Month: July 2013

Church, by definition is not a building, not a place of worship, not an organization. As Neil Cole likes to say: “We are the church.  Where we go the church goes.” “God does not dwell in temples made by human hands.”  Stephen, before being martyred. Church is not a come-and-sit service to attend. “The church’s…

I asked some friends to help me compile the resources that were most helpful to them when they were first learning about simple/organic church life.  Some of them were kind enough to mention this blog as well as my book.  But this list represents ten other key resources mentioned in no particular order. Books: 1.…

Church gatherings arise out of the work of ministry, not the other way around. The old way: Gather a core group to start a church, then mobilize the church to go and reach out among friends and neighbors.  Finally, invite those you reach back to ‘the church.’ The new way: Invest in building relationships with…

“The most exciting time in my life was when I was part of an apostolic team serving God in a Middle Eastern country with others.”  My missionary friend was lamenting that, now that his assignment brought him back to the U.S., he no longer has that sense of being part of an apostolic team—and it…

Someone said: It’s one thing to get the person out of the institution, it’s another thing to get the institution out of the person.  It is difficult to get religious thinking out of our inner system.  But I want to work at this with the same fervency as Jesus who said: Don’t be like those…