MICRO CHURCHES

Welcome to this short video series with Bree Mills, presented by the Tinsley Institute.  

Bree Mills is an experienced micro church practitioner and the founder of Micro Movements, a network of micro church communities and leaders. Bree will introduce you to the concept of micro churches. Micro churches, missional communities, and house churches are on the rise around the world.
In this series discover the key elements of micro church, their outward focus, discerning the shape of mission for your context, what it means to make disciples, the life of a micro church and micro church multiplication. Bree suggests that micro churches can co-exist with existing churches, working in partnership to reach our society.

Course Overview  

Session 1: 

Micro-Church Markers  

• Gain a clear understanding of what micro churches are and why it matters in modern church expression.
• Explore six key markers that contribute to the identity of micro churches.

Session 2: 

Micro Movements 

• Come to understand the incarnational nature of micro churches.

• Learn four key ways to understand the community around you.

Session 3: 

Discerning God's Calling 

• Learn how to discern what shape mission might take in the contexts which God has placed us.
• Learn what a "person of peace" is in missional practice and how to find them.
• Consider the ways our context might shape the kind of micro church we become.

Session 4: 

Making Disciples 

• Learn what it means to make disciples in the context of a micro church.
• Discover the three aspects of making disciples and the steps you might take to be a more effective disciple maker.
• Be encouraged to be more willing to experiment in disciple making.

Session 5: 

Gathering Around Predictable Patterns

• Discover the inward life of a micro church, the patterns that shape the worship and communal life of a faith community.
• Learn what should be important to us as we gather together as believers.
• Consider what the differences might be between a micro church and a church-based small group meeting.

Session 6: 

Multiplying for Kingdom Impact 

• Discover why micro churches should multiply and ways this can happen.
• Learn what our motivation should be for multiplying micro churches.
• Gain a vision for reproducing leaders in our churches.

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In this series, Morling College Principal, Tim MacBride asks: if Jesus is the answer, what was the question?

This is a free, six episodes program, that outlines the expectations that had been forming for centuries among the people of God, and their expectations of what the next chapter in that story would look like. How would Jesus answered their question? Not in the way they were thinking! Understand the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus in the wider context of the story of God’s people—and to find our own place in that story, too. 

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