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Baptists Together magazine

 
Baptists Together is the A4 magazine which is sent to each minister, church secretary and church treasurer.  It seeks to share a range of stories of how our Baptist family is serving God in mission and ministry, as well as giving you information about developments within our Union and challenging you in your own discipleship.

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Prayers
These prayers are taken from the Vital Signs resource of The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and are republished with permission
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Children, young people and families
Every child is important to God, and we need to find ways for churches to be welcoming, safe and inclusive in all ways.
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Resources
A selection of books exploring discipleship
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Discipleship in a digital community
Simon Werrett is part of two church communities - his local, onsite congregation is Burnham on Crouch Baptist Church in Essex, where he is the community digital pastor, and an online community principally through Facebook and Zoom
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Discipleship and the joy of welcoming refugees
How Shoreditch Tab Church is responding to the refugees in its midst. An interview with Baptist minister Georgina Stride
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Discipleship and chaplaincy
Discipleship is not the purpose of most chaplaincy roles, writes hospital chaplain Sarah Crane – but it still features in surprising way
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Making disciples who make disciples
Baptist minister Torquil Allen highlights his involvement with The Rooftop, which seeks to create a global disciple-making movement
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Discipleship on an estate
Baptist minister Tom Grant is the head of Proximity, a new, free resource hub for churches, leaders and anyone working in urban ministry and mission. Proximity will begin 2025 with an in-depth focus on discipleship
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Disciple-making in Toxteth
Members of Toxteth Tabernacle Baptist Church in Liverpool are exploring what it means to be a disciple-making community. Interview with minister Jack Sykes
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Discipleship in later life
Why churches should encourage the discipleship journey for those in later life - and some ideas how to. By Alex Drew
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This intentional style of development should not stop with women
MagnifyYou was a two-year development programme for a group of ordained women leaders - and resulted in several participants sensing the call to ministries they hadn’t previously considered. This article draws on Beth Powney’s MagnifyYou research paper.
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Ministers as fellow disciples
Many people look to ministers to disciple them. But what of a minister’s own discipleship? Tim Fergusson offers a reflection on its importance - and suggestions for how it might happen
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The benefits of microchurch for discipleship
The newest Firestarters book aims to empower churches to become disciple-making communities. It offers the idea that pursuing more scattered ways of being church might help in encouraging a body of believers to put into practice all they are learning.
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Whole-life discipleship in our churches
In his role with The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), Ken Bennjamin has created a suite of resources called Vital Signs to help us all move from good intentions to best practice on disciplemaking.
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Discipleship, suffering and justice
What we can learn from a Majority World perspective in light of the challenges we face today. By Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
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Cross-shaped discipleship
I wonder how much you and I have our hearts set on human things rather than divine things? By Lynn Green
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Biblical foundations for discipleship
Mark’s gospel suggests four ways of fixing our eyes on Jesus - each of which help us see different dimensions of discipleship and respond freshly to his life-giving, revolutionary invitation to ‘follow him’, writes Peter Morden
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Autumn 2024 edition
Articles from 'Come, follow me'
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The practice of centering prayer 
In this video Jonathan Vaughan Davies, minister of Bethel Baptist Church, Cardiff invites Rosa Hunt, co-principal of Cardiff Baptist College, to introduce the practice of centering prayer
A lamentable problem  
Tim Judson shares a brief overview of the biblical and historical tradition of lament
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Chat and catch 
Chat and Catch is a framework created by Parenting for Faith that encourages children to communicate with God on their own terms – and then to hear from Him. Kate Irvine, Parenting for Faith Support Coordinator, explains more
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Prayers
Taken from the Baptist compilations Prayers of the People (2011) and Gathering up the Crumbs (2020)
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Praying for our Children
How would those who lead our children like us to pray for them? And do they have recommendations on how we can encourage our children to cultivate a prayer life?
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Resources
A selection of resources to inspire your prayer life
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Praying Through an activation
One of Matt Holman’s favourite ways to pray is by using an ‘activation’, which simply means hearing God through an activity. He introduces one here.
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Raising the spiritual temperature in Portishead  
New Baptist initiatives are beginning to emerge in north Somerset - Lindsay Caplen explains why prayer has been key
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Scripture recognises there are different kinds of prayer 
Nike Adebajo is a Regional Minister with the Yorkshire Baptist Association. Having helped facilitate ecumenical prayer gatherings in Sheffield, she emphasises the value in learning from other traditions – including from the global south and east
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We are sharing Jesus with people 
Interview with Allan Barbazza, singer-songwriter and minister of King’s Cross Baptist Church in London
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Prayer at a Renew space  
“A simple and accessible way of people meeting Christ” – interview with Ellen Price of Renew Stocky in Derby
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We are activists held together by contemplative prayer 
With Sally Mann and Bonny Downs Baptist Church
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Church growth, vibrant ecumenical relationships 
David Evans highlights the impact of prayer walking
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Pilgrimage: Prayer on the move
Paul Revill walked more than 500 miles from his old home in the north east in preparation for a new ministry in Portishead. He explains why pilgrimage walking is an intentionally prayerful activity
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The power of evangelistic prayer
Why prayer is at the heart of evangelism – and three evangelistic prayers anyone can commit to. By Chrissy Remsberg
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Tarry Awhile
Selina Stone introduces the Black Christian spiritual practice of ‘Tarrying’, in which believers actively wait to experience a manifestation of God’s presence. It has much to teach us in the life of faith, she writes - we are all tarrying for something.
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I want to encourage us ALL
A reflection by incoming President Steve Finamore in which he introduces his themes for the coming year
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Why Hope?
In a world which seems to be spiralling more rapidly into chaos with every passing year, how can we pray with hope? Baptist scholar Helen Paynter offers three biblical reasons
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Creating a Culture of Prayer Videos
A conversation between Lynn Green and Pete Greig
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Creating a Culture of Prayer: a conversation
General Secretary Lynn Green met Pete Greig, the founder of 24-7 Prayer, and asked him a range of questions about prayer
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Summer 2024 edition
Articles from 'When we pray'
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Mission in the Metaverse 
What is the Metaverse? In what ways is Christ incarnate within this new world? Peter Phillips highlights these and other questions as we explore how we do mission in the digital age
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Together Magazine
Sharing stories of how our Baptist family is serving God in mission and ministry
Spring 2021 edition
Articles from 'Our Identity: listening to conversations'
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Summer 2021 edition
Articles from 'Pain and hope'
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Autumn 2021 edition
Articles from 'Order and chaos'
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Spring 2022 edition
Articles from 'Is it time for a new song?'
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Summer 2022 edition
Articles from 'Conversation and Connection'
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Autumn 2022 edition
Articles from 'Diverse people, common ground'
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Summer 2023 edition
Articles from 'God is at work'
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Autumn 2023 edition
Articles from 'Digital Revolution'
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Summer 2024 edition
Articles from 'When we pray'
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Autumn 2024 edition
Articles from 'Come, follow me'
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