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Many simple church networks in Europe are engaged in cross-cultural church planting. But how do you do that? How do you present Jesus in another culture? David L. Watson shares that it is important not to impose your cultural views of Jesus and the church on the people you are reaching. Doctrines are not wrong, but only fit in a specific culture. In cross-cultural ministry we need to learn the people to obey Christ within their specific culture and context. Instead of providing all the answers when reading the bible, we ask questions so they can discover how to obey Jesus in their culture. E.g. God commands us to pray, but how do you want to pray? Or, how would you teach God’s Word? How would you lead a church? Read on to learn more.

Jesus founded a missionary movement that now spans the globe. This study guide is about helping you to understand what this means and how to participate in what God is already doing. Each study follows the main themes of the book by Steve Addison: Movements that Change the World. The study guide focusses on how the principles in the book are revealed in the ministry of Jesus and the early church. Use this study guide in pairs or in groups to learn to start and fuel a movement for Christ. Learn about the importance of a movement, characteristics of it, how to proclaim Gods story and your story, how to find a person of peace and many more. The guide helps you to obey Christ!

We tried to identify the best simple church English resource websites that we know of about simple church and church planting movements. All of these websites are active information hubs with practical resources on how to plant new simple churches and facilitate church planting movements. A few of the websites are blogs, others are real resource websites.

Children are supposed to be educated in a family setting according to the bible. It is vital for us to have children in our midst to learn from them and help them grow instead of people they hardly know. But how do we educate them in a simple church setting? Dan shares seven practical insights.

In 1 Timothy 2 Paul describes a difficult passage about women. Are women allowed not to teach and or to speak? Felicity shares insight on this difficult passage from David Hamilton. Read on how God wants women to teach and bring the Kingdom of God. 

Women are not always allowed to develop their full potential in the church. Felicity describes how it was in the days of Jesus where women did have a prominent place. Jesus, despite the culture of that day, shared his hear with e.g. Mary and the woman at the well (John 4). The simple church movement in Europe is challenged to allow more and more space for women, so that the body of Christ can operate in full power and strength.

Most of the money in the bible went to support and send out missionaries and to the poor and widows (e.g. Luke 10, 1 Cor 9, 1 Tim 5). Steve Lyzenga investigated how much of time (workers) and money (wealth) was used by simple church people to fulfill the Great Commission. He found that due to the low operational and building costs the majority of the simple church people gave more of their time and their money to fulfill the Great Commission than in a traditional church setting. This means they have more impact on fulfulling the great commission than the traditional churches.

Jesus said: “Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant.” (Mat 20:26b). Out of service we will become a leader. Floyd describes in this articles the “Ten Commandments” of servant leader.

What are the stages in the journey from traditional church to simple church? Roger describes seven: 1) Letting go of old paradigms of church life, 2) Exploring the NT gatherings, 3) Re-boot to Jesus, 4) A new missional heart and longing, 5) Fresh discovery of our own passions, spiritual gifts and calling, 6) Integration of an organic lifestyle with gatherings that support it, 7) Our Kingdom influence spreads and becomes even reproductive. In which stage are you?

Why do most children of ministers abandon Christ or do have lukewarm faith? The main reason is that most ministers give ministry a higher priority than God and their family. In winning our children and our generation for Christ it is of vital importantance to first spend time with God (for Him and not for ministry) and then with our family and friends. Ministry comes after that. Read on and be inspired by this wonderful message.