The Co-Mission Podcast

“The Motivation to Share Your Life" | Linda Trevitt from Co-Mission Women's Day 2020

On Saturday, the 25th of January, 300 women from 32 churches throughout London attended Co-Mission Women's Day, a morning of Bible teaching, worship and time together. Today, we hear the first talk from Linda Trevitt, Women’s Worker at Christ Church Earlsfield, on Luke 15 entitled “The Motivation to Share Your Life."

The Heart of the Cross | Steve Jeffery from REVIVE 2019

The heart of the cross is penal substitutionary atonement. But what does that mean exactly, and why do many theologians object to this doctrine? Steve Jeffrey is the Minister of Emmanuel Evangelical Church in north London. He helped write a book on this topic - Pierced for our Transgressions. He unpacks this doctrine for us by looking back to the Old Testament for clues to this pattern embedded all throughout scripture. 

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Knife Crime: What can we do? How can we pray? | Jason O'Shea from REVIVE 2019

Today on the Co-Mission Podcast we hear from Jason O'Shea, a missionary for London City Mission in Lewisham. He and his wife Tayo run Operation Forgiveness, an outreach program for school children that looks to tackle the knife crime epidemic in London.

Please note: this week's podcast is a tough listen, but it is very important.

Jason Roach wrote an article about how The Bridge Battersea are facing serious youth violence on the estate they are in. This issue is directly affecting our churches and communities across our city. We need to pray.

Evangelism Reboot | Tom Heasman

Evangelism Reboot:  How to Get Conversations Going when No-one is Asking Questions

We’re finally (sorry about the delay) posting the final seminar talks from REVIVE 2019 and today we’re hearing from Tom Heasman, one of the associate pastors at Dundonald Church.

Does it feel like your evangelistic zeal has rather cooled off? Do you struggle to know how to start evangelistic conversations and what to say to people? Tom is going to help us as we think about how to go and tell the gospel in our secular age.

Tom is behind a number of first step evangelistic resources, your church may be using one of them - A Better Hero and A Better Life. You can find out more about these resources, and more at Something Better, a website put together by Dundonald Church to equip church members in evangelism.

Tech Tactics for Families | Sam Williamson from REVIVE 2019

We're in the seminar tents from REVIVE 2019 for the next few weeks as we hear talks on a huge variety of topics. Today we hear from Sam Williamson, Senior Pastor at Grace Church Worcester Park. Sam spoke on having healthy tech tactics for families.

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Is this It? | Rachel Jones from REVIVE 2019

Today we hear from Rachel Jones - Rachel is an award winning author, as well as editor for The Good Book Company. Her seminar was based on her latest book that looks at navigating living for Jesus in your 20s and 30s - Is this it? 

For more about Rachel’s book, go to the Good Book Company Website and look for the book with the avocado on the front.

Compassionate and Credible? | Dr Felicia Wong & Dr Rachel Owusu-Ankomah from REVIVE 2019

Today we hear from Rachel and Felicia from the Christian Medical Fellowship as they walk us through the medical ethical issues at the beginning and end of life. Rachel and Felicia also wrote an article on medical ethics for our latest edition of articles. Go to co-mission.org/articles for this as well as links to more CMF resources.

How can I be involved in church planting? | Richard Perkins and Andy Harker at REVIVE 2019

We’re in the seminar tents from REVIVE 2019 for the next few weeks as we hear talks on a huge variety of topics. We start today with Richard Perkins and Andy Harker.

Richard Perkins is the director of church planting for Co-Mission, and Andy Harker is Director of 9:38. He’s also leading a cross network project called the London Church Planting Academy. Andy and Richard were talking about how we can all be involved in Gospel Ministry whether or not we are looking into full time ministry.

For more on church planting, and our ministry trainee scheme, go to www.co-mission.org. And for more on the London Church Planting Academy, go to londonplantingacademy.org

The Power of the Cross | Richard Coekin at REVIVE 2019

We’ve come to the last of our big top talks, and today we’re hearing again from Co-Mission CEO Richard Coekin. Richard was speaking at our Friday celebration, and launching REVIVE, as he preached from 1 Corinthians 1:22-24.

From next week we’ll start playing the seminars - starting with Richard Perkins and Andy Harker on Church Planting.

Dramatic Reading & Jason Roach from REVIVE 2019

Today we’re hearing a talk from Jason Roach, pastor of the Bridge, Battersea. Jason’s talk took place during the Saturday Evening Celebration at REVIVE. The celebration was a mix of drama, spoken word, sung worship and prayer as we considered the words of the centurion, as written in the Gospel accounts, “Surely this man was the Son of God.” We’ll hear from Jason later in the podcast, but before that we’re going to play the dramatic reading of Mark 15:1-39.

Later in the evening Jason Roach reflected on the passage and its implications. Check out our Facebook page here for videos from REVIVE and more.