Recovering Evangelism in 2022 (Español Abajo)

By Keith Bates, founding pastor of New Life Church in Narrabri, Australia, www.new-life.org.au It is so easy to forget that we are called to make disciples. This is especially true when the pandemic has forced many of us into survival mode for much of the last two...

Restoration in 2022 (Español Abajo)

By Keith Bates, founding pastor of New Life Church in Narrabri, Australia, www.new-life.org.au Cell church is, as we all know, more than getting everybody into small groups. You have to train leaders, coach them, encourage your leaders, organise an equipping track,...

Cell Ministry in the 21st Century

By Keith Bates, founding pastor of New Life Church in Narrabri, Australia, www.new-life.org.au Not long after we moved to Narrabri, a town of 7000 people in the wheat belt of Eastern Australia, the Lord started talking to us about a “new thing” that He wanted to do...

Cells and The New Testament

By Keith Bates, founding pastor of New Life Church in Narrabri, Australia, www.new-life.org.au I love the fact that Cell Church is not a recent invention, but has always been at the heart of the way God’s people have discipled one another. The Great Commission that...

Cell Networking

by Keith Bates, www.new-life.org.au; www.facebook.com/groups/cellchurches I pastor a non-denominational church in a small town that is a long way from a large city. Of the nine congregations in my town, ours is the only one consciously using the cell church model. It...