The Newfrontiers Youth Conference, New Day has posted its audio sermons online for free. Lots of great things happened during the week from what I heard, so the messages are no doubt well worth a listen.

Also, a great introduction to the values of this group of churches can be found in the audio from one of the recent Newfrontiers USA conferences.

I concluded my interview with Dave Stroud by asking him about the church he leads in London. You can download the mp3 of the entire interview or listen to the last part here:

I continue this interview by asking about how someone who believes God is speaking to them about church planting can begin to prepare themselves within Newfrontiers.

No. 3 in the list of top 100 US cities being targeted by Newfrontiers is Chicago. I got a facebook message this week asking me if I knew of a Church there for a student visiting. Incidentally, do feel free to be my friend, join my blog network or even share and comment on my posts over at facebook

I was thrilled to be able to find that there is a newfrontiers church in Chicago. Not just any church either, judging by the website but one that has a clear vision of what they are trying to do judging by the following extract from their website which turned my head.

Yes, we're unashamedly Christian but don't freak out and click for something else. Let us tell you our story.

We're a community of everyday people who want to explore what it means to be a Christ follower in our everyday lives. We're real. Our faith is real. Our lives are gritty. We don't have all the answers but we're not afraid to work it out together - rooted in God's word. that's what it's all about!

We're a community, a part of the global village. we're talking deep dish pizza, hummus and pita breads, home baked lasagna, beans and burritos, hot dawgs and sauce. We eat Sunday dinner together as often as we can. We email and call each other during the week to stay in touch and when things aren't crazy busy we even hook up for a cup of coffee. We celebrate birthdays, go bowling, prepare meals for people in need, play Scrabble, watch movies, housesit, baby-sit, pack boxes when someone's moving house, and share our lives together. It's tough building community in the city but we believe Christianity is all about it.

We don't believe in fairy tales. We believe Jesus Christ really lived and walked this earth and chose to die for our sins. That's right, we see ourselves as sinners in need of his grace. We're talking repentance, hope, freedom, healing, grace, joy, truth, and most importantly love. So real. So refreshing.

We launched Fusion in East Rogers Park, Chicago, Il, in February 2006 but people travel from all over Chicagoland to be a part of our urban family - and friends and family visit us from different nations too. Sure, we're small. We're new. We're learning. We make mistakes. We say we're sorry. We reach out. We don't have a target market, anyone is welcome. We don't have all the answers. We're everyday people. And we're plugged into Newfrontiers, a family of more than 500 churches in over 50 nations across the globe.

We come just as we are - that's what Jesus is all about. We are unafraid to challenge stuff and, we live out our lives based on God's word. Yes, we believe its the inspired word of God. We don't pretend! We don't tell you what you want to hear. We are Christ followers and Christ seekers - together, on a mission. Everyday people exploring the true essence of Christianity and what it means in our everyday lives to be a Christ follower. READ MORE from this Chicago church.

This autumn a Worship School will be taking place on the south coast of England. Home of some well-known Christian worship leaders such as Stuart Townend, Phatfish, Paul Oakley, and Simon Brading, among others, Church of Christ the King is something of a worship center. This autumn, if you want to learn more about leading worship or playing in a worship band, why not sign up to attend training sessions in which they will all be sharing.

You can also join a Facebook group for worship leaders from around the world where you will be able to discuss things together as a group.

I found a way of embedding a flikr slide show here on the blog. I hope you like these photos from Driscoll's London trip.


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This is the second and final part of my interview with Scott Thomas of the Acts 29 Network. You can download the audio of whole interview or watch the second part below. Part 1 can be seen here.

Scott speaks about how Acts 29 aims to help potential church planters.

The majority of the MP3s from Together On A Mission are now available direct from the Newfrontiers Resources page, or from the following summary posts I wrote during the week.

Session Summaries

• TOAM08 - Stephen Van Rhyn - Prevailing Under Pressure (Daniel)
• TOAM08 - Mark Driscoll: Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Luke and Acts
• TOAM08 - Terry Virgo on Stephen (Acts 6-7)
• TOAM08 - David Stroud on 1 Samuel 14
• TOAM08 - Apostles and Prophets Together on a Mission
• TOAM08 - Mark Driscoll on the Missional Church
• TOAM08 - Mark Driscoll's Perspective On Newfrontiers
• TOAM08 - David Devenish - A Call to the Nations (Jeremiah 1)
• TOAM08 - Keith Hazell - Prophets and Prophets Together: A Fuller Picture
• TOAM08 - What Happens Between The Sessions
• TOAM08 - P-J Smyth on the Army of God (1 Chronicles 11-12)
• TOAM08 - Mark Driscoll on Missional Movements (Acts 1)
• TOAM08 – JOIN A CHURCH PLANT in a European City - Prayer Evening Report
• TOAM08 - Sam Poe & Phil Wilthew - Pastors and Prophets Building Together
• TOAM08 - Terry Virgo on Philip (Acts 8)

