Future Church
Welcome to FUTURE CHURCH with Anthony Delaney. God is doing a new thing - let’s get involved! I’m here to drive you round the bend (so we can see what’s coming).Each episode I unpack and showcase the future thinking of practical and prophetic voices in church, leadership and culture to help us perceive and respond to the new reformation revolution we are living through.
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
My friend Patrick O’Connell is the Global Director of NewThing, the network which I and Ivy Church are privileged to be part of, which exists to partner with movement makers and catalyse reproducing disciples, leaders, churches, networks, and movements.
Here he tells the story of how he came to faith, having met his wife in a punk rock mosh pit, joined the army, he went into business and while finally successful in worldly terms when he finally after 4 years accepted an invitation to go to church and everything changed!
He went from church goer to church planter, now serving thousands of church leaders and planters worldwide through NewThing’s dream - to see a church planted in every community around the world.
We discuss, among other things -
How might we help connect people far from God so they don’t just learn to cope, but receive hope.
What army life taught him about teams and sacrifice, and how that applies to the army of God and ministry ‘in the blood and the mud.’
How do we collaborate and form networks that are all about the Kingdom not our own castles?
The 4 Rs of NewThing
Relationships
Doing this alone is next to impossible, so we have intentional rhythms for being friends on mission together.
Reproducing
From disciples to leaders, churches to networks, creating and catalysing reproducing movements is at the centre of everything we do at NewThing.
Residency
This is what NewThing churches call our commitment to train and invest in the next generation of church planters, creating apprenticing pipelines for future church planting.
Resources
Networks pool their people, pennies, and platform to plant church planting churches together.
Come along to launchcatalyst.org and connect in person with NewThing so you’re not isolated and frustrated but encouraged and celebrated for all you’re doing for the Kingdom!
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
I met Julian Richards at a wedding recently, and as we chatted immediately he felt like 'a brother from the same Father...'!
He's the National Leader for New Wine Cymru (that means Wales in case anyone wonders), working together with over 700 other churches to collectively and collaboratively grow to help leaders develop healthy churches to win the nation.
With his wife Sarah he leads Cornerstone, a high impact church they founded in 1991 Swansea with a handful of young people in one of the most deprived areas of the city.
Today this thriving church is known across Wales for its community work, people finding Christ regularly and many physical healings. In 2014 they opened Venue2, a former supermarket, as a second Cornerstone site, which is where I met him.
Julian co-founded Gweini (meaning ‘to serve’ in Welsh), representing Christian, faith-based community work to the Welsh Assembly Government and wider society.
He tells the story as we meet of how from very small beginnings but a commitment to missional growth and effectiveness, many other churches and ministries have been birthed, leaders equipped and local communities transformed through the power of Christ and his kingdom.
This is a story of miraculous provision and remarkable spiritual openness in our culture that they are seeing more than ever (3700 people prayed to receive Christ in 9 days), but Julian is convinced the answer for Wales (and everywhere else) is NOT for 'another Welsh Revival' dropped down from above, but by disciples faithfully serving, loving and winning their neighbours and nation for Christ.
We discuss;
How what you learn as a skint church planter can set you up for a life of faith and impact rather than having it all set up in advance.
What Bible college never taught you about faith.
The difference between optimism and faith.
Why we need courage as well as faith!
Why we need to change our model of mission and ministry.
New Wine Cymru - how it's similar and different to New Wine in England and elsewhere, as a non government collaborative model for effective mission.
Connect with Julian - https://newwinecymru.co.uk/about/whos-who
Or via:
https://www.cornerstonechurch.co.uk
Julian is going to join us at https://www.launchcatalyst.org and it's not too late for you and your friends and team to book in and join us too whether in the North or the South of England.
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
I met Chris Wickland last year when he came as one of the guest speakers at a leader's retreat. I’ll never forget his incredible story of how he went from witchcraft to Christ.
Having been aware of the supernatural realm and its realities more than most, Chris described seeing and hearing visions and dreams which have led to him publicly declaring major words regarding the church and the nations ahead of time.
These include the rise and fall of various political leaders, Church closures across the world (publicly declared April 2019) to humble the church, providing insight to governments re natural disasters, and predicting economic upheavals and collapse both present and to come;
However as a Pastor-Prophet Chris says he always wants to bring hope not fear, so God’s people can be ready!
As we talk I learn more about his story, his life (and deaths), hearing about how he was saved from a suicide attempt when as a new Christian he drove his car off a cliff, and how he has died and been resurrected (not just once, but twice!)
You don’t want to miss this one!
Chris and Tracey Wickland pastor the Living Word Church Network in Hampshire.
Read more about Chris and his more recent prophetic words here -https://www.heartpublications.co.uk/why-we-need-a-joseph-generation/
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Monday Sep 11, 2023
Can A Nation Be Changed? YES! Dr Jonathan Oloyede - National Day Of Prayer
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
An apostolic missionary to the UK, Jonathan came from Nigeria in 1991 to the UK for three weeks - when God told him he is here 'by divine design' - so he stayed!
Having planted many churches and movements including the Global and National days of prayer, filling stadiums and raising faith - he focuses on claiming the rejuvenation of the church to continue the story from the book of Acts in our day!
He is a deep well - so during our time as always I learned so much and I know you will too! Among other things we discuss what the gospel means and what it contains - going beyond cognitive to seeing miracles and full transformation.
How do we grow in faith and power?
What about excesses or character failings?
What does it mean to not only ask in prayer but to with authority?
Practical tools re fasting and focusing our churches in unity to mobilise and reach out and shine your light this Christmas.
Jonathan will be a keynote speaker at LAUNCHCATALYST.ORG Join us!
