In an earlier post (over a year ago) I mentioned a simple church that met in a pub. Recently I received this comment:
You might be interested in Christ Church Brighton, we have a meeting in a pub every Sunday evening.
The following website provides more information: http://www.christchurchbrighton.org.
Additionally, if you receive the Friday Fax (weekly from Wolfgang Simson-click here if you would like to subscribe), then you saw his article about simple churches being planted on college campuses and an evangelistic event that took place on the campus of UCLA:
This past Wednesday at UCLA we experienced a taste of heaven on earth, but it came with a cost. As we walked up onto campus there were thousands of students walking up and down Bruin Walk. Normally, we would sit at the patch of grass where there were not many onlookers (free speech area), but on Wednesday the main steps at the top of Bruin Walk were open – we took it by faith. As we sat on the steps we began to pray…
Has not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness, and doesn’t he use apparently foolish things to confound the wise? So we stood there worshipping God, not so that the students would hear us, but so that God would hear us. It was difficult. We were distracted by all sorts of thoughts, and one of us felt sick. Despite that, we sang for two hours, until we sensed that the time had come to preach…
My voice threatened to fail me, but I sensed that God was there. More and more students stopped to listen – a group here, a group of Asian students there, another group of African American students who had been listening to music from their boom boxes only moments before. They all listened as I preached the Gospel; at least 120 students, for almost half an hour…
Read the full story here as well as other stories taking place on college campuses. You might also take a look at the rest of Jaeson Ma’s website which is chock full of simple church principles along with an apostolic vision to reach his generation (13-30 year-olds) and plant churches throughout college campuses!
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2 responses to “Church in a Pub; Church on Campus”
We have sinned greatly against the Lord. We understand not the purpose of God in Christ. For we say we preach a gospel which is not the gospel. All the scriptures testify of the Christ’s death, burial and resurrection, and Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ.(1 Cor 15) We preach the word by many themes: home church, doctrines such as faith, prosperity and every manner of law and understanding of man’s mind. There is only one theme that the scriptures of the prophets are preached by the Spirit of the Father that only zealously testifies of Christ- the death, burial and resurrection of the Christ-the eternal purpose of God in Christ Jesus. Apart from God granting grace to this crooked generation and revealing this precious gospel we are without hope. If perhaps God grants grace, for it is most certainly His chosing and not ours, cleave to this gospel I preach. I cannot speak of others, but test the spirit for I declare Jesus is the Christ and has come in the flesh fulfilling all, not some, of the scriptures of the prophets. The prophets and the law prophesy until John. Search ye the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life, it is they that testifies of me, saith Jesus. Lord, have mercy on us, for we have sinned greatly against you, not for any righteousness of our own, but for who you are- eternally merciful, impartial toward all men, kind and longsuffering, full of grace and love in Christ Jesus.
Daniel of Detroit
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You are right, Daniel of Detroit. We have sinned greatly against the Lord. We say we follow Him, yet as a nation divorce, abortion, adultery of the heart, lust of the eyes, and even rejection of our brother (yes, even the Jew, to whom the Oracles of God were entrusted) are rampant. May God have mercy on our souls and teach us the soundness in seeing Christ, and His death, burial and resurrection alone in the OT, the Scriptures of the Prophets. The Gentiles are justified through faith, whereas the believing Jew is justifies by faith, according the apostle Paul (whose interpretation of Christ being the fulfillment of all the scriptures is either fact or myth with no middle ground). Christ became a curse for us? How does one come to that conclusion? Christ learned obedience through the things He suffered? How does one come to these conclusions unless Christ came to fulfill and not destroy the Law and Prophets? The son in Proverbs is the Son of God! It is Christ who died! The early church had the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament as it is called by the Christian Church. That is all they had and from that Paul instructed the preachers of that day to Preach Christ. Period. Why do we forsake our own mercy? Why do we need quail when manna is all we will every need? May the One who desires all men to be saved see His desire fulfilled. We have received the Grace of God in vain. We need your mercy Oh Lord. We need your Mercy.