
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Do you feel that something is amiss with the way you play church? Feel tired, burnt-out or disillusioned by how church ministry seems more like running a corporation?
I was in that boat. Serving in "full-time ministry" at a megachurch and running programs week after week to build the church's brand name and grow attendance. Until I started reading the Bible without the blinders of "Churchianity" taught in many Bible schools and churches. The book of Acts and the Epistles clearly show how New Testament life as a disciple of Jesus in the community of the body of Christ looks like and it is vastly different from modern-day Christianity. In fact, church and Christianity today look more like the very Pharisaical system that Jesus spoke against and came to deliver us from! Read Pagan Christianity for a well-organized comparison of Biblical vs current paganistic church practices. It is so compelling that I could not put it down, read it all at one go through the night and was re-reading and taking notes for months after. Let the truth set you free! |
Recommended Tools
Click and hold on picture to save it as a picture to be shared through any social platforms. This comes in handy when it is saved as a picture on your mobile. for use on the go!
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How to Use the "7 Signs in John" tool in a Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) John 20:30-31 (NKJV) "And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name."
This tool is particularly helpful to pre-believers who are interested in the Bible and interested in knowing who Jesus is. Through facilitating the reading of 7 Signs, and asking these questions, it is designed to help them discover Jesus as God. They are also framed in such a way to encourage SIMPLE OBEDIENCE and also SIMPLE SHARING by a new/pre-believer to others in his/her community. In this way this tool seeks to: 1) be personally applicable (and does not end up as a bible study that focuses on just giving information/head knowledge) 2) be simply sharable by a seeker to his/her community. Get one person in the group to facilitate ie. ask questions, a story in the passages, each time you meet. A different person can facilitate the DBS each time. Encourage the pre-believer/ seeker to likewise facilitate the study with others who are open and seeking. |
Discovery Learning Journey (DLJ)
- Trainers', Facilitators' & Learners' Booklet Guide to Reading the Letters of Paul (written by: Karen Gan)
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UPDATED: 4th edition Apr 2023 **Discovery Learning Journey (DLJ) .
DLJ is a challenge designed for those who desire to be detoxed from religion and “church-ianity” to being free in Christ to live and serve God's kingdom purposes as Jesus' disciples. For years and centuries, many have been taught, dictated by "experts", pastors, bible schools on what the Bible says. This has produced sermon-listening church-goers, loyal fans of a church brand or celebrity pastor-teacher, more denominationalism splitting hairs over doctrines and greater division in the body of Christ rather than disciples who know Jesus, follow Him and walk with God who are empowered and taught by the Holy Spirit, reproducing other disciples the like. This DLJ approach to reading the NT and the letters of Paul to churches helps one to discover for themselves and gain a better and healthier perspective of what the letters actually say. The DLJ can be used to launch small discipleship communities on a discovery journey together, and in turn can be replicated to launch new communities. Testimonies from 2 church leaders: "This is exciting, It made me want to read the rest of the NT again!" "I am not exaggerating here, but I had a super, duper fantastic time with a few others today! The Holy Spirit showed up through teleconference , how cool is that? We will have more sessions to come!!! :)" Recent testimony of a 24 yo 2nd generation Christian who has been a church-goer all her life, who started on 1 DLJ challenge to read 1Corinthians in 1 single seating in a different version from the usual: "I really enjoyed reading the Bible with this approach. I actually find it easier to read than the usual way of reading it in verses and chapters. I have also discovered many things in Paul's letter than all the other times!" |
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Teaching on Water Baptism
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This is a comprehensive teaching on water baptism, seeking to teach disciples to obey Christ in the most basic of commands - water baptism. Water baptism has long been a forgotten command left to only clergy to perform. Please click link to download this PDF file. We hope this empowers you and your spiritual community to make disciples and baptise them in water into the nature of God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit.
More questions on the truth and fallacies of water baptism? Please go to Blog/Short Articles page on Making and Multiplying Disciples Part 5 - water baptism. |
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