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.
“We Don't Want Your Baton”: Rethinking How We Release Workers & Leaders for Urban Mission
How can we best serve across contexts and between generations?
Here are three powerful principles that are catalytic and collaborative.
What's Your Mission Assignment? 17 Questions to Help You Discern
We’re surrounded by infinite possibilities to join in what God is doing. So what is that unique assignment that God has given us for this season?
Here are some questions that will give you greater clarity as you discern.
Who Is Qualified? An Ordinary Person's Guide To Kingdom Impact
God has an army. The army is not made up of pastors, professors or theologians, but it is filled with ordinary people … like every single one of us.
Northern Lights: 9 Movement Lessons from a Finnish Network
"That might work in African or Asian villages, but it can't happen here."
Yet in Finland, one of Europe's most secular and individualistic nations, a different story is emerging.
Missional Leadership that Reshapes the City: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
How do you lead in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environment like a city? It is not easy to lead in complex urban environments. Bottom-up leadership is a solution that multiplies our impact.
3 Essential Elements for ‘Success’ in Urban Mission
Practical Urban Mission - Part 1
God is at work, people are dissatisfied with the brokenness they see and experience, but the vast majority of residents in our cities are not responding to Jesus' Good News. There is a disconnect here. How can we, as urban harvest workers, be more effective at connecting the dots?
Are You Doing Urban Mission? Here Are 3 Important Questions To Consider
We previously looked at how population growth and technology have increased the complexity of our cities.
These changes have important implications for urban ministry. These implications confront us with pressing questions that must be addressed if we want to see God’s vision for our cities fulfilled. We will look at three of them here.