God’s heart is for viral discipleship in the world's cities

Many assume a movement needs two things: a congregation that keeps getting bigger, and a leader sharp enough to answer every question. What if both are getting in the way?

Drawing on years of seeing faith communities multiply across West Africa, Younoussa Djao asks what it would look like to measure fruit in generations rather than size, and to trust ordinary people’s stories over our best arguments.

"Are you a Christian?" In some parts of the world, that question comes within minutes, and the word carries a social identity many people want no part of.

When we speak of Jesus, what do our neighbours think they are being invited into? And what, honestly, holds our own groups together: the King, or the culture we have built around Him?

Many of us carry a sense of pressure in conversations with people who don't yet know God — to say the right thing, at the right moment, and get somewhere. But what if the invitation isn't ours to rush?

Theodore reflects on the shift from closing the deal to keeping company with the Word, and three questions that make room for it to do its work.