God’s Way of Releasing Leaders

by | Oct 15, 2007 | Cell Church Ministry

Sometimes our training methods get in the way of spontaneous expansion. That is, we depend too much on education and ultimately don’t release people for ministry. We tend to think that a person must be 100% equipped, but often we equip the zeal and life out of...

The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church

by | Oct 12, 2007 | Cell Church Ministry

I was in one famous cell church that back in 1996 rejoiced in the fact that they couldn’t control what was happening in their midst. The Holy Spirit was moving so mightily that I was told that even if they attempted to write it down into a manual, the Holy...

God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways

by | Oct 10, 2007 | Cell Church Ministry

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...

Making Yourself Dispensable

by | Oct 8, 2007 | Cell Church Ministry

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

by | Oct 5, 2007 | Cell Church Ministry

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...