Let us begin with a very important fact. The goal of the site is not to criticize traditional or institutional churches. Yes, some of the articles make comparisons and some of the writers do strongly question traditional practices. However, those of us...
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Some call them house churches. Some call them organic churches. Some
call them simple churches. We prefer to just call them churches. They
are rapidly multiplying, simple communities of believers, meeting in
homes, offices, campuses, wherever God is...
You are church before you do church. This is one of
the fueling insights of the missional church movement. This isn't a new
idea...but it is pretty provocative, especially when one considers its
implications. If we take Jesus at his word when he say...
Organic Church. I've been using this term for around
fifteen years now. Today it's become somewhat of a clay word, being
molded and shaped to mean a variety of different things by a variety of
different people.
| discussing the house church | ||||||
| Written by frailhumanity | ||||||
| Tuesday, July 03 2007 | ||||||
Since I was small, I have always been somewhat of a subversive person. As such, I am having trouble reconciling being an "edifying" member of Christ's body with discussing the tradeoffs between "building" churches and house churches in a frank manner. | ||||||
No matter what i do, I always finding myself at odds with authority. Ever since I became a Christian though, I have always been aware of this, and have gone to great lengths to avoid clashing with God's annointed. Not that I have a perfect record, but I think many would vouch that at least I've made a noble effort. As you can imagine, this circumstance of mine can causes problems when talking about substantive changes in how we execute "Church" though. In America, especially in the Southeast part (The most traditionalist/Christian part of America), talking about house churches/organic churches _is_ subversive. It scares people, and can cause churches and their members to become defensive. Honestly, I don't even blame them; it's hard for me to think that house churches aren't a threat to traditional "building" churches. Nonetheless, I don't see myself as the guy to start this dialogue with people in the Church where I am. | ||||||
