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This photo above is three and a half years old. It’s a picture of our son, Rory John Elijah being delivered by C-section. It’s a picture of giving birth to something new. It’s bloody, messy, painful and awesome.
This photo above is also three and a half years old. It’s Rory all cleaned up. It’s a picture of something new. New things are clean, fresh, unspoilt and pure.
There is a great difference between new things and giving birth to new things. Many of us want to enjoy new things, but few are willing to give birth to new things. Many enjoy holding and cuddling babies, few want to go through labor.
Christians are those who are ushering in the Kingdom. It’s more than simply observing it happen. We believe, pray, work, labor, urge, encourage, risk and lay down our lives. Of course, everything we do is totally secondary to the real work of ushering in the Kingdom that has already been accomplished by Christ’s death and resurrection, but that’s not to say we don’t have a responsive responsibility.
In 2012 I’m looking forward to seeing more of the Kingdom come to bear upon our corner of the world in Singapore. I don’t just want to enjoy the newness, I want to help usher it in.
Singapore, South East Asia
Since I had been about 19 years of age I knew that I would be in full time ministry in some shape or form, and I thought that there was a strong likelihood that I would plant a church at some stage. From the moment of coming full time as an elder at New Covenant Church Bryanston in 2004 we knew that we would plant or lead a church somewhere within about 5 – 7 years.
As time drew on Tarryn and I started to talk and pray more about where it was that God would lead us. We loved South Africa Read the rest of this entry »
The local church that I was a part of for nearly 20 years (before we were sent to plant RHC) had a strong focus on church planting and ‘making disciples of all nations’ through this means. Over the 30 years that the church has been in existence, it has sent dozens of it’s pastors around the world to plant churches. Many have asked how it has been possible to raise up so many leaders who can church plant.
The church believes that people should be trained for ministry in the local church. Of all the people who planted, I don’t think one ever went to seminary. That is not to say that seminary isn’t good, but that we had a belief that the best place for people to be trained in ministry was on the job in a real local church. (It obviously is advantageous to ensure that people are doing some kind of theological training while they are serving in the local church).
New Covenant Church Bryanston
When someone was earmarked for ministry, they were normally exposed to a number of different of areas in the life of the local church. Read the rest of this entry »
