Future Church

The Surprising Truth About What Most People Think About Jesus & The Church - Dr Rachel Jordan-Wolf

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! 
 

#20 How To Avoid The Most Costly Leadership Error - William Vanderbloemen

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. 
 

Moving A Church Of 10,000 Attenders Into Disciples Who Make Disciples - Oscar Amisi

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!' 
Remember you can join us in person this year at an event that has been so transformative for many over the last 7 years - Go to launch catalyst.org for the best deals for you and your team. 
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#18 Why Do Wonders Ever Cease? Miracles now for a supernatural Church. Jonathan Conrathe

"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. 

#17. The Church(es) Of Tomorrow - John McGinley

We are back!
Subscribe so you don't miss any of the others we've got in the pipeline.
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!" 
Let us know what you think of the podcast please! 
Join us if you can live at launch catalyst.org 

#16 RE:PLANT Conversation - Dr James Emery White on How to Burn Bright without Burning Out

This conversation with Dr James Emery White covers a large number of topics, drawing lessons from 40 years of leadership, discussing CS Lewis vs Tolkien and the dangers of the ‘lotus position’.
Do join us at LAUNCH RE:PLANT on October 3rd and 4th where Dr White will be one of our speakers. Enjoy this great conversation and see more from Jim on the Church and Culture blog and podcast.

#15 RE:PLANT Conversation - Part 2 - Keri Ladouceur on Polarisation, Working Together and Supporting Women in Leadership

This is Part 2 of a conversation with Keri Ladouceur, a pastor in Naperville, Illinois and founder and lead coach at New Ground Network. The conversation Anthony had with Keri touched on so many important points and is therefore split into two episodes. Following Part 1 this conversation continues to go into great resources for culture formation, things people misunderstand about Keri and what working together and supporting women in leadership looks like. 
These two conversations go into great detail on points that we're hoping to cover at LAUNCH RE:PLANTthis October 3rd and 4th - register to join today and use the Promo Code 'FUTURECHURCH' for an extra 10% discount - https://launchcatalyst.org/
 
More About Keri - 
Keri Ladouceur serves a pastor in Naperville, Illinois and is founder and lead coach at New Ground Network. As a coach, Keri partners with pastors and denominational leaders, co-conspiring with them to seize their unique vision, develop their team's capacity, and mobilize people for mission.
Her coaching was shaped as a former marketplace executive and senior leader at Willow Creek. She has more than sixteen years experience coaching pastors, non-profit, and marketplace leaders.
The thrill of launching more than 90 missional communities and having a front row seat to the missional engagement of 100s of churches is exhilarating to her.
She is an associate with the exponential team- teaching at conferences and creating leadership resources- most recently her book "Together as a Team". Her newest project is a podcast called A Third Way exploring the tension of following Jesus and the church's invitation to pace culture.
She recently served as chair of the board for a global peace-making organization, and is wrapping up thesis writing for a Master of Arts in New Testament from Northern Seminary.

#14 RE:PLANT Conversation - Part 1 - Keri Ladouceur on Goodness Cultures, Abuses of Power and How Transformation Happens

This is Part 1 of a conversation with Keri Ladouceur, a pastor in Naperville, Illinois and founder and lead coach at New Ground Network. The conversation Anthony had with Keri touched on so many important points and is therefore split into two episodes. In this first episode they speak about what it means to establish goodness cultures that truly mean that what we are multiplying is the the culture of the Kingdom. 
In this first part of the conversation, Anthony and Keri also speak about abuses of power, the need for persuasive arguments for people but equally the need to create safe spaces for people to wrestle with their faith and contend with their own questions and meet with the Holy Spirit as they enter and grow in their relationship with Jesus.
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast for Part 2 of this conversation also coming next week where they dig deeper into these points and much more.
Keri will be speaking at LAUNCH RE:PLANT in Wigan on October 3rd and 4th this year. Don't miss out on this event it will be BRILLIANT! Book in for you and your team today at discounted rates at launchcatalyst.org
 
More About Keri - 
Keri Ladouceur serves a pastor in Naperville, Illinois and is founder and lead coach at New Ground Network. As a coach, Keri partners with pastors and denominational leaders, co-conspiring with them to seize their unique vision, develop their team's capacity, and mobilize people for mission.
Her coaching was shaped as a former marketplace executive and senior leader at Willow Creek. She has more than sixteen years experience coaching pastors, non-profit, and marketplace leaders.
The thrill of launching more than 90 missional communities and having a front row seat to the missional engagement of 100s of churches is exhilarating to her.
She is an associate with the exponential team- teaching at conferences and creating leadership resources- most recently her book "Together as a Team". Her newest project is a podcast called A Third Way exploring the tension of following Jesus and the church's invitation to pace culture.
She recently served as chair of the board for a global peace-making organization, and is wrapping up thesis writing for a Master of Arts in New Testament from Northern Seminary.