dales roundtable

Since my brief trip out to Romania things have continued pretty busy. Last Friday we held a Roundtable event at CMS head office near Waterloo (Just up the road from the shooting at Stockwell). It was an opportunity for a number of practitioners and strategists to meet and hear from Tony & Felicity Dale. Most of those gathered share a common desire & vision to see a movement of church planting generated.

The Dales shared some of what is going on around the world and particularly in the US. George Barna now reckons there are around 1 million in the US meeting outside of the existing church structures. On the death of Bill Bright a large legacy was left to his ministry and it was decided to put it towards the planting of 5 million new home churches in order to see 1 billion new believers in the Kingdom.

After some story telling, which people particularly welcomed, we broke out into questions covering issues such as leadership, how effective mission (local & global) can be resourced through household churches, whether the 'model' they were reflecting could be transferred to any context (though it was recognised that we were discussing core values and understandings rather than specific models), how 'teaching' is delivered in these small contexts, and how reproducible forms of discipling are emerging.

It was a great time of connecting and dialogue; thanks CMS for hosting us so well.

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