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Boldy Bi-vocational?

James M Powell, Boldly Bi–Vocational (Christian Focus, 2025) is setting out a vision for bi-vocational church leadership and church planting which is not ‘of necessity’,

One Assembly?

Jonathan Leeman’s One Assembly: Rethinking the Multisite & Multiservice Church Models could equally be subtitled: ‘Rebuking the Multisite & Multiservice Church Models’. He doesn’t pull

London vibe shift?

A lot of people are talking about the possible dawning of a new age of opportunity and openness to the gospel. It does seem, anecdotally,

Future London

Ian Goldin & Tom Lee-Devlin, Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won Or Lost Together, Bloomsbury, 2023. This is not a review

5 streams of joy for the Christian Leader

The following is an abbreviated and edited version of Jonny Burgess’ essay for the Union MTh Spiritual Formation module. ——————————————— Christian leader, how is

UMP Lite Review

Guy Troop, elder at New Life Church Catford, was part of the last UMP Lite cohort. We wanted to hear his experience of the course.

A Church Attuned to Affections

The LCPA is pleased to be linked to a Crosslands Seminary tutor group. The following is an edited excerpt shared, with permission, from an essay

Am I answering the questions people are actually asking?

People usually love Fridays. For a few years, I loved Mondays. I loved them because Monday evenings I went to the seminary, back in São

Harder than it looks: 4 lessons from the first 3 years

The LCPA is based in London and our training is largely focused on the London context but we’re increasingly wanting to serve planters further afield

Progressing as preachers in the midst of planting

I have never planted a church, been involved in a church plant or had any overwhelming desire to plot that particular course in ministry. However,

Because Hell is real, we work together as a matter of urgency

Neil Powell addressed the Planting Collective conference in May 2019 and this was his final point of a weighty message:

The dangers of over and under contextualisation

Zim Okoli brings research on the history of the Nigerian church to bear on the issue of contextualisation. —————- “To over-contextualize… means you can make

The rise of Asia and Africa and why that matters to church planting in London

David Kim of London City Mission (also working in an ambassadorial role for Co-Mission) shares some of his research showing why any strategy for church

Church planting as Great Commission obedience

Zim Okoli argues that planting churches is absolutely central to obeying the great commission. ———– Now let me be clear. I’m not saying church planting is

We need more training on launching lifeboats

Richard Coekin, executive director of the Co-Mission church planting network compares the needs of London with the lessons learnt in the North Atlantic over a