Connect with him and his ministry directly at ndopw.com
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Do You Want Miracles With Your Mocha? Thomas Christensen, Open Church, Copenhagen
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
I met today's guest when I overheard him in a coffee queue sharing in a very understated way how miracles started happening more and more, when he actually started praying for them! "I'd never seen a blind person see, but now it's happened quite a lot." I rather rudely interrupted - desperate to find out more, and if you are too you'll love to meet Thomas.
He will be joining us at LAUNCHCATALYST.ORG this year (Starts at the end of October into November don't miss it) but here we discuss issues such as:
Seeing the supernatural as a natural part of life
Praying for friends and people in our neighbourhood
How his church plant, due to start just as Covid kicked in, ended up making global news bringing hope instead of stalling or stopping.
How our theology might unintentionally rule out the power of God operating in our churches, and how to steward those times when the Spirit is moving.
Find out more and connect with Thomas at https://aabenkirkekbh.dk/english
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, KNOWING JESUS.
Well talk about a big vision! How can it become a reality?
Dr Rachel Jordan-Wolf will be joining us at this year’s LAUNCH (See launchcataylst.org for the best deal available for you and your team.
Rachel is executive director of HOPE Together in the UK, having worked closely with the initiative since 2010, when she was the Church of England’s National Mission and Evangelism Advisor, and this episode is FULL of encouragement that you may not be aware of, and doesn't tend to get spoken about anywhere near enough.
“I’m committed to evangelism being at the heart of the church,’ says Rachel, “Committed to mission and to the local church in villages, towns and cities, and committed to do this together across denominations and across ethnicities to make Jesus known with words and action. We are also committed to a new generation, engaging with Millennials and with digital culture as well.
You’ll hear how as well as being an expert on the stats and demographics from surveys she has commissioned we can have a great deal of hope for the future church.
Rachel as a passionate evangelist herself is seeing God move in exciting ways as she personally finds opportunities because people are way more ready to hear the good news of the gospel than most Christians are to pass it on!
This podcast serves to help you to do that, and help others to do so too - so please rate it, share and subscribe, and connect with Rachel in person at LAUNCH or at hopetogether.org.uk and please check out talkingjesus.org to not only be encouraged but equipped!
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
#20 How To Avoid The Most Costly Leadership Error - William Vanderbloemen
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
William Vanderbloemen is a former pastor who went into the business world and became on to become an entrepreneur as CEO/ founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, an international executive search company that has helped thousands of churches, ministries, schools, universities and faith-based organisations build great cultures with great people in the right place.
He will be sharing with us at LAUNCH again this autumn (North and South) join us - launchcatalyst.org
I love and highly recommend his book Culture Wins and can't wait to get my advance copy of Be The Unicorn which he mentions here, taking the data of 30,000 interviews to ask what do the very best candidates have in common and how can we learn them?
Here we discuss questions including -
Isn't it unspiritual to treat church hires like the business world does? (Maybe we should go back to drawing straws like they did in Acts?)
Why the church is too important to God for us to keep messing this up!
How a new leader coming into the Body is like a heart transplant
How to create an irresistible workplace
What is culture - really?
What makes a place healthy or toxic?
What's 'you're kind of crazy' and how defining that helps with attracting and retaining team.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Oscar is Executive Leader of Deliverance Church International in Kenya which meets in 4 locations currently under that name but because since its inception in 1984 their vision's founding scriptures in Matt. 28:19 and Gen. 1:22) have led them to not only grow to 10,000 in attendance there but also planting 2000 churches across the nation and surrounding nations.
He is an author and serves on the board of Movement Collective with Alan Hirsch and Rich Robinson.
The conversation here asks some hard questions for every leader and Christian believer because as Oscar says, 'We can't reimagine Church without asking God how he wants to transform us!'
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Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
#18 Why Do Wonders Ever Cease? Miracles now for a supernatural Church. Jonathan Conrathe
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
"Three wheelchairs were left on the streets of Leicester, people healed and saved, wonderful things happening! We are at the verge of a great move of God that is more out there than what is with in the four walls of our church… We have found a 30 to 40% increase of people wanting to know about Jesus!”
Are we seeing the end of the powerless church - while at the same time the Lord is raising up a new move, doing extraordinary things through ordinary people?
Join this thrilling conversation with Jonathan Conrathe, Founder and Director of Mission24, an inter-denominational ministry to equip the Church and reach the world for Christ. The Lord has used the ministry to see over 264,500 people come to Christ over the last 32 years in 54 countries, while equipping 1000’s of believers to minister the Gospel ‘with signs following.’
Are such ‘signs and wonders’ really for today?
Should we expect to see miracles? Are there ‘qualifications’ for that?
3 levels of FAITH.
Is healing really for today?
3 components of prayer for healing.
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
#17. The Church(es) Of Tomorrow - John McGinley
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
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Over 16,000 downloads in, post sabbatical Anthony is more excited than ever about this podcast and it helps greatly if you review us and share with others please.
Today (after he actually forgets the name of his own podcast) Anthony interviews Rev John McGinley, leader of Myriad, a ministry with the tremendous vision of seeing 10,000 new living churches planted and new leaders raised up and trained to reach millions of people in the UK.
From working at Harrods to being ordained in the CofE and leading various churches, John brings a wealth of wisdom and experience to this exciting conversation which wrestles with the principles, priorities, problems and possibilities faced by The Church Of Tomorrow (a book Anthony recommends 100%)
Quote from the book "So many of the Church's ways reflect the world's ways of leading organisations rather than being the Spirit-filled Body of Christ... We need a fresh understanding of the Church!"
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