Tom Sine spoke on the morning radio programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM along with Jarrod McKenna from Peace Tree Community. While Tom’s book talks about the many ways that people are re-imagining church, Jarrod is part of a community that is living out faith in simple ways in the Perth suburb of Lockridge.’
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From the Anabaptist Association’s weekly mail out - www.anabaptist.asn.au
One of the earliest of the Anabaptists, a Swiss Brethren named Conrad Grebel, defined the church to be “the few who believed and lived right.” Do you see the house church in that definition? Grebel would have been completely happy to see the great masses of unregenerate […]
Found in ‘Simple Church Journal’ Roger Thoman.
J.D. Payne has done a study of house 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 […]
From Keith Ward who is in a home church in Narooma N.S.W.
Do people know of the 2 mainstream movies that can create good discussion and enjoyable change at a house church gathering….Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty?
“Our home church is going through a difficult stage - different views on theological issues are causing discomfort!” So I was told during the week, and in fact I am often told about this ‘problem’.
1. Of course members of any group will hold different views on all sorts of things. Why should a home church be any […]
This last weekend Paul sustained a serious heart attack and was operated on at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. This surgery was successful but he has to have further surgery on Wednesday.
In much appreciation for your prayers,
BuntyTo read their March newsletter, click here…..paul-bunty-collins-march-news.pdf
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Paul and Bunty Collins
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A family in Mansfield, a south-east suburb of Brisbane, Qld, is looking for some folk to start a gathering with them to build one another for the Kingdom. Contact OIKOS (via the web site) if that sounds like something for you!
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 ‘The Simple church Journal’ (see Links to right). Dave Wainscott has put together some excellent quotes around the topic of “Worship is not Music.”
“It would be true to say that during the last twenty-five years or so amongst those churches which would own the label ‘evangelical’, a significant change in understanding has taken place […]
houses-of-the-holy Q Magazine.pdf Click here for the article regarding new ways of church published recently in the ‘Q’ Magazine of the Queensland Courier Mail.