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.
From Wayne Crockford, sent to us by Graeme Cooksley (Townsville, Qld)
1 Leadership sets the stage for all church development
Leadership style determines mindsets of the fellowship
2 Leadership is a gift – not a hierarchical position
3 Plural (collegiate) leadership appears the normal for local churches in the NT
4 Leadership does not imply status – or “lording over”, it is a servant […]
Jesus was not kidding when he told us that the “wheat and the tares” are growing together until the end of the age, when he comes to harvest. Good and bad grow side by side, both in the church and in the world at large. Here in the States we watch with a certain bemused […]
From John White, Denver, Colorado U.S. (A challenge to home churches in Australia also. Bessie)
All of us have been drawn into simple/house churches believing that Jesus had more in mind for church than what we had been experiencing in the institutional church. At this present moment, we have the opportunity to explore more deeply Jesus’ […]
How to know when you’ve created a MONSTER
-by Terry Somerville.
Have you ever noticed how you can follow the Lord, and lovingly
create a ministry organization to better do the work, then one
day the “creature” develops a life of its own, gets off the table and
begins to terrorize those who created it? It happens because of
fallen human nature […]
Well, I have been to a few funerals in my time, but I have never been to one under the sky.
Today Friday 18th January at 11:00am, friends and family of Helen Beech gathered at Whylie Park, Petrie to pay their last respects to our friend of some months now. Helen, like so many others lived […]
Dear Bessie, We are writing to you regarding something we feel God has laid on our hearts over recent times. We have felt challenged to be involved in raising a significant army of missionaries in partnership with CCMN, the global Cell Church Missions Network. We are looking for like-minded Pastors and churches who would desire […]
The Winds of Change
Hong Kong & India
Over the past three weeks I have been speaking at conferences conducted by Cell Church Missions International (CCMI).
CCMI was initiated as a result of Ralph Neighbour’s work and is spearheaded by Ben Wong from China (Hong Kong).
The Hong Kong conference was attended by around 90 missionaries from 16 countries. […]