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Five Boundaries that Make Your Experiment a Church
Luke Edwards | 18 Oct 2018
When I first wandered into the wilderness of starting a new form of church, all I had was a Bible and a sense that something new was needed in our...
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The Power of Tasting Delight
Luke Edwards | 1 May 2018
It’s not often a tweet stops me in my tracks. A few weeks back, doctoral candidate, Joy Clarkson, wrote, “When someone hasn’t read a classic book, I always try to...
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A Revolution of Belonging
Luke Edwards | 11 Oct 2017
Lately, I’ve been hearing Fresh Expressions referred to as “trendy, cool, church for middle-class millenials.” While some fresh expressions might fit this description, it is at best a superficial description...
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What is Church anyways?
Luke Edwards | 31 May 2017
The most controversial aspect of my ministry, besides the fact that the church I lead meets in a bar, is that I have the audacity to call it ‘church.’ I...
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Teach Us to be Good Listeners
Luke Edwards | 24 Apr 2017
At last year’s Thanksgiving dinner my three year old nephew prayed, “Dear God, teach us to be good listeners.” Undoubtedly, it was a prayer picked up from Sunday School teachers desperate...
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Want Your Church to Reach Young People?
Luke Edwards | 23 Jan 2017
In conversations with church leaders, a question I hear often is, “How do we reach young people?” While oversimplified answers to such questions typically annoy me, I was struck by...
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“Missional Worship” and Fresh Expressions of Church
Luke Edwards | 19 Oct 2016
Last week, I was telling a person from another church in town about one of King Street Church’s fresh expressions, where the word of God is read and proclaimed in...
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Fresh Expressions 101 (And What To Do Next)
Luke Edwards | 12 Sep 2016
So you’ve just heard about Fresh Expressions. Maybe it was from a friend who’s into church planting. Maybe your bishop or pastor has been talking about it. Or maybe someone...
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You Don’t Have to Leave the Church to Start One
Luke Edwards | 29 Aug 2016
A few months back, I attended a church planting conference and saw my old friend, “The Lone Ranger Church Planter.” You may know him (or her). The Lone Ranger Church...
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How 9 out of 10 People Found Our New Church
Luke Edwards | 18 Jul 2016
Elizabeth thought it was hilarious that the new Fresh Expressions book called her a “person of peace.” I replied, “You certainly are a pretty aggressive “person of peace” (Referring to...
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Above Reproach? When to Empower Risky Leaders
Luke Edwards | 13 Jun 2016
One of my favorite pieces of advice in my training for starting a church was “Know the rule before you break it.” In other words, in starting a fresh expression of church, we...
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Nothing New: Fresh Expressions of Church Rely on Rich Ecclesiology
Luke Edwards | 23 May 2016
One critique of the Fresh Expressions movement thus far has been that a fresh expression of church is not truly church. What observers might see as a departure from traditional ecclesiology is...