• Why was this site started?

    slide06.jpgLet us begin with a very important fact. The goal of the site is not to criticize traditional or institutional churches. Yes, some of the articles make comparisons and some of the writers do strongly question traditional practices. However, those of us...

  • What is 'simple church'?

    slide02.jpgSome call them house churches. Some call them organic churches. Some call them simple churches. We prefer to just call them churches. They are rapidly multiplying, simple communities of believers, meeting in homes, offices, campuses, wherever God is...

  • Being a Missional Church

    slide01.jpgKeys to missional community: 1. Go to the people 2. People of Peace. 3. Living Kingdom lives. One of the hallmarks of the simple church movement is that it seeks to be what the church, in fact, is: missional. Jesus went everywhere proclaiming and de...

  • Incarnational Practices

    slide05.jpgYou are church before you do church. This is one of the fueling insights of the missional church movement. This isn't a new idea...but it is pretty provocative, especially when one considers its implications. If we take Jesus at his word when he say...

  • What is an Organic Church?

    slide04.jpg Organic Church. I've been using this term for around fifteen years now. Today it's become somewhat of a clay word, being molded and shaped to mean a variety of different things by a variety of different people.

    T. Austi...

Who's In Your Simple Church?
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
facial_expressions_book_cov.jpgJ.D. Payne has done a study of house and simple churches, specifically those that he calls “missional house churches.”  Many interesting tidbits are found in this study.  For example…

Payne identifies four types of people who are typically involved in house churches.  I think looking at these categories of people can be very informative and provoke some excellent conversations about our own simple/house churches.
 
When People or Churches Feel Bogged Down
Monday, 25 August 2008
frustrated-02.jpgSooner or later some, most, or all of the  members of a simple church will become dissatisfied with the gathering.

“It’s not worshipful enough.”  “We seem to be in a rut.”  “The needs of my children aren’t being met.”  “We are not reaching out.”  “We need to be more open with each other and closer.”  “We don’t seem to be going anywhere.”

Sometimes, just verbalizing the longings or dissatisfactions are enough to catalyze the church to move in some new directions or make new commitments.  The beauty of simple church is that we can change course nearly instantaneously.  We want to reach out more?  Let’s plan something for next week!  We want to focus more on the children?  Let’s do it today!
 
Who Will Go For Us?
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
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We now have available on our site another marvelous resource - the book of missionary - Igor Zyryanov "Who Will Go For Us?" (It is accessible now in our Resource section in English and Russian ).

It is an inspiring challenge concerning cross-cultural missionary work – using Igor’s example of service to the western Buryats in Siberia. If you have a heart for missions and reaching people, you will find this book to be very profitable and encouraging.

Igor has written a practical and interesting book, sharing many stories and experiences of seeing God work in what has been a historically occultic environment filled with intense spiritual battle. We are sure you will be blessed and will learn much as you read about Igor and his wife’s labor of love among the Buryat people.

Book in Word-format.

 
How Much Do Sermons Affect Lives?
Thursday, 14 August 2008
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Editors Note:

This is another one of the articles that will really challenge some of us, particularly those who love to preach. You will discover the article is not against the preaching of the Word, but instead asks us to seriously question our overemphasis on it.

I am aware of many churches where the Word is taught passionately and accurately through sermons 3 times a week, and yet it is obvious that the sermons alone are not changing and cannot change people’s lives.

You may or may not agree with all that is written here, but simply ask God to show you if your church has anything in which to grow and learn in this area.

 
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