Published from Women2Women (www.house2house.tv)
This article, by Frank Viola, is the transcript of a spoken message the author delivered to a newly planted church in Santiago, Chile on December 31, 2001. Note: The Chilean culture tends to have a very low view of women.
Go to http://www.wsaresourcesite.org/Files/CPMs/CLS-CPM%20mss.doc for a good article on church planting.
From John Fenn……www.ifaithhome.org
I’ve been thinking for some time on why Acts 10:38 says of Jesus: “Who went about doing good”, before it says “and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, (for God was with him).”
When WE think of the life of Jesus we first call to remembrance his healings & miracles. But when […]
Re-Thinking House Church
The process of thinking about, practicing, re-thinking, re-imagining, and re-experimenting is exactly where the church needs to be today as it struggles to shed some irrelevant outer garments and seeks to uncover the shape it is morphing into.
I have seen the benefits of moving away from more traditional structures and into church forms […]
FROM TWO YOKE-FELLOWS IN THE GOSPEL
(from Paul Wallis, OIKOS A.C.T.)
Let me offer you some words of wisdom abstracted from the writings a yoke-fellow in the Gospel. As a chaplain to various group houses and household-based churches, I find these words very relevant. I have changed some vocabulary here and there to avoid confusion. The writer […]
‘Jesus’ radical challenge to us to repent’
To read this article by Bob Collie, an OIKOS reader, click here Being Nothing People.pdf
The seventh in the series by Paul Wallis, Chaplain General of Jesus Generation, and lecturer in Church History and Hermeneutics at Unity College, A.C.T.
As a young Christian worker I found myself actively involved in the Student Community up and down the country. It was an interesting time. Old denominational delineations were rapidly losing their hold […]
The sixth in the series by Paul Wallis, Chaplain General of Jesus Generation, and lecturer in Church History and Hermeneutics at Unity College, A.C.T.
Some years ago I was offered a very nice job. It hasn’t happened to me often so I remember it quite distinctly. There were particular elements of the job package that made […]
This is the fifth in the series of articles about saints through the ages written by Paul Wallis. Paul is Chaplain General of Jesus Generation (home churches) and lectures in Church History and Hermeneutics at Unity College, A.C.T.
With his dying breaths Gerry heard his executioner read out a religious statement condemning him to hell. In his […]
Fourth in the series by Paul Wallis….Chaplain General of Jesus Generation (home churches). He lectures in church history and hermeneutics at Unity College, A.C.T.
Just recently my small cluster of churches revised the little constitution that links us together. One of the things we needed to revisit was the issue of how the groups would relate […]