Living Fire : Advancing God’s Kingdom in Challenging Places

by Aychi B.R., Dave Coles

What if I told you the gospel is being proclaimed and eagerly received in some of the world’s hardest places? And told you not only that it’s happening, but also how it’s happening?
Despite much opposition, faithful servants of Christ are boldly seeking and finding people ready for spiritual change. Whole families and groups are coming to faith, not just individuals. Disciples are making more disciples and new churches are planting more new churches.
How is rapid kingdom multiplication spreading in such challenging places? Living Fire describes 22 factors that enable these movements to ignite, accelerate and sustain the advance of the gospel among unreached African peoples.
The stories illustrating these 22 factors will encourage and inspire you! And God’s Spirit may highlight ideas you can apply in your own life and ministry, for His glory.

242 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 24, 2025

Reviews

[Denis Beausejour · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for those wanting to make disciple makers

A deeply personal book that shares insights flowing from obedience over decades. You will come away with the principles, practices, and a process to making reproducing disciple makers in your context. God is faithful to be with us as we obey him in the call we all share: to make disciples who will obey Jesus and make reproducing waves of disciples.

[Justin Hargrave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Movements explained practically & humbly! Living Fire is a simple, straightforward, story-heavy book which both testifies to one way in which God is moving in the world, and also explains in simple, accessible language how it’s happening. Written with humility and grace from personal experience - recommended!

[James Kelley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dave Coles and Aychi B.R. contribute in two significant ways in the book Living Fire, Advancing God's Kingdom in Challenging Places.

First, Aychi's story is worth telling for its own sake because it represents what God is doing repeatedly in the 21st Century. God is bringing people to a relationship with Him and including them in His kingdom work that represents His beauty and glory, both of which are recorded in Ayhchi's story. Perhaps the most glorious part of Aychil's journey with Jesus is that he has been involved in "greater things" (John 14:2) through the multiplication of the seed of Jesus in and through Aychi. Many have come to know Jesus through Aychi's work and network.

But, Aychi is quick to acknowledge God's role in this process and that leads me to the second aspect of Living Fire, which is "advancing God's Kingdom in Challenging Places. This book is essentially a master's class in making disciples among challenging people groups and places in Aychi's region of Africa. God has built a team in the network that Aychi leads and Aychi and Coles provide a thorough and "meaty" account of how this disciple-making movement team has matured and grown. Case studies and examples fill the pages of the book that not only make this an interesting read but are a gold mine of wisdom for anyone who is serious about being a part of fulfilling the great commission.

Coles has partnered with Aychi to give the Body of Christ another treasure. It is worth reading for many reasons but especially as a testimony to our great God and as a tool to help us learn from a brother in Christ who has been a faithful disciple of Jesus for many years.

I thank God for these brothers and the effort they put into this testimony, Living Fire.

I highly recommend this book that joins a pantheon of excellent accounts of Church Planting Movements in the 21st Century.

[Bud Houston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book that inspires, encourages, equips, and moves you toward action. This is a great resource to cast vision for what God is doing and invites the reader to join Him where they live, work, and play