Media

Most of the teaching I do in our church is interactive so there is not a lot of audio of me on the web. It also means that there’s not much Bible exposition among what there is which is a shame as that’s what I enjoy doing best!

Here are the videos of my talks at Lead09:

Community as identity

Community as lifestyle

Mission as identity

Mission as lifestyle

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Click here for my YouTube channel.

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Good News to the Poor – New Word Alive 2008

The poor and the Christian mission – part one

The poor and the Christian mission – part two

The poor and the Christian community

The poor and the Christian message – part one

The poor and the Christian message – part two

(Audio courtesy of Micah’s Call)

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Audio from four talks on rethinking church I gave at day conference sponsored by TEAM in Cambridge.

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The Trinity and Humanity

Here are a couple of interviews I gave on the doctrine of the Trinity, focusing on its implications for what it means to be human. They were produced by Andrew Cook who works for the radio department of Grace Baptist Mission. The interviews are part of a programme for church leaders called Serving Today which goes out mainly in India and Africa.

Part One

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Part Two

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Audio of me speaking at the Keswick Convention from Revelation 2 on ‘Why Holiness Matters’. This talk is also available in written from here.

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Here’s the audio of an interview I gave with Phil Walker of TransWorld Radio about my books You Can Change, The Busy Christians Guide to Busyness and Total Church.

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Plenary Sessions

A Community-centered Gospel – Steve Timmis

The gospel is about a King who died to rescue a people who would reveal his character by their shared lives. In keeping with who I am ‘in Adam’, I individualize and privatize the gospel so that church is reduced to a necessary but often intrusive addendum. The gospel calls us to live ‘in Christ’ corporately and so show the power of the cross to reconcile and create community. (A Community-Centered Gospel Q&A)

A Gospel-centered Community – Steve Timmis

The gospel is that which creates, sustains, nurtures and perfects the church. To achieve this, the gospel needs to be at the center of all we are and do as the people of God. The gospel needs to be taken out of our pulpits and meetings and applied into the mundane and routine of our corporate and personal lives. (A Gospel-Centered Community Q&A)

Rethinking Attractional Church – Tim Chester

Attractional church (‘come to us’) and missional church (‘go to them’) are often set up as alternatives, yet throughout the Scriptures God calls his people to a life that attracts the nations. We can bring attractional and missional approaches together by re-conceiving church as a community rather than an event. (Rethinking Q&A Session)

Remodeling Attractional Church – Steve Timmis

As we focus more on the quality of our lives together rather than the slick performance of our Sunday meetings we will see how a gospel community is an integral and indispensable piece of the evangelism jigsaw. In fact, people won’t be able to fully understand the magnitude of what God has done in Christ without it. (Remodeling Q&A Session)

Making Disciples for Missional Church – Tim Chester

‘I’m free and belong to no man’ could be the slogan of our age. But Paul continues: ‘I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.’ What kind of people are going to sustain a church planting movement? This session explores how the cross and resurrection should shape our lives. (Making Disciples Q&A)

Making Disciples in Missional Church – Tim Chester

This session looks at how we train and pastor one another in the context of ordinary life and the context of Christian community.