@samward01

UK CEO @MessageTrust Loving God, family and the neighbourhood. @joineden

 Manchester UK
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Joined July 2013
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If our model of church cannot work in poor communities, we must abandon our model of church and not our poor communities. Brown
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3 days to go… Hear from Andy Hawthorne and Sam Ward about plans to step mission up even further in the next 3 years. Book your free ticket to Vision Night at message.org.uk/visionnight Happening this Saturday (12 Oct), 7pm at Audacious Church.
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If your theology does not work in the grit of the streets, it is unlikely to reflect the God who became human and walked them.
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Christ is love covered over in flesh Thomas Goodwin
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The most difficult step for many missionaries and urban church planters in the United States to take is to rearrange our lives. Jesus rearranged His life for us, and it is imperative that we rearrange our lives for the people he died for. Harvey Conn & Manuel Ortiz
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Really enjoyable visit to @20schemes
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1 week to go until the Message Vision Night! 🥳 We’d love for you to join us next Saturday (12 October) at 7pm at Audacious Church. You’ll get teaching from Nicky Gumbel and we're sharing our exciting three-year vision! Book your FREE tickets today message.org.uk/visionnight
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Love without cost is merely sentiment. Tim Keller
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God’s love and justice come together in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, and we can’t be about one and not the other. They’re inextricably connected. John M Perkins
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When numerical growth is taken as the criterion of judgment on the church, we are transported with alarming ease into the world of the military campaign or the commercial sales drive. Lesslie Newbigin
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After watching the video on Proximity about door knocking, Amanda was reminded that God had once called her to estate ministry. She felt inspired, so that Sunday she headed to church to find out how she could get involved in door knocking mission herself. proximityhub.org/video/aroun…
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When numerical growth is taken as the criterion of judgment on the church, we are transported with alarming ease into the world of the military campaign or the commercial sales drive. Lesslie Newbigin
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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life. Henri Nouwen
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The church exists by mission as fire exists by burning Emil Brunner
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An unmissionary church and an unchurchly mission are both, from the standpoint of the gospel, absurdities. Lesslie Newbigin
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Your desire for a 'move of God' has to be connected to a willingness to move for God.
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Of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhuman Martin Luther King Jr
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Love wills the good of neighbour, even if the neighbour will never receive the goodness of love. Kai Nilsen
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Throughout Scripture we read about God's concern for people who are vulnerable or suffering - the poor, the widows and orphans, the foreigners in the land, and so on. All Christians should feel a sense of calling to where there is pain in our society. Dr. Perkins
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From the comfort of our own homes it's hard to understand the complexities of something like poverty and homelessness. Terence Lester
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You can’t renew things by patching. You have to accept the fact that the old is old, and you have to be ready for what is radically new. Lesslie Newbigin
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