Training and refreshing leaders and teams

"Step 11 is phrased as something that the network does, and as a network we are committed to training supporting, refreshing and encouraging leaders (for example, see pic below from one of our Weekends Away on the Diverse Side). We live in an age rammed full of information... We can find anything, important and trivial, with a few taps on our phones...

...The key factor in deciding our training is not the events that the network organises, and it’s not the availability of content: it’s the desire of the learner to get the training. That means that the content that networks like Antioch deliver is less important than the choices that church members and leaders make about getting the training they need..." 

Click the PDF link below for the full piece:

Step 11 Train Refresh Leaders Teams LATEST.pdf

Can an 11-Step Loop have a "Step 12"?

Yes - here's why

Our Church Planting Loop has 11 Stages, but our Directors often call it "the 12 Step Church Planting Loop," and the reason why is simple. Stage 11 is designed to be followed by... wait for it... Stage 1 (back to the beginning).

Our model is not a Church Planting "Line" but rather it's a "Loop". Once we grow to 30 adults or so, we start looking to plant another church. The overall aim is to make disciples of Jesus, and within this, planting new churches and training up leaders and teams form key parts of this overall objective.

For this to happen, we want to be able to encourage, strengthen and refresh existing church leaders and teams, to minimise the impact of pioneering new churches on the existing ones.

"Step 12" introduced

"Our goal is to build people up into Christ, and to see those who did not know Christ becoming his ambassadors. This requires a fundamental mind shift: it is one that goes against all human instinct and in the opposite direction to our culture. Throughout human history people have been largely selfish, both individually and as a society. Sometimes the individual is at the centre, sometimes the building of a social structure becomes the dominant force in our behaviour.

To grow people into leadership that has to change. Which means that we have to change..."

Click below for the full piece on Step 12 - Releasing Leaders:

Step 12 releasing leaders LATEST.pdf

A vision of the future - Step 12 continued

We want churches to be self-replicating, locally led, and to reach out effectively to those around them. In order to do that... we need to become craftsmen of leadership growth. 

It needs to be our priority, our primary focus. We need to ask the Lord to change us, to 
help us release others into ministry.

Click below to read the full article:

Step 12 Part 2 A vision of the future LATEST.pdf

Here are some useful external resources on the subject are below. Or else, to go back to the beginning, please click here.