Facilitating (#4): Giving work to the group
Note: It’s now 2019 and three years have past since I posted the first three articles on Facilitating. In reviewing those posts, I realize that more is need on third step – “Giving work to the group”. Also, fourth step which I call “Debriefing”.) *Watch the video and then continue with the assignments below the […]
LK10 is a Starfish-type Community
Becoming a sustainable movement by John White LK10 is seeking to be an organization that is highly decentralized and reproduces its DNA throughout the organization so that it does not depend on any one person to grow spontaneously and sustainably. How do we do this? When the Lord moved us into the house church world […]
“Make this valley full of ditches!”
This is a powerful sermon by Charles Spurgeon sent to me by Nigel Carson. “Dig Ditches” 2 Kings 3 : 6-20 Charles Spurgeon We now proceed to note OUR DUTY as the prophet tells it to us. The prophet did not tell the kings that they were to procure the water—that, as we have […]
Paul as a spiritual father: “You are my joy”
WHAT DID PAUL DO WITH 10:2B ANSWERS (THOSE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST SENT)? THE HEART OF AN APOSTOLIC FATHER (62 AD) (Note: I chose this picture of Paul because it represents all the pictures of Paul I could find. Serious, severe, scary? There was not one that showed him smiling! I think they are […]
The Jesus Strategy
The Jesus Strategy By John White Why was Jesus so dissatisfied? Two questions. (Actually, the same question repeated in two places.) In Mt. 9:38, Jesus is getting ready to send out six church planting teams of two men each. If we understand that Jesus Himself was a church planter (see Roger Gehring’s book, House Church […]
What does deep joy look like?
During his address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump honored Carryn Owens, the widow of a U.S. Navy Special Operator, Senior Chief William ‘Ryan’ Owens who was killed in a raid on Yemen on Jan. 25. At that moment, every person in the House chamber, democrat and republican, stood, looked over to Carryn and […]
Transforming America. 9. “Looks like he’s going to fire me.”
So, these three ideas are beginning to live in my head. Church as family. A family where everyone contributes when they gather. And, most importantly, Jesus as the head, the leader, the master of ceremonies especially when we gather. But, what in the world would this look like in actual practice?
Transforming America 8. His disciples would have laughed at this
Whenever even two people meet in Jesus name, He pictured Himself being present. That was the picture in His head. In one sense, this was not new to me. What was new was the realization for the first time that, in my picture, Jesus was passively present.
10:2b Prayer Card
Transforming America: 6. Everyone???
Apparently, Jesus had a high value for “spiritual families” where everyone had a voice. Where everyone contributed something in order to see the whole group, the church, become stronger. Somehow this was a key element in making them “vibrant”, pulsing with life. I really didn’t know how to do church this way but I felt instinctively that this was important and it was something I needed to pursue.