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Unity With Your Spouse

This is the third post in a series highlighting key lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years exploring simple/house/organic church with my family and friends.  “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Matthew 19:6 (NIV): Marital Unity and Simple Church There is an overarching lesson that I’m sure will be referenced in many of these entries over the next several months, and it deserves its own post. That lesson is this: simple church is more about what God wants to do in you than what you are going to do for Him. Today, I want to focus on how this lesson applies to married couples exploring simple expressions of church. For those with spouses, simple church often becomes about cultivating unity in… Read More »Unity With Your Spouse

Part 3: Church As A Way Of Life

Over the last two posts, I have shared some of my experiences on my recent trip to meet Kazakhstani and Italian house and simple church leaders.  Over the next few posts, I would like to some take-a-ways that I hope will continue to impact my life and those of us here at home. Church As a “Way of Life” On this trip, I was affirmed and encouraged by a key truth that I often repeat: being the Church is a way of life, not a meeting or a service.  In my humble opinion, decentralization will be a common feature of the Church in the years to come.  This cannot happen quickly enough in Kazakhstan where it seems that “house church” often can still be dependent on professional ministers and programs for training.  We know that… Read More »Part 3: Church As A Way Of Life