It is always comforting to find people and things that let you know you are not journeying alone. Outside of Jesus being the only way to the Father, I don't usually suggest that there is a uniform pattern in life other than we were created to grow and hopefully we will do so til we die. In the case of the article below by Roger Thoman at simplechurchjournal.com I am not saying every person who [...]
I stopped by my Grand Mother's house today to pick up some flowers she wanted us to have. Granny Hobbs is 91 now and for as long as I can remember she has given everything away. My daughter asked me, "Why is she giving us that stuff?" Well she also included a case of Yoohoo, Sunny D and cookies. I told my daughter, "Granny Hobbs came into this world with nothing and she will leave with nothing", [...]
After the last post concerning the House Church Movement in China, I ran across this article at World Mission Impact: "200 Christian leaders from 40 nations met in New Delhi, India, Nov 11-14th, 2009, to explore the scope and significance of house-based discipling communities and emerging house church movements worldwide. Known best from the history of the underground house churches in China that report by now an estimated 100 million members, a similar phenomenon has [...]
As I sit here in a little coffee shop in Wilmington, NC and reflecting on the last details to finish today for the Christmas Gathering of our House Church tomorrow evening, I am struck with a humbled sense of gratitude. In all the business and planning we do for our churches in the West, we can lose sight or maybe never see the essence of what church really is. We can so easily take the Church [...]
Ever feel like you are the only one? Simple Church, Organic Church or House Church is no longer thought of as some fringe, obscure or illegitimate expression of the Church made up of hippies and those too strange to belong to traditional christian churches. Let me take that back... some of us are strange. However, there is a longing amongst many believers today for something more than the status quo, more than church attendance. There is a growing desire [...]
