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I have a new friend, Brian, who recently told his pastor that God told him to leave that church and start a house church. I met this friend because he has been visiting one of our house churches to get a feel for what we are about before launching out on his own. He has…

I often like to remind myself (and others) that even though we talk about “house church,” that that’s really not the point at all. It’s not about house church, traditional church, institutional church, organic church, simple church, or emerging church. It’s really not about “how we do church.” The early Christians were not sitting around…

We like to do a “Family Forming” get-together in the early stages of a new house church. This is an “exercise” that builds community as we talk about what it means to live the spiritual life in interdependence. We build this get-together around three questions: 1. In what ways do we choose to be responsible…

I’m still unpacking some thoughts about leadership that are in seminal form. We all know that leadership is influence and that biblical leadership is based one hundred percent on servanthood. We also know that leadership in churches is easily transformed into manipulation and used to serve self-seeking ambitions (both conscious and unconscious). Yet, we recognize…

Here is an article posted on a site that I’ve been enjoying called CellChurch Info: House Church: A Bible Study by Dr. Victor Choudhrie Dr. Choudhrie is a prominent surgeon in India, whom the Lord challenged in 1993 to lay down his professional life to establish the church in Madra Pradesh. Starting from scratch, the…

Someone recently emailed me asking for a brief account of my background and what I’m currently up to. I thought it might be good to write a short summary here. Some of my past story can be read at my first post. And my core value (relationship) is blogged about here and explained in more…

I’m enjoying reading about a new friend’s journey in simple church from Colorado. He has a blog called milkfusion and you can read some of his story and background from the links on the left sidebar “Wrestling with church” and “A church story”.

I am trying to understand what it means to be truly missional in today’s world. I consider it a huge topic. The following excerpt from BlahOnline is a good starting point for this discussion. He starts by saying that one of the flaws of today’s church is that it is “attractional”: By attractional, I mean…

There’s a wonderful post by Alexander Campbell regarding “Campus Church Networks“: simple churches reproducing on college campuses.

The following is an email sent to me from John White… It’s regarding John Arnott’s term: “Supernatural Church”… and it’s regarding two predictions that John makes… read all the way to the end: A recent email from Felicity Dale pointed me to an article by Arnott in the recent edition of the “Spread the Fire”…