Paul as spiritual father: “I have you in my heart.”

In understanding Paul’s relationship with these people in Philippi (10:2b answers), I want you to focus on the fact that they occupied a place in his heart. They were not a task, they were not part of a program. They resided in the deepest part of Paul.

“The church is like a drunken horseman”

The church is like a drunken horseman.  Prop him up on one side and he falls off on the other.  – Martin Luther  This is one of my favorite (and probably one of the most accurate) quotes from church history.  The church, like a pendulum, seems to swing from one extreme to the other.  Last […]

Miracles from LK10 Conference

Started a CO2 in my home last night. I have to say it was the most significant spiritual moment my family has experienced together in some time.

Methodist House Churches?

I’ve just returned from the National House Church Conference in Jacksonville, FL.  It was a wonderful time with 180 participants, 80% of whom had never attended the Conference before.  One observation is that the Lord is increasingly drawing people in traditional churches (Baptist, Methodist, etc.) to consider house churches.  The brief interview below with Rev. […]

Church planting: 18 months or 1 day?

Back in the late 1980’s I planted a “traditional” church.  What a difficult and laborious process!  It took about 18 months and involved many hours spent in demographic studies, committee meetings, budgeting process, locating a facility, developing a worship team and a children’s ministry, gaining approval of my denomination, etc.I decided that I never wanted […]

Top Ten Reasons for using SASHET in your church (# 7)

* Top Ten Reasons for starting simple church by using SASHET to “check in” with each other… #7. SASHET helps create a true sense of family (even with seminary students!). In the LK10 Community we talk about a very simple equation that explains a great deal about house church. Church = family. While this is […]

Family flows from listening

Apprenticeship Rhythms One and Two: Weekly Learning Assignments and CO2 (or CO3) The Apprenticeship is twelve weeks long and every week, members receive a new chapter in our eWorkbook. Each chapter has three Learning Assignments. This week, the focus is on family flowing from listening. See below for another example of a home functioning as […]

Eight year old: “God will never talk to me!”

The Luke Ten Community is committed to restoring the church to the home. Part of what this means is that family members learn how to pay attention to and talk about their hearts. (Did that happen in the family you grew up in?) And, then, it also means learning how to hear God’s voice. We […]

Trinitarian community (1)

Think about this quote from theologian, Stanley Grenz… God’s triune nature means that God is social or relational – God is the “social Trinity.” And for this reason, we can say that God is “community.” God is the community of the Father, Son, and Spirit, who enjoy perfect and eternal fellowship. Churches are supposed to […]

CO2 – The Hyatt Family (4)

In response to the story about the Hyatt family doing CO2, Jared Looney, a church planter in NYC, posted this comment yesterday… We recently did S.A.S.H.E.T. as a family. That is, my wife, my five year old daughter, and me. My wife and I had practiced this tool in various settings before, but doing it […]

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