Dear Church

Greetings to you all!

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The brokenness of the carnal recruitment processes of the world is reflected in the recruitment processes (and adverts) of the Church.

What do we include in our person specification for a church leader?

We include at least these 14 points in our personal specification for a church leader:

1. A man who is able to describe personal cost associated with their stand for the Gospel;

2. A man who is able to describe personal repentance and specific examples
of their change of mind recently;

3. A man who is able to describe relationships as well as estrangements;

4. A man who is able to describe their urgent burden for the lost;

5. A man who is NOT popular with everyone;

6. A man who even has enemies;

7. A man who has been ostracised;

8. A man whose stand for doctrinal clarity has been personally costly;

9. A man who can describe turning down an opportunity to alleviate pain,
ultimately declining out of conviction;

10. A man who is calling the Church to repentance as a Body and not only
individual members;

11. A man who is willing to relocate, to be disrupted, including family/children/job;

12. A man whose testimony is radically different post-2020 cf. pre-2020;

13. A man who sings/praises God every day;

14. A man who weeps for the state the Church and the glory of His Name.

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Maranatha?

Yours in Christ,

Nick & Mairi Franks

PS

Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥

2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come

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Dear Church

Greetings to you all!

If you’d prefer, you can watch the video versions of this podcast here and here.

This Christmas we focus on Luke chapter one and Isaiah chapter 9 — how many Christmas cards have you seen with Isaiah 9:5 on it? We hazard to guess…none.

In this special podcast episode, you can listen to a short devotional about Zechariah’s radical transformation of faith, followed by Mairi and Nick performing a spoken word monologue/pastiche, (under glitzy Christmas city lights), inspired by these two chapters.

Maranatha?

Yours in Christ,

Nick & Mairi Franks

PS

Our main giving page is here.

You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.

If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.

🤝 You can give here.

🤝 Contact us here.

✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.

Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥

2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come

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Dear Church

This is the video HERE to watch before listening to this podcast.

This is the Q&A session with pastors and elders following episode four of a new six-part YouTube series in which Mairi is reading out our 2024 book, God Closed Church. (All info about the book here).

How do church pastors and elders typically think about the all-important church closures of March 2020? Where are the fault lines that result from a lack of wisdom and 'prophetic knowledge'?

"Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint..." (Proverbs 29:18)

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." (Hosea 4:6)

Here is the first video.

Yours in Christ,

Nick & Mairi Franks

PS

Our main giving page is here.

You can read a full chapter and learn what this means in this here.

If you would like to help us to begin a new house church, please see here.

🤝 You can give here.

🤝 Contact us here.

✍️ Books (free to those in need) here.

Our flagship content: 🚢 🔥

2024: God Closed Church
2024: I AM JEALOUS
2023: The Glorious Few
2022: Homosexual Household Disrupted
2022: Repent Now; He Loves You.
2021: Calling YESHUA
2020: The Draft - A Conscription of Conscience
2019: Body Zero - Radical Preparation for the Return of Christ
2018: The Bothy Sessions - Mental Health & the Church
2016: Jesus Come

Support the show

Please support our podcast here.