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On our last podcast, we spoke to Frank Viola and discussed his vision for a New Testament model of church, which he referred to as organic or simple church.

So on this month's Nomad Extra, we thought we'd follow on that theme of organic church by speaking to someone who's actually involved in one to get some more insight into the practicalities of doing church in this way.

So it's a great pleasure to welcome Mark Cutliff,

who is part of a simple church in,

and it's Swansea, isn't it, Mark?

Yeah, yeah, that's right, just as I say, Swansea.

Excellent. Welcome to the show, Mark.

Thanks for joining us.

Oh, thank you. It's a pleasure.

I was wondering if you could begin by explaining to us

your kind of journey from traditionally structured church to simple church.

Yeah, sure, sure.

Well, for us, it really sort of started around about six years ago now.

I was involved with a more traditionally structured church, a sort of new stream church.

And I felt like God has sort of given me a vision, really, to plant a new church.

So we stepped out of what we were doing and went about and hired a hall and put flyers

around and tried to get people involved with what we were doing.

I think I mentioned earlier, we even bought a PA system

when there was only about eight of us meeting in a tiny little building,

which was just a bit crazy, really.

But we very quickly attracted a number of people

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