Dear Readers of en,
I was very grateful for the kind commendation of my new book Gospel DNA on page 25 of your May 2017 edition by Pastor Mark Troughton. I appreciate that his warm approval was only well meant, but it was sufficiently over-generous for me to feel obliged to comment. I would like to openly acknowledge the obvious but important truths that the 30 Co-mission ministries in London that he mentions (19 established churches and various pioneer ministries) are attributable a) to the extraordinary grace of our living Lord growing his churches by his living Word; and b) to the collective efforts of many servant-hearted leaders and congregation members across London. I raise this because we are clear throughout Co-mission not only that we are daily dependent upon God, but also that if we fail to give him the glory he deserves we may rightly face his discipline. For ‘neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything but only God who gives the growth’ (1 Corinthians 3).
Warm regards,
