God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways

One of the key failures, according to Allen, is that we try to educate people to think like ourselves. Roland Allen says: We educate our converts to think, as we, accustomed to a long-established and highly-organized church, naturally think, that none but duly...

Mixing It Up

I went fishing with a cell leader in my church family yesterday.  He and his wife have been leading a cell for five years or so.  In the last six years, he has started a family (they now have three children) and a business.  Needless to say, life has been full.  Their...

Making Yourself Dispensable

I’ve been trying to share nuggets of truth from the writings of Roland Allen. I hope you’re still with me! Sometimes we get in the way of Christ’s work. I often use the illustration in my seminars of a cell leader “getting sick on...

A Return to Simplicity

I believe that God is calling His church back to simplicity. We have a tendency to over complicate cell church ministry. Cell church ministry is simple. Paul practiced such simplicity when he planted churches in the first century.   We’ve been talking a lot...

It’s Application that Counts

By Steve Cordle   Recently my wife and I were blessed to be able to attend a marriage seminar sponsored by a national ministry. (If you haven’t gone to one, do yourself a favor and go; you deserve it!) For two and a half days we took in high-quality teaching...