Church 101: “A key to sharing the gospel in Thailand

Watch my interview with Jen in Thailand. (click on the picture) Two options here. First, you can simply enjoy Jen’s story and what God is doing through the Church 101 Course. Or, second, you can turn this into a much deeper learning opportunity by reading the six insights below into church and church planting and by watching the videos I reference. Ask the Lord which one He wants you do do.

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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…”

“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 […]

Simple church

When we first began doing house church in 1998, we were reacting against the structure of traditional church. Now, we weren’t going to have any structure! What we discovered was that no structure actually made church very complicated. In time, we have come to a simple structure that moves us toward our two values – connecting with each […]

Best House Church Resources

I recently met with a Christian leader working on a national level who is interested in exploring the idea of house church.  In his experience, traditional, building based churches had generally done a poor job at making disciples.  And, yet, embracing the house church model would represent a huge paradigm shift with many implications.  He […]

Church of Two: “I feel so supported!”

A CO2 (church of two) is amazingly simple yet profoundly powerful.  We think it’s the missing structural element in most churches.  Here’s the definition of a CO2:  Two people.  Two rhythms.  As close to daily as possible.Imagine a house church made up of 3 or 4 CO2s!  Imagine a tradition church made up of 100 […]

Spiritual ADD?

ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder. This is a disorder (often now referred to as ADHD) that affects 15% of the adult population as well as a great many children.  Although the symptoms can be complex and varied, the commonality is a difficulty in staying focused on one thing at a time.  These people are easily […]

Planting a church called “Beer and Bible”

What if planting churches was much simpler than we ever imagined? What if planting churches flowed naturally from hearing God’s voice? Early in 2010, Sean Hyatt took his wife out to eat in an area of Denver called the DTC  (Denver Tech Center).  While there, he felt the Lord telling him to plant a church […]

Pair power!

Meeting once a week for church (even house church!) just doesn’t do it. We are encouraged and nurtured and filled up when we meet with God’s people.  But, then, we have to wait seven days for it to happen again.  Instinctively, we know this isn’t enough.  Clearly, God has constructed us to need the encouragement […]

What John Wesley missed: family = church

250 years ago, John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Movement, glimpsed the simple but powerful concept that “family = church”. “In his sermon “Of the Church”, Wesley said the church is, in the proper sense, “a congregation, or body of people, united together in the service of God.”  Even two or three united in […]

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