I’ve also started on Felicity Dale’s ‘An Army of Ordinary People’. I’ve only read the first two chapters, but it looks like being a great book already. It opens with Hank’s story. Hank is a man who used to say very little, but who dared to try starting a very simple church with some people he knew. Those people told others about their experiences, and Hank’s family got wind of it too, and Hank just kept on starting churches!
The second story is Tony and Felicity’s. It is a little more complicated than Hank’s, but again tells of people struggling with God and what he is doing, and really stumbling into something old but new.
These first two chapters were very encouraging – not because they provide methods, or try to say “It’s easy, go ahead”, but because the stories are about the sort of people we all know. If they can do it, so can we! (With a little help from God 😉 , but that’s what the others needed too.)