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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.
| Whose Kingdom are we building? | ||||||
| Written by JesusFollower | ||||||
| Sunday, September 30 2007 | ||||||
Good Thoughts "Questions to discern if someone is building their own kingdom, or Christ's. Originally posted on House Church Discussion List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hcdl 3/9/2002 Since I shared a few my thoughts yesterday about those who can help equip the body, I thought I'd share with you some questions I ask to sort out whether someone is really passionate about HIS kingdom or is he/she building their own? 1. Do he/she come primarily talking about a HIM or about an IT (meeting, method, principle)? 2. Did he/she help us learn to listen to God together, or did he/she tell us what to do so we wouldn't need to hear from him ourselves? 3. Did he/she leave us freer to trust Jesus more, or were we overwhelmed with principles we needed to apply? 4. Were we brought together in our ability to love each other more, or were we fragmented over methods and theologies? 5. Could they still affirm people who didn�t see things the same way the did, or were they defensive and distant when questioned? These work for me... " Wayne Jacobsen | ||||||