Other Posts About Together On A Mission

• Terry Virgo Appraises Mark Driscoll's Trip

• VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mark Driscoll, Part 1 - Prophecy and Newfrontiers
• VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mark Driscoll, Part 2 - A Prophecy For Newfrontiers and Worship
• VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mark Driscoll, Part 3 - Impressions of the UK
• VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mark Driscoll, Part 4 - Multiculturalism and Missi

• Together On A Mission 2008 - The Newfrontiers Conference

In case the title of this post completely mystifys you and you have not heard of this group of Christians, I have written previously about them in “What is a Reformed Charismatic?”

The phrase “1,000 reformed charismatic churches” has been going around in my head on and off for awhile now. Because several different applications of that number are running through my mind, I thought I’d share each of them with you here.

The first thought I had was simply this: although often considered to be a small minority, the number of reformed charismatics is increasing. I therefore wondered if there are now 1,000 reformed charismatic churches around the world? I suspect there must be. According to my interview with Terry Virgo, Newfrontiers is now nearing 600 churches, so surely there must be at least 1,000 if you add to that Sovereign Grace Ministries, Acts 29, and of course, other individual churches and networks, some of which, no doubt, I have not yet even heard about. (Incidentally, I'd particularly like to hear about any of you out there who go to a reformed charismatic church that isn't part of one of the three groups I just mentioned—drop me an e-mail at adrian.warnock@gmail.com.)

We probably can agree that there must be at least 1,000 reformed charismatic churches in the world. But are there 1,000 reformed charismatic churches in any individual country in the world? I doubt it very much. I am certain we don't have 1,000 such churches here in there UK. I would be very surprised indeed if there were that number in the USA.

But why do I mention 1,000 reformed charismatic churches when it comes to an individual country like the USA or the UK? In the UK, Newfrontiers now has 220 churches, which because we have 60 million people, works out to one church per 270,000 people. So, along with other groups, we have made some small impact, although surely there is still much work for us to do, even in the UK. But here is where it gets interesting. A church for every 270,000 people in the USA would work out to aproximately 1,000 churches. So I guess we have still further to go in America. I suspect, however, that there are many reformed charismatic churches in the USA which are not part of any network with which I’m familiar.

But the number 1,000 is featured in other ways as well. The Acts 29 Network's audacious goal is to plant 1,000 churches themselves over twenty years. I fully expect them to reach that goal given their current rate of growth. Also, a number of years ago a prophetic word led Newfrontiers in the UK to dare to believe God for 1,000 churches in our own nation. Within Newfrontiers meetings we often hear the challenging goal for church planting and growing large churches — “1,000 churches and churches of 1,000 people.”

Do we need lots of reformed charismatic churches? I believe we do. Firstly, we need reformed charismatic churches to show Christians that there really is a third option between arid intellectualism and brainless experiential showmanship. It’s not that the caricatures we tend to make of both cessationists and charismatics are entirely accurate; it’s just that churches that are unashamedly both reformed and charismatic can give confidence to others to make that plunge, or at least ensure they do not meet the caricature defining their end of the spectrum. I believe that it is a good thing to have different churches in any given town that can provoke each other and learn from one another.

But I also believe that reformed charismatic churches are often uniquely placed to become genuinely missional churches that can reach out and grow largely by salvation. We live in a culture that has, for the most part, turned its back on traditional church. Why shouldn’t we offer the world a church whose methods, music, style, and experience are totally up-to-date, but where the message remains old-fashioned and traditional in the sense of being solidly biblical?

