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Simple Church: Global & Generational Movement

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 [...]

By |2017-03-20T08:35:52-05:00December 30th, 2009|Church, Church Planting, Discipleship, Leadership, Mission, Simple / Organic Church, TLM Blog|2 Comments
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Simple Church: House Church in China

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 [...]

By |2017-03-20T08:35:52-05:00December 18th, 2009|Church, Church Planting, Discipleship, Leadership, Mission, Simple / Organic Church, TLM Blog|3 Comments
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Simple Church – putting a number on it…

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 [...]

By |2017-03-20T08:35:52-05:00November 20th, 2009|Church, Church Planting, Mission, Relationships, Simple / Organic Church, TLM Blog|Comments Off on Simple Church – putting a number on it…
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Simple Church: The mystery of God and the Beauty of the Journey…

This is a great post by Katie Driver about the adventure of Simple/Organic Church.  It can also be found at CMA Resources.  The Journey of Discovery, by Katie Driver I have a lot of conversations with people who are struggling with the blind adventure of the simple, organic and missional church life. I hear things like; " I don't really know what to do!", "I wish someone could show me how this works!", "I tried that/that, [...]

By |2017-03-20T08:35:53-05:00November 13th, 2009|Church, Mission, Simple / Organic Church, TLM Blog|1 Comment
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