Here is my ‘top 5’ wish list of what I would like to try in a home church. 1. Build a community around spiritual formation by making disciples (learners) rather than adopting a traditional church format and trying to make disciple-making fit into it. Decide what best accomplishes disciple-making, draw a line around that and […]
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The other day I found a toy tractor in the china cabinet. I thought, “This is the way I feel in church, like I don’t belong here.” There is nothing wrong with the tractor or the china for that matter, it is that they just don’t go together. A tractor is meant to be: used […]
Mobile Discipleship is a creedal, non-exclusive and learner-driven (minimalist) structure. Creedal means we gather around: “Jesus Christ is Lord”. Participants may not yet embrace that belief but they need to know that this is why we call it church. Non-exclusive means people can concurrently belong to any faith community (or not). We want to work […]
Why call it ‘church’? 1. Church means a gathering not a building. Jesus said two or three gathered in His name constituted a quorum as He is present. a. If we argue that a church meeting has to be big in order to be legitimate, then how big is big? Should it be every believer […]
I think it is very interesting where Jesus said “For where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them’. Isn’t it fortunate that he didn’t say 200 or 300, or 2000 or 3000! I like big celebrations but do we need to make every week into one? […]