Dave Devenish

300 Leaders – Dave Devenish and Mike Betts

November 18, 2011

Yesterday I promised to blog about the two other speakers at the next 300 Leaders conference. Dave Devenish should be no stranger to regular readers of this blog, as I have serialised a chapter of his outstanding book Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission, and interviewed him. His is a remarkable man who gave up a successful [...]

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Apostles today? Part Four – What do they look like in practice?

June 29, 2011

The following post is from Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission by David Devenish, copyright 2011 reproduced with permission from Authentic Media. Those who are recognized as apostles by particular church networks are sometimes accused of making themselves equivalent to Paul or Peter, but this is not the case. In the similar context of prophets today, Jack [...]

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Apostles today? Part Three – Witnesses of the resurrection?

June 28, 2011

The following post is from Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission by David Devenish, copyright 2011 reproduced with permission from Authentic Media. Witnesses of the Resurrection? What then about the claim that to be an apostle someone must have seen Jesus in his resurrection? This assertion is based on 1 Corinthians 9, where Paul is justifying his [...]

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Apostles today? Part Two – Do Ephesians 4 ministries continue?

June 27, 2011

The following post is from Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission by David Devenish, copyright 2011 reproduced with permission from Authentic Media. Only Some of the Ministries Continue Today? We now turn to the third view: that the gifts of the Holy Spirit still continue today, but not the gift of the apostle. This view acknowledges that [...]

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Are there apostles today? A series by Dave Devenish

June 24, 2011

The following post is from Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission by David Devenish, copyright 2011 reproduced with permission from Authentic Media. Many years ago, my wife and I were leading a walking holiday in the Lake District (a beautiful region of northern England) with the youth group in our church. We had been joined by a [...]

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Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission – Restoring the role of the apostle in today’s church

June 23, 2011

With the recent launch of some absolutely seminal books from men that I love and respect, and the imminent commencement of the final Together On A Mission conference, I am sure you can forgive me for this prolonged focus on the distinctives that mark the movement of churches I am thrilled to be a part [...]

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TOAM10 – Dave Devenish on scattering

July 8, 2010

Gods purposes fulfilled through scattering. “Now those who had been scattered traveled as far as…” Acts 11:19ff Dave was encouraged by a prophecy during the worship, “The greatest scattering is now before us. Together to be scattered for Gods glory.” When God is about to initiate a major move forward, he does lots of things [...]

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TOAM08 – David Devenish – A Call to the Nations (Jeremiah 1)

July 10, 2008

I was getting tired last night, so I devoted more of my attention to being personally impacted by this message and less to typing. Thus, these notes will probably be shorter than some of the other sessions, which is probably just as well! Last night’s main session was taken by David Devenish. Dave is based [...]

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