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Many Christians want to talk about their faith but quietly leave evangelism to the "experts." Jennifer Chan of City to City New York, who trains churches in evangelism and disciple-making, offers practical ways to help a whole congregation grow more confident in spiritual conversations. She begins by naming three forces shaping our cities: migration, post-secularization and digital life. She then looks at how Jesus engaged people in John 1, John 4 and Luke 10. From there she shares simple ways to form warm connections, along with "beginner and stretch moves": share your life, ask and listen, pray by name, and invite. These include a "four H's" listening exercise (history, heart, hurts and hopes) and a way to pray for friends through beauty, brokenness and hope in Christ. The session is built for pastors and leaders who want tools they can pass on to their people. BOLD 2026 was the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance conference, held October 12-13 at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

Should a church focus on sending its people out, or on giving people a reason to come in? Brian McMillan, Director of Church Planting, argues for both. He draws on 25 years at CenterPoint Church on Long Island, which he planted in 2002 with little more than a sense of calling and his parents' minivan, and which now has seven campuses. Brian makes the case that reaching people far from God has to be part of a church's DNA, not just a slogan. Being missional means training people to see themselves as missionaries, through proximity, posture and patterns of speech, while the church itself serves its community. Being attractional means being "seeker conscious, not seeker sensitive": fully yourself on Sunday, while warmly bringing guests along. He closes with two questions for pastors and church leaders: what is one change you can make in how you train your people, and one change in how you welcome those who come? BOLD 2026 was the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance conference, held October 12-13 at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

What if your mission field was right outside your front door? Dry Bar comedian and author Jonathan Weibel starts with the Great Commandment and what he calls the "theology of place" in Acts 17: God has put each of us where we are on purpose. He also shares how he came to faith at 19 through next-door neighbors who kept inviting him to dinner. Jonathan widens "neighbor" into three circles: the people next door, the global church, and the affinity groups we share work, hobbies and interests with. He then walks through three rhythms for living out the Great Commandment: Pray First, Love All and Invite Often. Along the way he offers practical tools, including a simple grid for praying for your closest neighbors by name and four kinds of invitation, from your table to the life of Christ. BOLD 2026 was the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance conference, held October 12-13 at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

Jesus sent his disciples out with an unusual order: "Heal the sick who are there, and tell them the kingdom of God has come near to you" (Luke 10:9). In this closing session, District Superintendent Rev. Michael Plunket, D.Min., calls the church to step into the spiritual authority Jesus has given. Mike begins with a story from 1993, when, as a struggling Presbyterian church planter, he cried out, "Heal me or take me home." He then teaches that a believer's authority is delegated, exercised in obedience, and backed by the One who sends, drawing on Matthew 10, Exodus 14 and Genesis 24. From there he explains binding and loosing, the spheres where God assigns authority, and the pattern in Jeremiah 1:10 of uprooting before planting. Drawing on John Wimber's Power Evangelism, he closes with stories from evangelistic campaigns in Uganda. His challenge is to step into your authority and activate your faith, because "a steering wheel is useless on a parked car." BOLD 2026 was the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance conference, held October 12-13 at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

In 1926, a West Texas couple close to losing their land learned they had been sitting on one of the largest oil fields in North America all along. Rev. Jonathan Schaeffer, D.Min., President of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, uses the Yates family's story to ask whether many believers, leaders included, live like spiritual paupers when Christ has made them spiritual billionaires. Working from 1 Corinthians 6:17-20, Jonathan traces "the biggest change of address in all of history." It runs from the cloud and fire over the tabernacle in Exodus 40, to Jesus' promise in John 14 that the Spirit would live in us, to the tongues of fire at Pentecost. As he puts it, "Jesus in you is better than Jesus with you." He draws out what it means to be the temple of the Holy Spirit: constant fellowship with Jesus, belonging fully to him, and carrying his authority wherever we go. The session closes with Jesus' invitation in John 7 for anyone who is thirsty to come and drink. BOLD 2026 was the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance conference, held October 12-13 at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

