Urban Discipleship Articles
Practical, field-tested thinking and experience on discipleship, mission, and what it means to partner with God in the city. Written by practitioners from across the global learning community focussed on the unique challenges of the urban harvest field.
Field Notes From Asian Cities: Patterns in the Harvest
The same Spirit, working across wildly different cities. Practitioners from East Asia to Central Asia keep reporting the same patterns — brokenness opening doors, simple obedience producing fruit, youth moving without waiting for permission.
These aren't coincidences, and they aren't models to copy. They're fingerprints. What does it mean when God's methods look this consistent across such diverse contexts?
What If You Don't Need to Start Something New?
I need to tell you about something that shook me during our last gathering in our city.
What shook me was not someone sharing a revolutionary new strategy, but because I finally saw what was already there.
More Indian Insights - 5 Walls That Block God's Peace in Cities
In today’s post we’ll take a look at some of the key urban challenges Indian movement leaders identified - the invisible "walls" they believe prevent the fullness of God's peace touching and blessing their cities.
Indian Insights - How Does DMM Need To Change In Cities?
Books like 'Bhojpuri Breakthrough’ record the successes of these leaders and others like them.
The Indian leader of this movement reported being challenged recently while he was praying… now he and his team are looking at the cities in his country with fresh eyes.
What are they noticing about the differences and similarities between rural areas and cities?