Free Books!
Whether you're pastoring a church, leading a home fellowship or just someone trying to follow Jesus, our growing series of Simple Kingdom books provides you with keys that can help you advance the kingdom of God. Rooted in the teachings and practices of John Wimber and the early Vineyard Movement, and validated by decades of our own personal experience building and planting home fellowships and helping new church plants, our books are freely available for download in PDF format and you can also read them in their entirety online.
New book coming soon!
Our next book Simple Kingdom: Word and Spirit is now underway and we have decided to make its draft chapters available in preview (unedited) form for those who are interested in reading them. Currently available to read are the following:
More chapters of this book will be made available here soon. And once our book is finished we'll make it available in its entirety as a free PDF download. In the meantime be sure to check out our other free books below on the topics of discipleship, worship and home fellowships. And be sure to sign up for our newsletter if you'd like to be informed when additional chapters and other articles are published on our website!
Simple Kingdom: Discipleship
What does it mean to follow Jesus and become his disciple? How does one grow as a disciple? How can we disciple others, and who should do this?
In the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 the Lord instructed his followers to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to observe everything he commanded them. To fulfill this task we first need to understand the true purpose and goal of discipleship. Simple Kingdom: Discipleship attempts to deal with this subject simply, and Biblically.
You can
read our book online or download a
free PDF copy. There is also a
PDF Study Guide intended for use in small groups which has questions and exercises designed to help readers grow in understanding of what it means to follow Jesus and to apply what they have learned in their lives.
Simple Kingdom: Worship
What is worship? How do you lead worship in a small group setting? How does one write a worship song that can lead others towards greater intimacy with God?
The aim of Simple Kingdom: Worship is to help the church recapture the simplicity and intimacy of the songs and approach to worship that characterized the early years of the Vineyard movement.
You can read our book online or download a free PDF copy. Our book also includes a selection of fresh new worship songs written by ourselves which are used to illustrate various aspects of the craft of songwriting. And the Songs page of our website has free PDF leadsheets you can download with melody, lyrics and chords for each song in our book and also embedded SoundCloud links so you can listen to recordings of them.
Simple Kingdom: Home Fellowships
John Wimber once said, "The most crucial missing element in the church today is learning how to love. And you can't do it in large churches and large situations. We have several thousand people that gather on Sunday in our fellowship. And you know, you're not gonna learn to love somebody you don't know who's sitting next to you. You've gotta do it in small housgroups. That's why we're so committed in our fellowship that every member should be in a small housegroup."
We believe that home fellowships are the place where church really happens, where the "body of Christ" becomes an experiential reality and not just a theological concept. The aim of Simple Kingdom: Home Fellowships is to get you thinking about what "church" is and what "doing church" should really look like, and then show how you can "do church" by starting home fellowships. You can read our book online or download a free PDF copy.
