I love your history and wisdom. It seems to me that the early church was holistic because Christian life was lived in homes with no hierarchy separation o Lay and Clergy but gifts of all in operation. The ParaChurch movement is also lay led and operates on gifts not titles separating us by education. I was Asst Dean at a state university in the Jesus Movement and my church refused to accept the hippies. We opened our home to students and dozens came, were reborn, and recovered from sex, drugs, and porn. The Great Commission says go to all nations but that is ethnic groups and many rejected ‘saving heathen’ which is the core of Jesus’ call. Our house church was diverse in ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and denomination. Kingdom not denomination. We included females and males, young and old, educated and uneducated. Many of our new friends became full time Christians as lawyers, engineers, educators, pastors and priests. We prayed to the addicted, the lame, and those under spiritual attack and saw miracles. That approach is threatening to current structures and egos. I teach this model in over 50 nations of every race.
We need to hear more about this! Great talk. I came here by way of Tim Gombis.
I love your history and wisdom. It seems to me that the early church was holistic because Christian life was lived in homes with no hierarchy separation o Lay and Clergy but gifts of all in operation. The ParaChurch movement is also lay led and operates on gifts not titles separating us by education. I was Asst Dean at a state university in the Jesus Movement and my church refused to accept the hippies. We opened our home to students and dozens came, were reborn, and recovered from sex, drugs, and porn. The Great Commission says go to all nations but that is ethnic groups and many rejected ‘saving heathen’ which is the core of Jesus’ call. Our house church was diverse in ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and denomination. Kingdom not denomination. We included females and males, young and old, educated and uneducated. Many of our new friends became full time Christians as lawyers, engineers, educators, pastors and priests. We prayed to the addicted, the lame, and those under spiritual attack and saw miracles. That approach is threatening to current structures and egos. I teach this model in over 50 nations of every race.