What would happen if God were to bring ten new believers into the Church in a single day? Would we be able to disciple them? What if it were a hundred people in a week? Do you think it's possible to receive a thousand new believers a month? If a million people were saved, would the Church be ready to disciple them? The Lord wants us to prepare workers for the harvest - people with a simple message of love and service, who can pass that message on. If we want to see many, many people come to Christ, then we will need to find a way for them to be discipled and to become disciplers. This book...

This study provides a survey of Japanese house church leaders, coupled with sociological analysis of leadership patterns in Japan focused primarily on the leadership of voluntary organisations and a historical review of house church movements, to determine the form and function of leaders and leadership within these movements. The key findings were that leadership is a function and not a role, is often coterminous with disciple-making, and can be characterized primary in terms of the maintainance of group cohesion.

The rise of Asian mission poses important questions to the global Church: How can we best relate to these burgeoning Asian mission movements? What can we learn from them? What models of partnership, mutual support and resourcing are appropriate-on both sides? This book presents the papers from three Asian Mission Consultations held at Redcliffe College in Gloucester between 2008 and 2010, which brought together mission leaders and practitioners from Asian and non-Asian missions to interact with these questions.

The wonderful privilege of being a mentor is to be able to catch a glimpse of what God wants to do in someone s life, what He wants to achieve through their life the dream that God has for them. Helping people grow is not just a job for the pastor or the minister. Anyone can have that privilege. It s not a matter of special wisdom or technique. It s about coming alongside people and bringing them to God and watching and wondering as He does the rest. The first mentoring handbook to come out of Asia, Mentoring Like Barnabas provides down-to-earth and practical tips for those mentoring Asians...

The SILE Book is a users and developers guide to SILE, a computer typesetting system for creating beautiful documents. Written by the systems author, it provides definitive information on creating documents, extending SILE through creating new packages, and customising the appearance of documents through classes. The SILE Book provides extensive worked examples of every area of the systems operation, including real-world applications of transforming XML to PDF with SILE.