What does a missionary encounter look like in a post-Christian place? Rev. Dr. Stanley John, lead pastor of Sound Hope, begins with Lesslie Newbigin. After four decades in India, Newbigin found England harder ground than anything he had met there. He spent his retirement pastoring a struggling 20-member church across from a Birmingham prison. Stanley argues that Newbigin's overlooked genius was the local church. In our context, he says, missionary encounter will happen most often through pastoral faithfulness. From Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20, he draws three marks: proclaiming the whole counsel of God in public and from house to house, embracing shepherding as the defining verb of ministry, and serving with a pastoral heart, even with tears. He tells of weekly visits with an elderly congregant, and of a funeral where a guest who had never set foot in a church asked him to teach others how to do this. It's a word from the trenches, not the mountaintop, for anyone tempted to measure ministry by scale. BOLD 2026 was the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance conference, held October 12-13 at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

"The one who wins souls is wise." Proverbs 11:30 sits at the center of this opening session. District Superintendent Rev. Michael Plunket, D.Min., calls the Metro District to make soul winning its focus again, as a Spirit-filled "charismatic community of prophets." Drawing on Charles Spurgeon and 1 Corinthians 9, Mike reminds us that no one is argued into the kingdom. Souls are won through Spirit-empowered love, prayer and plain speech, and they are contested ground. He tells of a veteran missionary in Mexico City who saw fifty people come to faith within weeks of learning to "pull the net." He also recalls a shaky Four Spiritual Laws conversation on Daytona Beach that led a young man to Christ. Mike names what qualifies a soul winner: being saved, being settled in God's love, and genuinely loving the people you hope to reach. He offers a simple pattern for preaching toward decision (mind, heart and will) and closes with a challenge: say yes to the first nudge of the Spirit. BOLD 2026 was the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance conference, held October 12-13 at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, NJ. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

What does it take for a church, a family, or a whole district to be ready for a fresh move of God? In this complete series of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket lays out God’s blueprint for renewal across nine teachings. He draws on Scripture and on his study of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney, and Tim Keller. The series opens with three words, Resistance, Renewal, and Resilience, then moves through Isaac re-digging his father’s wells, the real community of Acts 2, and the twelve stones of Joshua 4 that help us remember what God has done. Mike shows how “Jesus plus nothing” transformed Saul into Paul, what happens when the Spirit falls on a church, and what it means to worship in spirit and truth. It ends with the proactive compassion of the Good Samaritan and an invitation to approach God as Father, not landlord. Along the way, Mike shares personal stories, from a near-fatal bout of malaria in Uganda to his young son giving away his allowance in Costa Rica. Blueprint for Revival is a teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

Jesus doesn't teach us to pray to a king, a judge, or even a friend. He teaches us to pray to a Father. In the final episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket unpacks that one word — Father — and how it changes everything about how we approach God. Mike draws out the difference between two ways of living in the same house: a tenant, whose place rests on a contract and whose currency is performance, and a child, whose place rests on relationship and whose currency is belonging. He shows how this reshapes not just what we can ask God for, but why we'd ever expect to be heard — because a child doesn't have to convince a Father who already knows and already loves. Mike closes with Corrie ten Boom's story of trusting her own father even amid the fear of Nazi-occupied Holland, and a simple, personal challenge: are you praying like a tenant tracking your performance, or a child who already belongs? Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

A lawyer asks Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" — not looking for information, but for a boundary, a place where love can stop. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket walks through the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) and shows why social compassion isn't optional for a Spirit-filled church — it's the fruit that proves the tree is alive. Mike unpacks how Jesus deliberately flips the lawyer's whole framework, putting the despised outsider in the position of power and the religious insider in the position of powerlessness. He traces this same call through Matthew 25's sheep and goats and James's blunt warning that faith without works is dead — not as a way to earn favor with God, but as visible evidence of a justification that's already complete in Christ. The episode closes with a simple, personal story: Mike's five-year-old son giving away his entire allowance to a homeless man in Costa Rica, understanding something many adults miss — "that's all right, Daddy. You have more." Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

You were built with what Mike Plunket calls an "adoration apparatus" — you were made to worship. The only real question is what you'll worship. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike turns to Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4) to answer three questions: what is worship, how do we worship, and what does worship require of us? Mike shows that worship, at its root, is "worth-ship" — recognizing something's worth and responding to it, the way a new mother responds to her newborn without being taught how. He offers a simple diagnostic: what makes time disappear, what you worry about most, and where your money goes when things compete for it all reveal what you actually worship, whether or not it's what you'd say you worship. The heart of the episode is Jesus' call to worship "in spirit and truth" — what Mike calls order and ardor, structure and fire held together. He closes with a question Jesus put to a woman who came to a well expecting judgment: what obstacles are we putting up, when God wants so much to give us Himself? Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

Three thousand people baptized in one day. That's not a strategy — that's a visitation. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket sits with a question most of us skip when we read Acts 2: not "how do we admire this?" but "what would it look like if this happened to us?" Mike shows that revival isn't better programs or getting the culture right — it's the Holy Spirit making Jesus real, not theoretical, to a people and through them to a watching world. Drawing on Tim Keller's "five vitamins" for a living church (teaching, koinonia, worship, evangelism, and social concern), he makes a sobering point: a church can have all five and still be dead without the Spirit's presence animating them together. The episode lands on a single foundation underneath everything else — a righteousness not our own. Mike draws on Richard Lovelace's observation that most professing Christians, even with sound theology, quietly shift the weight of their acceptance with God onto their own performance instead of resting entirely on Christ's finished work. Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

We read Acts 2 and think: I want that. Three thousand people saved in a day. A community so marked by love they sold what they had so no one would go without. But in this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket asks the question we usually skip past: how did it happen? Mike traces a pattern that shows up throughout church history — crisis, desperate seeking after God, and only then, visitation. Applied to a crisis like racial injustice, he argues the church can't program, manage, or apologize its way to the "no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free" unity Scripture describes. The only well the Spirit fills is one kept clean of "rubbish" — the quiet, unconscious belief that we produce our own salvation through effort, record, or respectability. Using the transformation of Saul into Paul, Mike shows how the gospel of "Jesus plus nothing" doesn't just change what someone believes — it dismantles both self-righteous contempt and fear at their shared root, because both are fed by the same lie: that we have to earn our worth. Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

Why did God ask Israel to stack up twelve ordinary stones the moment they crossed the Jordan on dry ground? In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket looks at Joshua 4 and a truth Scripture keeps circling back to: we forget. Give it one generation and the miraculous becomes a memory. Give it three, and it's gone. Mike traces how this forgetfulness is really a symptom of something deeper — a heart that's drifted from its center in God — and how even our Bible reading can quietly become self-focused instead of an encounter with who God actually is. He points to the Northampton revival of 1735 and Martyn Lloyd-Jones's later warning that fear, control, and a discomfort with anything "messy" can talk us out of ever experiencing the Spirit's work at all. Mike closes with a personal story from 2009 — a near-fatal bout of malaria in Uganda that became one of his own "twelve stones" — and a challenge: what is your Jordan, the place where God already parted the waters, that you've quietly let yourself forget? Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

Every survey ever done on why people come back to a church after their first visit says the same thing: they felt loved. Not impressed. Not entertained. Loved. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket shows why that isn't a marketing strategy — it's part of God's blueprint, drawn up long before we got here. Walking through Acts 2:42-47, Mike unpacks what real koinonia (fellowship) looks like: unity that isn't uniformity, gifts that fit together like stones cut and shaped at the quarry before ever reaching the temple, and a love that makes the first move toward repentance and forgiveness rather than waiting for the other person to go first. The question isn't whether a church has fellowship — it's how deep people are willing to go with one another. This episode closes with a simple, personal question: who is God asking you to move toward this week? Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.