Pre-session content
Hopeful leadership
Listen to Perks (24 mins, handout):
Or read:
- Holding together restlessness and optimism (John Piper, 3 mins)
The Word
2 Corinthians 10
The Church Plant
Planting Proposal: Jonny Burgess - Hackbridge
Planting Skills
Providing accurate feedback
Apologies for the patchy audio quality in this recording and below.
Handout: feedback
References and resources:
- Good feedback is a two way conversation (HBR)
- How to give feedback people can actually use (HBR)
- How to give tough feedback that helps people grow (HBR)
- How to give effective feedback (Mark Horstman podcast series)
- How to give effective feedback (One Thing podcast)
- How to receive feedback (One Thing podcast)
- Deflation: providing accurate feedback (Richard Perkins 2021, handout, audio)
- 6 levels of delegation
The Faithful Church Planter
Guarding and invigorating your prayer life
Handout: prayer
References and resources:
- Andy Mason, God’s Leader
- Craig Hamilton, Wisdom in Leadership, Chp 4: ‘Prayer is mandatory’ (main points: 1. Change what you pray for: be specific; 2. Change when you pray: in the middle of the meeting)
- Dependent Leadership: being a leader who prays (Richard Perkins audio)
- Tim Keller, Kingdom-Centered Prayer
- Good general resources on prayer: Coekin, Our Father; Miller, A Praying Life; Hardyman, Fresh Pathways in Prayer; Packer & Nystrom, Praying: Finding our way from duty to delight
We’re very grateful that Neil Powell, senior pastor of City Church Birmingham, co-founder and convener of 2020 Birmingham and London director for City to City UK, will be coming to unpack Tim Keller’s Center Church for the London Church Planting Academy on 4 Wednesday afternoons:
