This year, somehow, since I am being forced offline, I am going to start a “ReallyPoor” church. I am already forming a million ideas on how to make this work. Partly in reaction to the ‘BigMoney’ ministries, who require millions or even hundreds of millions to operate, I am proposing a way to manage funds or lack of them, so that any one can have a “reallypoor” church or even synagogue. This does not mean that it will always stay “ReallyPoor”, nor does it mean that the Word of God will not be preached in power and sincerity: one suspects the opposite is true. Over the years though, of real belief, one discovers that most of what is required for ‘church’ can be done very simply. It is the power and work of God that matters more than anything else.
1. Starting the Church
After the decision is made, the first thing to do is to pray about it. In some ways one should never just ‘start’ a church for the heck of it, because “unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it”. The key ingredients are 1)the will of God, and 2) the believers. Since Christ is the head of the Church, and the ‘Church’ (Ikklesia) is literally an ‘assembly’, it is ‘not built with human hands’. In other words, one does not need a stone or even timber building. I truly believe it may be far better not to have one, since most churches that I have seen which start as small groups in homes or other settings, seem to parallel the structure when they move to stone buildings. Hearts harden like the walls of the place of worship. This is partly because
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1. Starting the Church
After the decision is made, the first thing to do is to pray about it. In some ways one should never just ‘start’ a church for the heck of it, because “unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it”. The key ingredients are 1)the will of God, and 2) the believers. Since Christ is the head of the Church, and the ‘Church’ (Ikklesia) is literally an ‘assembly’, it is ‘not built with human hands’. In other words, one does not need a stone or even timber building. I truly believe it may be far better not to have one, since most churches that I have seen which start as small groups in homes or other settings, seem to parallel the structure when they move to stone buildings. Hearts harden like the walls of the place of worship. This is partly because
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THIS BLOG IS BEING MOVED to blog.com: look for it shortly.
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