One man with a vision to plant churches that will affect thousands of people is John Lanferman. He speaks of having on his laptop a list of the top 100 cities of the USA where 87 per cent of the people live. The cry of his heart is that 100 reproducing missional reformed charismatic churches be planted by Newfrontiers USA in those cities. Here's what he said about it in an interview with me. I had asked him what a missional church was:

“A church that understands that it exists for the express purpose of carrying the gospel to the next door neighbor, to the person in the next block, to the person in the next city, state, and nation, and they exist for the purpose of being carriers of the gospel. So they are involved, not only in proclamation, but they are involved in changing the whole culture of a community. They would be people who would be involved in cross-cultural evangelism. They would be people who would be involved in changing the social justice—be involved in that ministry to the poor—so they have a desire to see the whole community that they are involved with, the towns they are involved with, changed and made into a kingdom community. It’s people who understand, “We do not exist for ourselves, but we exist for them.” So the way we spend our money, the way we staff our churches, the way our churches feel, the way they operate, have that outward appeal. And it’s a God-centered approach to humanity rather than an inward, “What about me and my needs?” It’s a man-centered approach . . . If we can get outstanding churches in each of these 100 large cities, and out from that, begin to reproduce ourselves—because I’m fanatical on reproducing churches. We must not just plant churches, but we [want to] see churches that view themselves as reproducing churches multiply themselves, raise up leaders, give themselves away, spread out in the communities and the nations beyond."

— John Lanferman

Here is a list of those 100 cities. With the new sense of urgency in our movement following the Brighton conference, you could be finding a reformed charismatic church starting near you sooner than you think if you live in one of them. I would be only too happy to pass e-mails on to the relevant people if YOU live in one of these cities and would like to play a part in seeing this vision come to fruition. Attending one of our USA conferences would be a good first step.
Please join me in mentioning each of these cities before the Lord in prayer as you finish reading this post. May each of them soon have a reformed charismatic church. Actually, most of them will need more than one church given their size. This table shows three columns—the city, its state, and the population. In the last column, I will also gradually add links to Newfrontiers churches and church plants in these cities:

