What is the purpose?
God put us here with a purpose - the purpose to change the world with the good news of Jesus. This must be done in community. We are here to be part of that community - to bring together people who share the vision of disciples who make disciples who plant churches. This is about ordinary people being used by God in extraordinary ways. This is the priesthood of all believers in action!
How will we accomplish that?
Educate biblically - our actions must be grounded in scripture.
Train skills - Hands on training in skills that can change lives.
Connect - through the community tab, the comments, and social media
What will it look like?
Mobilizing everyday Christians.
Learning and being trained here to go out and put it into practice where you live.
The time to activate everyday believers to be world changers through the power of the Spirit is NOW!
Thanks for being here. I love and appreciate each and every one of you.
- Matt
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Has God Stopped Revealing Things to People Since the Bible is Complete?
I have a question for those of you who believe that there is no further revelation since the Bible has been completed.
There are thousands of testimonies coming out of areas of the world that are incredibly hostile to Christianity. These testimonies are all very much the same. And they involve people who have no access to Scripture or anyone to teach them the good news.
They’re having dreams of Jesus. He is coming to them in their sleep and revealing himself to them. They are converting to Christianity, initially, in the absence of the Bible. Often times Jesus and the vision helps them know where to go and wait for someone to come and share more with them.
So people are turning from Islam to Christianity in droves in the absence of Scripture through dreams of Jesus, revealing the gospel to them.
If you believe there is no more direct revelation from God, do you believe that this is really happening or do you deny it is real? Are these people just mistaken, are they liars,
Why would someone just make this up and risk the very life in the lives of their children? And why would this be made up so consistently and disconnected countries around the world from people who never met each other?
What are your thoughts on that, since the Bible is all anyone in the entire world needs?
I agree with the premise that the Bible is sufficient to come to the knowledge of the truth and salvation, however, I also believe that God is not limited to only using the Bible.
Both can be true. It is not picking one or the other and that is often how I see this debate framed - "If you think God is still revealing things to people, then you believe the Bible is not sufficient."
So what are your thoughts on these experiences? These dreams? Are they real or fake? Are these people telling the truth or are they lying?
If these people are deceived and/or lying...Satan is doing a horrible job on this one.
Thoughts?
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In Roy Moran's book "Spent Matches" he talks about a dream he had, a literal dream, of trying to get the entire city of Kansas City to come to the church building on Sunday. There were so many logistics and so little space that it proved to be an impossible task.
And he wasn't okay with that.
He realized that the church needed more diversity of approaches in order to be faithful to our calling and command to go and make disciples.
The church can become something that makes obedience to what God said hard. It is important that we wrestle with that idea, evaluate what we are doing and eliminate any friction our systems cause to the commands of God.
What are some systems, beliefs or mindsets that can actually hinder rather than help us do what God said?
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It is easy to think what makes it hard to love another person is something about that person when the real reason it is hard to love another person is more than likely something in me, not something in them.
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A lot of former ministers I talk with tell me the same thing - that they are now doing more ministry in secular employment than they did when working full time for a church.
I have heard this more times than you would believe.
First, if you are a former minister, do you agree or disagree and why?
Second, what does this tell you about the ministry machine that has been created and perpetuated?
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This is a bit too general but Judaism was a bit easier to put the brakes on via persecution because you could remove the priesthood. You could remove the temple. You could stop the sacrifices because they required specific things that could be halted.
Then comes the church where everyone is a priest (1 Peter 2) and everyone is the temple (1 Cor 3,6). There is no building. There are no special robes. Jesus is the once for all sacrifice so you can't stop what already happened.
God created a persecution proof system in the new covenant...not that it couldn't be persecuted but the impact of any persecution was limited by dispersing things out to the whole.
Then here comes us humans and we take that persecution-proof system and go back to temples and altars and priests. I am not sure that is the step in the right direction as a whole.
How did God design the church and is what we see and do today aligned with that? Thoughts?
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Home church comes with some advantages. Here are a few:
- More people using their gifts to build up the body
- No spectators
- Easier to reproduce than brick/mortar/staff
- Discipleship comes more naturally
- Transparency is more natural
- Transformation is more accessible due to higher participation/usage of gifts and smaller size = safer sharing.
- Church is in the neighborhood, rather than driving by a bunch of other churches to "get to church".
- The "one another's" are far more easily accomplished
- It better/more resembles church in the New Testament
- Hospitality is real because you are having people into your home, where you actually live rather than into a building where no one lives.
If you are in a home church, what would you add?
If you are not, what questions do you have about it?
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Several videos in the works! I had hoped to have one up today but couldn't get it done...more on the way ASAP!
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