Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.

We've got a host of interesting guests for this year, and to prove it, we're kicking things off with an interview with organic church planter Neil Cole so you've got all of this completely unaffected

by adverse weather conditions delivered first class straight to your computer so it's a great pleasure to have the opportunity to speak to Neil Cole today.

Neil, thanks so much for joining us, especially at the end of a very busy teaching schedule.

You've been up in Edinburgh, is that right?

Yes.

And then you've spent the last day and a half in Nottingham as well.

Yes, and I was in Sheffield and Leeds as well.

Wow. Are you looking good on it?

Thanks.

So to begin with, I'm sure there'll be people out there that perhaps haven't heard of you

and aren't aware of the ministry you're involved in.

So could you tell us a little bit about yourself and what it is you do?

Sure. We started a ministry called Church Multiplication Associates.

That is a church multiplication is the core of it.

And we learned through trial, error, more error than anything,

what really does multiply disciples, leaders, churches, and movements.

So our ministry purpose statement is to reproduce healthy disciples, leaders, churches, and movements. So our ministry purpose statement is to reproduce healthy

disciples, leaders, churches, and movements from the place where we're planted to the ends of the

earth. And we've begun doing organic church planting because we realize the only way things grow

is from the inside out with good DNA. So we plant that DNA and disciples, as they grow and multiply,

then churches will, leaders will emerge and then churches.

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