1	New York	New York	&0000000008250567.0000008,250,567
2	Los Angeles	California	&0000000003849378.0000003,849,378
3	Chicago	Illinois	&0000000002833321.0000002,833,321 Fusion Church, Chicago
4	Houston	Texas	&0000000002144491.0000002,144,491
5	Phoenix	Arizona	&0000000001512986.0000001,512,986
6	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	&0000000001448394.0000001,448,394
7	San Antonio	Texas	&0000000001296682.0000001,296,682
8	San Diego	California	&0000000001256951.0000001,256,951
9	Dallas	Texas	&0000000001232940.0000001,232,940
10	San Jose	California	&0000000000929936.000000929,936
11	Detroit	Michigan	&0000000000918849.000000918,849
12	Jacksonville	Florida	&0000000000794555.000000794,555
13	Indianapolis	Indiana	&0000000000785597.000000785,597
14	San Francisco	California	&0000000000744041.000000744,041
15	Columbus	Ohio	&0000000000733203.000000733,203
16	Austin	Texas	&0000000000709893.000000709,893
17	Memphis	Tennessee	&0000000000670902.000000670,902
18	Fort Worth	Texas	&0000000000653320.000000653,320
19	Baltimore	Maryland	&0000000000640961.000000640,961
20	Charlotte	North Carolina	&0000000000630478.000000630,478
21	El Paso	Texas	&0000000000609415.000000609,415
22	Milwaukee	Wisconsin	&0000000000602782.000000602,782
23	Boston	Massachusetts	&0000000000590763.000000590,763
24	Seattle	Washington	&0000000000582454.000000582,454
25	Washington	District of Columbia	&0000000000581530.000000581,530
26	Denver	Colorado	&0000000000566974.000000566,974
27	Louisville	Kentucky	&0000000000554496.000000554,496
28	Las Vegas	Nevada	&0000000000552539.000000552,539
29	Nashville	Tennessee	&0000000000552120.000000552,120
30	Oklahoma City	Oklahoma	&0000000000537734.000000537,734
31	Portland	Oregon	&0000000000537081.000000537,081
32	Tucson	Arizona	&0000000000518956.000000518,956
33	Albuquerque	New Mexico	&0000000000504949.000000504,949
34	Atlanta	Georgia	&0000000000486411.000000486,411
35	Long Beach	California	&0000000000472494.000000472,494
36	Fresno	California	&0000000000466714.000000466,714
37	Sacramento	California	&0000000000453781.000000453,781
38	Mesa	Arizona	&0000000000447541.000000447,541
39	Kansas City	Missouri	&0000000000447306.000000447,306
40	Cleveland	Ohio	&0000000000444323.000000444,323
41	Virginia Beach	Virginia	&0000000000435619.000000435,619
42	Omaha	Nebraska	&0000000000427872.000000427,872
43	Miami	Florida	&0000000000404048.000000404,048
44	Oakland	California	&0000000000397067.000000397,067
45	Tulsa	Oklahoma	&0000000000382872.000000382,872
46	Honolulu	Hawaii	&0000000000377357.000000377,357
47	Minneapolis	Minnesota	&0000000000372833.000000372,833
48	Colorado Springs	Colorado	&0000000000372437.000000372,437
49	Arlington	Texas	&0000000000367197.000000367,197
50	Wichita	Kansas	&0000000000357698.000000357,698
51	Raleigh	North Carolina	&0000000000356321.000000356,321
52	St. Louis	Missouri	&0000000000353837.000000353,837
53	Santa Ana	California	&0000000000340024.000000340,024
54	Anaheim	California	&0000000000334425.000000334,425
55	Tampa	Florida	&0000000000332888.000000332,888
56	Cincinnati	Ohio	&0000000000332252.000000332,252
57	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	&0000000000312819.000000312,819
58	Bakersfield	California	&0000000000308392.000000308,392
59	Aurora	Colorado	&0000000000303582.000000303,582
60	Toledo	Ohio	&0000000000298446.000000298,446
61	Riverside	California	&0000000000293761.000000293,761
62	Stockton	California	&0000000000290141.000000290,141
63	Corpus Christi	Texas	&0000000000285267.000000285,267
64	Newark	New Jersey	&0000000000281402.000000281,402
65	Anchorage	Alaska	&0000000000278700.000000278,700
66	Buffalo	New York	&0000000000276059.000000276,059
67	St. Paul	Minnesota	&0000000000273535.000000273,535
68	Lexington	Kentucky	&0000000000270789.000000270,789
69	Plano	Texas	&0000000000255009.000000255,009
70	Fort Wayne	Indiana	&0000000000248637.000000248,637
71	St. Petersburg	Florida	&0000000000248098.000000248,098
72	Glendale	Arizona	&0000000000246531.000000246,531
73	Jersey City	New Jersey	&0000000000241789.000000241,789
74	Lincoln	Nebraska	&0000000000241167.000000241,167
75	Henderson	Nevada	&0000000000240614.000000240,614
76	Chandler	Arizona	&0000000000240595.000000240,595
77	Norfolk	Virginia	&0000000000238832.000000238,832
78	Greensboro	North Carolina	&0000000000236865.000000236,865
79	Scottsdale	Arizona	&0000000000231127.000000231,127
80	Baton Rouge	Louisiana	&0000000000229553.000000229,553
81	Birmingham	Alabama	&0000000000229424.000000229,424
82	Madison	Wisconsin	&0000000000223389.000000223,389
83	New Orleans	Louisiana	&0000000000223388.000000223,388
84	Chesapeake	Virginia	&0000000000220560.000000220,560
85	Orlando	Florida	&0000000000220186.000000220,186
86	Garland	Texas	&0000000000217963.000000217,963
87	Hialeah	Florida	&0000000000217141.000000217,141
88	Laredo	Texas	&0000000000215484.000000215,484
89	Chula Vista	California	&0000000000212756.000000212,756
90	Lubbock	Texas	&0000000000212169.000000212,169
91	Reno	Nevada	&0000000000210255.000000210,255
92	Akron	Ohio	&0000000000209704.000000209,704
93	Durham	North Carolina	&0000000000209009.000000209,009
94	Rochester	New York	&0000000000208123.000000208,123
95	Modesto	California	&0000000000205721.000000205,721
96	Montgomery	Alabama	&0000000000201998.000000201,998
97	Fremont	California	&0000000000201691.000000201,691
98	Shreveport	Louisiana	&0000000000200199.000000200,199
99	Arlington	Virginia	&0000000000199776.000000199,776
100	Glendale	California	&0000000000199463.000000199,463

Source:
Wikipedia—List of United States Cities by Population

Terry Virgo has blogged about the recent Mark Driscoll visit. You really should go read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt:

Pettiness and small-mindedness don’t stand a chance when he cuts loose with his burning desire to see Christ glorified in our generation. His radical priorities and decision-making are deeply rooted in a passion to confront our contemporaries with gospel truth.

Being convinced of the authority of Scripture and the sovereignty of God, his driven urgency does not yield to a pragmatism that cuts corners. Big Biblical principles shape his thinking and his practice.

Few can be ahead of him in his radical application of modern means of communication. Literally millions of downloads of his preaching are being made all around the world and his commitment to multi-campus church speaks of a brilliant entrepreneurial style.

His humour, often expressed in hilarious one-liners, makes him so fascinating to listen to. One example: ‘A guy who won’t take responsibility is not really a man, he’s just a boy who shaves.’

Biting relevance also characterises him, whether he is challenging young people about moral purity or confronting a movement about its need to face the future not with nostalgia but with courage and decisiveness. He really gets under your skin! He could have simply given us a few good sermons, but he certainly didn’t settle for that!"

