Blog - David Broodryk

Thoughtful

One Billion Doors

Sometime before dawn, a woman in Lagos wraps her child and steps out of a structure she built herself from salvaged zinc and reclaimed timber...

The townships are ready

We trained 100 leaders that weekend in KwaZulu-Natal. It was November of 2011. The vision was clear. The training was solid. The hunger seemed real. But by the end, only one person leaned in...

Following a Hebrew Jesus

From the outside, a well-taught faith can look healthy. Full notebooks, underlined Bibles, quick answers. We have never had more access to knowledge about God...

Greek Faith, Hebrew Jesus

Why the church's disciple-making crisis has deeper roots than we think... "Something was wrong. Not with the information; the information was sound...

I am a Westerner

My name is David, and I am a Westerner. I never chose to be one. I was born into it. Raised in it. Shaped by it in ways I didn’t even realize...

Spiritual Warfare and the Movement of Jesus

Most people hear “spiritual warfare” and picture dramatic prayers, dark maps over cities, and a kind of supernatural activism that feels like a thriller. I think we’ve often missed the point...

I’ve noticed something strange in the way many believers use the word “kingdom.” They say it with a warm, religious tone, like holding a mug of tea on a cold, rainy day. “The kingdom of God.” It sounds deep. It sounds safe. It sounds like the kind of phrase you can repeat for decades without anything in your life changing...

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Provocative

Ecclesiology as Flow

“What do you mean by church?” The question was not asked out of curiosity, but challenge. I was in a room full of church leaders presenting church as movement. I answered his challenge with a counter challenge...

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