House Church Sub-cultures
Present Testimony Ministry is a "simple church" church planting ministry. He notes some important sub-cultures that form among House churches...
The Glorified Bible Study.
The Special Interest Group.
The Personality Cult.
The Bless-Me-Club.
The Socially Amorphous Party.
The Disgruntled Malcontent Society.
The Unwritten Liturgy Driven Church.
Its a negative article. He has more articles on his site that i haven't read yet. I did read his book, Rethinking the Wineskin. It had really great stuff, but was very weak when trying to reconcile Biblically defined church offices/titles/ leadership with everyone being led by the Holy Spirit. He came close to denying the former to retain the latter. I see this in a lot of emergent church ecclesiastical experimentation. One method endorsed by many is situational leadership. We have all had bad experiences with bad leaders. But the New Testament is written by leaders with instruction to leaders with titles and expectations. Unfortunately, we all can tend to solve an issue by embracing its opposite. There's a better way.
The Glorified Bible Study.
The Special Interest Group.
The Personality Cult.
The Bless-Me-Club.
The Socially Amorphous Party.
The Disgruntled Malcontent Society.
The Unwritten Liturgy Driven Church.
Its a negative article. He has more articles on his site that i haven't read yet. I did read his book, Rethinking the Wineskin. It had really great stuff, but was very weak when trying to reconcile Biblically defined church offices/titles/ leadership with everyone being led by the Holy Spirit. He came close to denying the former to retain the latter. I see this in a lot of emergent church ecclesiastical experimentation. One method endorsed by many is situational leadership. We have all had bad experiences with bad leaders. But the New Testament is written by leaders with instruction to leaders with titles and expectations. Unfortunately, we all can tend to solve an issue by embracing its opposite. There's a better way.
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