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I like to talk about church planting… and we have quite a bit going on, right now, in this area. But I have become so much more aware, recently, that it’s not at all about planting churches… but it is about planting the Kingdom life among people… It’s about people… it’s about God’s life being…

Last Tuesday night was our second time gathering in a restaurant for a new “church.” It is turning out to be a wonderful “marketplace” experience. Jim and Marilyn, owners of the restaurant, wanted to begin meeting on Tuesday nights. The restaurant is closed that evening, they have a day off on Wednesday, so it was…

I suppose every movement is a reaction, to some extent, to that which exists. We would like to think that when we react to an extreme that we are finding the place of balance. Hopefully we do. But when the pendulum swings too far one way, it is very difficult to find the balance without…

Here’s a radical article… Worth the read… Printed at WaterCarriers.

More on “The Insider”: Chapter 3– “purposefully invest deeply in a few individuals” If we are not accurately seeing the kingdom of God at work (chapter 2) then we are probably not putting our efforts in the right areas. Jesus used many agricultural stories and metaphors because they accurately portray how the kingdom of God…

Bill Hays wrote me this email: Hey Roger, Just popping in to say hi and ask for some advice on beginning blogging. I know nothing about it and had to look it up in a dictionary. I have really enjoyed yours and the idea of sharing thoughts with others is enticing. Not sure how much…

Here’s a repeat from a post dated Feb. 18– just wanted to share it again: Why Change Church? Alan Creech seeks to answer the important question, “why we do church a different way.” His response is this: We have looked and we have seen the deep lack of real transformation going on in the Body…

From Rachelle over at Truth Seeker– Things I read in the Bible today that I swear to God were not in there before Eugene Peterson learned how to type: “I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretntious slogans…

We don’t downplay music in our gatherings but we have tried to re-learn worship as being first about a lifestyle and secondly about a heart that is longing for God. We call this heart-driven worship. We developed this term out of the conviction that most worship, as in “times of worship,” is music driven. In…

I just couldn’t resist re-quoting this quote as posted at WaterCarriers on the pastor system: “There is nothing wrong about the pastor system, so far as I can see, except that it is not in the New Testament. Anything else that is not in the New Testament is as bad as the pastor, or the…