The church needs to realise that the Western world has dramatically shifted. It has gone from a Central Culture to a Wide Margin Culture. This means that the way we do church is not the best and most missional, biblical, and disciple-making way of doing church. We have looked at 4 steps in becoming a Wide Margin Church. In this and the next session we… Read More »Monologue to Dialogue
For small independent house churches the inevitable question keeps coming up : Who is running the church? What about Pastors? Won’t it all fall apart? This is a legitimate question and one that we need to assess in two sessions. I believe this next step that the Wide Margin Church is to take is the hardest hurdle of them all. So much of our understanding… Read More »Few to Many
One of the first questions people may have about church is, “who runs it?” In other words, they want to know who the leader is. LEADERS ARE EVERYWHERE They are running businesses, schools, and sports teams. It’s only natural to have leaders amongst your church gatherings, right? But in the traditional church, leadership has been taken to a whole other level. Known as the “clergy”,… Read More »The problem of Clergy