Thursday, November 27, 2008

we have emerged past emerging!

Yes it's time! We are retiring this blog and moving on to our nucleic house church page. When we started this we were looking into the various movements within the Christian Church and trying to see where God was leading us. Emerging, emergent, and open church were interesting but ultimately struck us as attempts to put a new face on the same traditional structures. Similar to the contemporary and megachurh movements, these trends are trying to put new life and vitality into the the traditional church. And I think that this is great and that God will use all of it to draw humanity to himself. I am certain that we have taken elements from everything we have experienced, read about, and connected with in any way. But the direction He is leading us in is a bit different. We feel called OUT of the traditional church structure altogether and into house church. Though we are a small congregation (that would be four...plus one new member on the way:) we are encouraged in so many ways that we are in the center of God's will.

This journey is not ending just starting a new leg, a wonderful, exciting, fascinating turn into house church.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Are you ready to die for your faith?

An interesting scenario- how would you answer the question?