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A Spiritual Family – Organic Church IV

February 24, 2011 in Church,Leadership,Missional Communities with Comments Off

This Week I’m posting some words for discussion from Neil Cole’s Organic Church.

IV - When you imagine the amount of resources, energy and time invested in a service held only one day a week, it is remarkable. With all the importance placed on this event, you would expect there to be a lot of scriptural directives to make sure people get it right. But if you search all of the New Testament looking for the commands or injunctions having to do with this important weekly event, you will find them sadly missing. Instead you will find verses, chapters, and entire books that speak to how we are to live together as a spiritual family (Page 40)

So Complicated – Organic Church III

February 23, 2011 in Bible,Leadership,Missional Communities with Comments Off

This Week I’m posting some words for discussion from Neil Cole’s Organic Church.

II - “The conventional church has become so complicated and difficult to pull off that only a rare person who is a professional can do it every week. Many people feel that to lower the bar of how church is done is close to blasphemous because the Church is Jesus’ expression of the Kingdom on earth…This results in a passive church whose members come and act more like spectators than empowered agents of God’s kingdom. (Page 27)

Lower the Bar. No, Raise It – Organic Church II

February 22, 2011 in Church,Leadership,Missional Communities with Comments Off

This Week I’m posting some words for discussion from Neil Cole’s Organic Church.

II - “We want to lower the bar of how church is done and raise the bar of what it means to be a disciple.” If Church is simple enough that everyone can do it and is made up of people who take up their cross and follow Jesus at any cost, the result will be church that empower the common Christian to do the uncommon works of God. (Page 27)

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