For those who are interested, this past week in our house church we looked at two blogs. The first one, “poultrygeist”, encourages us to not think that we can’t serve God because of some limiting factor in our lives. The second article (“Have You Heard?”) is great for starting discussions and making us think about
Category: Ecclesiology / Church
Trees
We have been discussing what church is and what it should therefore look like. In doing so, we have contrast it with the institutional church. Many people have difficulty with the criticisms of the institutional church, which is of course not surprising if we have been closely tied and committed to it. A natural route
Church Recap
Our the past couple of weeks in our fellowship, we’ve been discussing how the church is organic, a living thing, born out of the Spirit of God, not an organization or machine we build ourselves. I won’t go into this much more here, as I have already blogged about it relatively recently. I will say
Communion
As I’ve been discussing, I am participating in a home fellowship. I have mentioned that we haven’t arrived yet, that we are merely in the beginning of a journey. I have recognized that what we are trying to do is generally different than what anyone has seen before, and therefore almost no one, including those
Further Thoughts on Church
Those of you who have been following me know that I am part of a home fellowship, and have some thoughts about church that are different than what is most common. I wanted to say a few things about this. First, to my knowledge only one of my friends so far has read one of
Christian Church
(Note: This is my best understanding of this subject from what I have heard, but I don’t guarantee it is without error.) I recently delved into the confusing subject which is the history of the church movement that I grew up in and was involved in for most of my life. The church I grew
Rethinking Church
(Note: I have written the following post in response to comments shared on this post.) I once heard it said that every generation needs their own reformation. The idea is that we never quite get it all right, so we need to keep improving rather than thinking we’ve got it made. You are correct in
Instructions on Church in the New Testament?
For a long time I used to think that Jesus and the apostles never laid out specific instructions on how to do church. Recently I’m beginning to learn that perhaps they did, but it’s so different from what we have today that I couldn’t see it. Jesus and the apostles never lay out an order
Anabaptists
I found this article on the website of a local Mennonite Church. It seems to me to be a good, interesting and well written introduction to the history of Anabaptists and the reformation. Anabaptists means re-baptizers, and comes from the fact that the Anabaptists held that a person had to choose to be a follower
What is the Alternative to Institutional Church?
A question was recently posed as a comment on my review of Pagan Christianity?. I decided to answer the question here as a separate blog post. Shawn asks, “I’ve added [“Pagan Christianity?”] and “Reimagining Church” to my reading list. What are your thoughts on what we should do? Since clearly church isn’t done this way,