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

Most of us assume a movement needs a congregation that keeps getting bigger and a leader sharp enough to win every argument. What if both are quietly getting in the way of the very thing we long to see?

This post looks squarely at the tension between size and multiplication, between expertise and ordinary experience, and asks what it costs to hand something away rather than hold it tight.

"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.