The comments below were a response by April Sellers on the Arkadelphia Simple Church Network site (www.arkadelphiahousechurch.com) to my post on listening to the Lord in meetings. We don't often talk about teaching in house church. Within simple churches, we most commonly learn from the Word in the context of an interactive Bible study… Read More
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This is the first of several posts that look at how to follow the Holy Spirit when we gather. Everyone spends some time (10 minutes or more) on their own seeking God for what he would like them to bring. It might be a Bible passage, a thought, a picture, a song, a prayer need… Read More
Our friend Wolfgang Simson, likes to say that programs are what the church is reduced to when they don't know how to follow the Holy Spirit! The main difference between meeting in a house and simple/organic church is that we learn to follow the Holy Spirit when we get together. The key verse we refer… Read More
“The single most important thing that makes house church meetings reproducible” Felicity has written a very helpful blog on the subject of simple patterns for house church. There are many benefits to this kind of simplicity. One of the benefits is that it makes it easy for house churches to reproduce. The question then… Read More
The fourth reproducible element from Acts 2:42 in our times together is prayer. Prayer is foundational. It takes many forms. It includes praise, supplication, intercession for unbelievers, prayer for each other, warfare and so on. Again, the Holy Spirit is very creative and as we listen to him and follow his leading, we will find… Read More
Jesus spoke far more about the Kingdom than he did about the church. He demonstrated the Kingdom, taught about it, lived its principles. Between his resurrection and his ascension, he spent 40 days speaking to his disciples about the Kingdom (Acts 1:3). Then came the Day of Pentecost, when 3,000 became disciples. What did… Read More
All over the country, people are meeting in homes instead of in buildings as their main expression of church. According to George Barna, that figure is about 5% of the adult population of this country! Similar results were obtained in surveys by Ed Stetzer of the Southern Baptists and the Pew Forun. Amazing! Who would… Read More
I just finished reading the book Follow by Floyd McClung. This book discusses the basics of discipleship, teaching us how to disciple not-yet-believers into the Kingdom. These disciples become world changers by reaching out to their communities and starting D-groups (precursors to simple churches). Floyd is not interested in mere believism. He is looking for… Read More
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A physician’s perspective
In a former life back in the UK, I was a physician. Patients would come to me with various physical problems. I would take a history of their symptoms, examine them and make a provisional diagnosis that I would confirm if necessary with diagnostic tests, and then treat whatever condition I had diagnosed. The treatment… Read More
For some years I have pondered the question of discipleship. I have to confess, discipling others has been something of a mystery to me. I know the theory, but have always had questions about it. Discipling someone is usually portrayed as helping a baby in Christ towards maturity. Maybe my questions are because I became… Read More