Read More . . .

Today I conclude my interview with Mark Driscoll. You can download the audio of the whole interview and watch the final segment below. The three previous segments can be viewed at the following pages:

• Video Interview - Mark Driscoll, Part 1 - Prophecy and Newfrontiers
  
  
• Video Interview - Mark Driscoll, Part 2 - A Prophecy for Newfrontiers and Worship
  
  
• Video Interview - Mark Driscoll, Part 3 - Impressions of the UK

During the course of this interview, Driscoll is very warm about Newfrontiers. If you are interested in finding out more about Newfrontiers, why not attend one of the Newfrontiers events in the USA, the UK, or other countries or visit the Newfrontiers website, or Terry Virgo's Blog.

Mark Driscoll also has a blog, hosted at The Resurgence, where you can find out more, as well as the Acts 29 Network and Mars Hill Church.

I continue my interview talking about Driscoll's impressions of the UK.

I continue my interview with Mark Driscoll by talking about his prophecy for Newfrontiers and his view of our worship.

I have not yet had a chance to finalize my notes from the Dwell Conference, so I thought I'd begin sharing the video content I have from my time in Brighton. Keep coming back for more interviews, and also for the notes still outstanding.

I begin my interview with Mark Driscoll by talking about his impressions of Newfrontiers and his view of prophecy.

UPDATE - At the moment, it seems the only way to download this message is to subscribe to the CCK podcast via iTunes. I hope this will be fixed soon.

Mark Driscoll returned to Brighton on Sunday evening and preached on Jeremiah 29 again.

As it was a young, mostly single congregation, he really went for it, especially strongly emphazising the material aimed at young men. If you know a single guy, dare him to download the sermon or listen to it online here:

This is the final set of notes I will post. But come back over the next week or two for a series of video interviews, and over this weekend for some notes from other talks Driscoll will be giving around London. As mp3s are posted, we will also be adding download links to the individual summary pages, but you can also check online or subscribe to the podcast.

The final main session of the Brighton Leaders' Conference was taken by Terry Virgo. More posts from this conference can be found on my TOAM08 label page. You can download the mp3 of Terry's talk or listen to it right here:


Terry began by thanking us for the great personal affection of which he was very aware yesterday. He then read almost the whole of this interesting chapter in Acts 8 on the character of Philip, the only named evangelist in the New Testament.

Both Stephen and Philip are introduced as men who are playing their part in a rapidly growing church. Terry described Stephen in his first talk on Tuesday. Today he completes this mini-series with a look at Philip.

There seems to be two halves to the description of Philip. In the first half he is in a domestic scene looking after the needs of widows. Foundations must be built into lives before they can have a public ministry.

This evangelist wasn't a loner with a ministry. He was known and loved in a local church. He wasn't isolated. He wasn't someone who just hadn't fit in so decides to leave the church to "go and do his evangelism thing." Rather notice what is said about him. He's selected by the church. He has a good reputation. When the church wants someone reliable, his name comes up. He was recognized for being “full of the Holy Spirit” when thousands were full of the Holy Spirit. He somehow stood out in that way, suggesting, incidentally, that there are degrees of being full of the Spirit. He was gifted, but he didn't push for his gift; he served, took his place so others could get on with their ministry. He didn't demand to be recognized. He was willing to take a lower profile, to put God first.

Later on, he goes and preaches. The Apostles come and he doesn't tell them to “get out of here,” he receives them. They came to bring the Spirit's fullness and to remove someone who was getting too much profile. In our family life, we should teach our kids to be team players. Don't insist on your own way. Don't just “let them do their own thing.” Prepare them for the kingdom. Ephesians 4 says that the gifts are given to equip the saints so that they may become mature. A mature man looks like Jesus — someone who knows he has come from God and is going to God, and yet he washes his disciples' feet!

Through love become one another’s slaves. Don't take the attitude, “I'm not appreciated here so I'll go somewhere else where I am appreciated.” Be a team player. His household was good. His daughters later are described as having prophesied regularly. [Incidentally, as a side note apart from what Terry actually said, it struck me once again as I was listening that there is no record of these daughter's prophecies being viewed as Scripture, and they are not recorded in the Bible. It still surprises me that some people persist in seeing all prophecy as equivalent to Scripture.]

Back to Terry. These daughters were not rebellious, but full of the Spirit. They were respected. They had been taught to listen to him. Must have been good relationships and an honoring of women. Philip had an exemplary home. It'