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Category Archives: Tim Chester
Total Church Conference 2008
The Audio for The Total Church North America Conference 2008 has now been uploaded. Tim Chester and Steve Timmis recently published a book – “Total Church” with Re:Lit. This conference is the result of the ideas presented in the book. Main Sessions … Continue reading
Quotes and Thoughts: Everyday Church Chapter 1
After being greatly challenged and provoked to much thought by the book Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community, I’ve been waiting a long time in great anticipation of the follow-up book Everyday Church: Mission by Being Good … Continue reading
Is your Church and/or small group a community of grace or community of performance?
I find these distinctions helpful. Tim Chester has some helpful posts on this topic linked to and reposted below. Communities of Performance Verses [sic] Communities of Grace How Communities of Performance Impede Mission Creating Communities of Grace Communities of Performance Verses … Continue reading
CrossView Church Training for Mission Team Leadership
At the end of the discussions, we should make notes of where our church should be going and what steps, even baby steps, would move in that direction. Watch these 3 videos by Steve Timmis, prepare to discuss them and … Continue reading
Bible study/small group vs. a gospel/missional community
This is taken from Tim Chester: Small group/Bible study gospel/missional community Life together House groups often tend to be a weekly meeting. People talk about ‘house group night’ – the evening in which they ‘do’ house group by attending a … Continue reading
I was encouraged by this tweet on church planting
Steve Timmis tweeted: “One disciple at a time. One church at a time.” That brings things into perspective for me. There are a few neighbors/friends in the community that I should focus on making a disciple of the Lord Jesus. … Continue reading
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Steve Timmis Total Church Training session 2 notes
See the video here. Devolution – the shift of power, resources, and identity away from the center and out to the margins. This is a great model for churches of all sizes. It’s not a dismantling of the center. Gospel … Continue reading
Total Church video (lectures) training on cultivating Gospel-centered communities by Steve Timmis
Though I have a few disagreements with parts of the way the Total Church (written by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis) principles are fleshed out in church structure, I still recommend the book as one of the best I’ve read … Continue reading
Reflections on “Church Planting: A Theological Perspective” by Tim Chester, part 1 – How you define “church” shapes your approach to church planting
This is a chapter written by Tim Chester in a book entitled, “From Multiplying Churches” edited by Stephen Timmis (Christian Focus, 2000). Tim Chester’s chapter has 5 major points: (1) The doctrine of the church and church planting, (2) the … Continue reading
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Tim Chester mp3 on mission and the church
Tim Chester is one of my favorite authors to read on church, church planting, and mission. Here are three of his lectures on mission given at a recent Radstock Conference in the UK. Here’s a summary of Tim’s talks in … Continue reading
