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Victor Choudhrie, who has facilitated a massive house church planting movement in India, has described his thoughts on what God is doing today around the world.  This is a very inspiring read (as well as challenging)! The Decade That Changed The Church: The longest lasting Revival in Church history took place during the Communist persecution…

One of the things I enjoy about offering an online course on Simple/Organic church is that is keeps me in touch with people who are discovering many of the principles and joys for the first time. Here is a quote from a recent participant who is finding renewal and excitement in simple church: What we…

Neil Cole's workshop, called "Greenhouse" will be taking place in our own local area: San Luis Obispo, California, on March 5-7.  Neil (author of Organic Church) does a great job of orienting people toward the principles of organic church life and church reproduction.  You can find more information here along with more details here: Download…

I continue to reflect on the “stages in the journey of simple church life” that I outlined in a previous post by looking at each stage one at a time. Since our old paradigm of church life has often revolved around the Sunday morning gathering, we often find ourselves on a quest to discover what…

I am offering an interactive, online course on the Simple/House Church Revolution.  This course will be looking at the basics and is probably most useful to people who are newer to some of these concepts or fairly fresh into the transition (a year or two, perhaps). Enrollment is limited to 15 participants, so it is…

There is an interesting post here quoting from Joel News about the growth of house churches around the world.  This report came out of a house church conference in Delhi, India: "Conference reports indicate that, from very small beginnings, in many nations fairly sizeable house church movements have emerged, including on the continents of Africa…

I want to reflect the “stages in the journey of simple church life” that I outlined in a previous post by looking at each stage one at a time. The first stage is: Letting Go of Old Paradigms of Church Life. Frankly, this first stage is much of what I have been blogging about right…

I have been reflecting, for some time, on the stages that I have seen and experienced in the simple/house church journey. I would love to have your feedback on this to help clarify and further illuminate this subject. When I speak of “stages” I do NOT speak of progressive steps.  I am not suggesting that…

I am just back from Africa and have had no time for a new post… but I wanted to pass on this article from Katie Driver's blog "Backseat Driver" (that was also reprinted at CMA Resources). She has done a beautiful job of describing the adventure of organic church.. The Journey of Discovery, by Katie…

My daughter-in-law sent me the following email regarding simple church and her ten-year-old son, Skyler.  I thought y'all would appreciate her experience and thoughts: As a mom on this untraditional journey, I gotta tell ya…I am always struggling with the guilt (I know, no surprise there!) of not "doing" enough church stuff for my kids.…