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Archive for the ‘Missional Living’ Category
Four Reminders For Church Planters & Pastors
Posted: May 31, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: church planters, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Pastors, Sojourn
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Help! I Want to Plant a Church But My Wife’s Not So Keen!
Posted: May 30, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, Websites, Women and WivesTags: church planter's wives, church planters, church planting, Domestic Kingdom, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, The church planting spouse
This has become something of an ‘issue’ for many men I have known in the last 5 years. I don’t know if it is because we work in a housing scheme or if the problem is more widespread. In my 13 years in the ministry I can say without doubt that one of the biggest [...]
10 Tips for New Church Planters
Posted: May 23, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: church planting, leadership, Leadership training, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor
1. Make sure that your personal walk with Jesus is firing on all cylinders. Take the time each day to be with God in His Word, meditate on what the Spirit is saying to you and pray that He would fill you and keep you in step with His will for your life. 2. Remember [...]
Building a Gospel Centred Community
Posted: May 11, 2012 by conand17 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Tarquin SyndromeTags: Andy Constable, community, Eugene Peterson, evangelism, fellowship, Gospel, Mez McConnell, preaching, Tim Keller
by Andy Constable I am very privileged to work in an environment that is gospel focused. I came onto the Niddrie team 2 years ago and one of the reasons for doing so was because Mez’s vision was and is to bring the gospel to bear in his life, the life of the church and [...]
T4G Conference 2012: Missionary Pastors Grow Missionary Churches (7)
Posted: May 10, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, T4G Conference 2012, WebsitesTags: David Platt, evangelism, Mez McConnell, missions, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Pastors, T4G
Speaker: David Platt Text: Revelation 5 Title: Divine Sovereignty: The Fuel of Death-Defying Missions Find the sermon online here. For those of you who have been following these posts, this is my final one. The more beady eyed among you will know that there were 9 main sessions at T4G but I only took notes [...]
What is the one thing Pastors should be competent to do?
Posted: May 6, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: Biblical counselling, Bill Kynes, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, NiddriePastor, Pastoral Ministry, The gospel, the gospel coalition
I am a physician with but one medicine to prescribe, and that is the gospel of Christ. It may need to be applied in various ways, various aspects of it may need to receive the right emphasis, and it may need to be administered in the right form. But only the gospel of Jesus Christ [...]
Transforming Peoples Lives in Inner City Belfast!
Posted: May 5, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Evangelism, Missional Living, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, VideoTags: Belfast, church planters, Church renewal, Clifton Park Avenue Baptist Church, Jonny Pollock, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor
Check out the work of Jonathan Pollock in a difficult part of inner Belfast. Follow him @jonnypollock. If you know of any other church planters/pastors working in inner city areas (any country, but particularly Europe) where we could highlight their work, show a film (if they’ve produced one) and pray for them, please email me: [...]
Five Tips on How to Survive Long Term in Housing Schemes
Posted: May 4, 2012 by conand17 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Tarquin SyndromeTags: Andy Constable, leadership, Mez McConnell, ministry, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, survive
By Andy Constable It can be tough working and living in a scheme at the same time. There are the ‘normal’ ministerial pressures like preparing sermons, counselling and driving the vision of the church forward. And then there are the added stresses like reaching out to the people on the scheme and discipling new converts [...]
