The Porterbrook Network

In Ephesians 4:11-16, we are instructed about the means by which the Church grows up into maturity. God givescertain people to the church to equip all believers for ministry (Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors andTeachers). Then as each part is doing their job, they build up the body of Christ to maturity and the stature of thefullness of Christ. Paul goes on to describe what must take ...Continue

The GCM Collective, (Gospel Communities on Mission Collective), desires to promote just that: Communities of people, motivated by the gospel to living as sent ones in places God has called them to.  These communities desire to love God and love neighbor with the goal of making disciples of Jesus who then go out and make more disciples.   We believe that the three components of: ...Continue

In two weeks, in a suburban town outside of Seattle, we’ll be celebrating God’s grace and the Spirit’s work through baptizing a new disciple of Jesus.  The question that comes up the most when you speak about the evidences of grace we are experiencing is,”How did all this happen?” Now, some might read and not be overly impressed that we have one new baptism ...Continue

One of the turning points in my understanding of the mission that God has sent us on as his people came through our MC Leader training at Soma Communities.  It was on the discipleship process.  We sat down as leaders and went through many verses in the NT that showed how Jesus discipled his disciples.  To be honest, it transformed me.  Hopefully we'll have these trainings up ...Continue

When we (Soma Communities) train around the world, one of the most asked questions after training on The Story Formed Way is this: How do you get your neighbors to come to the Story? While this question is pretty natural, we need to be careful in how we handle the Story and "getting people to come."  The reason most of us ask this is because we have been trained to believe that the only ...Continue