What Calvin and Luther didn’t know

“…the choice of the gathering place was formational for the self-understanding and the organizational structures of the individual churches to such an extent that the ancient oikos can be seen as the formational model for ecclesiology.” Gehring, P. 255.

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First, I love the epiphany that Matt has about half way through his story. A lightbulb goes on and it changes everything for these veteran missionaries. Look for this sentence… “And then it started to hit me with real force…”

Couple shares rhythms with 11 different nationalities

they had opportunity to share one or both of the LK10 rhythms (checking in, listening to God) with people from eleven different nationalities. Reflecting on their experience, Erik said, “People were floored at how powerful this was! Community happened so quickly.”

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 […]

“My 6 yr old is learning how to hear the Holy Spirit.”

Apprenticeship Rhythms One and Two: Weekly Learning Assignments and CO2 (or CO3) Here’s another wonderful report of a household (with young children) functioning as a church. John “(The assignments in) Week 7 was awesome! We use sashet here at home with our 6 year old boy and 2 year old girl. Helps them identify emotions […]

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 […]

NBC News Reports on the House Church Movement

More and more the media is catching on to the house church movement. Last night (10/21/10), Brian Williams on NBC’s Nightly News reported that, at a time when the Crystal Cathedral in California is filing for bankruptcy, 9% of American Protestants now attend only house church. This is an estimated 6-12 million people. (See the […]

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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