Colin’s ministry life spans 46 years and, included in the various ministry roles he has done is that of a Church planter. This role has shaped much of his commitment ever since. He remains convinced that a discipleship based Church planting strategy will bring healing and transformation to Australia.

Professional Services
After a lifetime of serving and leading among Australian churches, Colin is aware of the moment that has come to the church.
Sometimes leaders need coaching and sometimes they need mentoring and Colin offers his discernment to bring what the leader may need at the moment that they need it.
Strategic Reporting
Colin offers reports that will help those who are supporting Church planting to see their role and understand how they are to act through the phases of development that new churches encounter.
Training & Lecturing
Strengthen the development of leaders and teams by preparing and training on matters that are identified as need areas for leaders and teams.
My Journey
For the past 15 years I have been researching Church planting in one way or another exclusively in Australian contexts. Now as that research has concluded in the form of a PhD thesis, I felt the urge to bring what I could from my research into a book that might be useful for more and more people who follow Jesus.
Basically from what I have seen, we have built the assumption that Church planting needs experts and strong leaders and teams to make it happen and as a result most disciples of Jesus simply do not see themselves as people who might get involved in something like that. And, of course, leaders are involved. But going forward, it will be a discipleship-based operating system that is going to become what will not only make more planting likely but that more and more of these new churches will become able to multiply as a matter of course.

What I believe is that discipleship is the genius in the Kingdom and without lessening our commitment to best practise for leadership, team, contextualisation, vision, strategy and support processes, our prioritising of the task to make disciples who make disciples will become the first among all our commitments.
I pray that this book might help more and more of us as disciples of Jesus to see that we need not leave it to experts but act like disciples who have a calling to go into all the world.
Colin Stoodley has gifted us a clear and urgent book. In a time when the Church desperately needs to rediscover its sentness, The Genius in the Kingdom reminds us that the core organizing principle of ecclesia is not programming, but discipleship. It’s grounded in experience, shaped by solid research, and offers practical insight for anyone serious about mission in today’s world. If you care about the future of the Church in the West, read this. Then read it again.