Guidelines for Simple Gatherings
From Joel News:
"The simple church revolution is not about doing conventional church in a
home," says house church coach John White from Denver, USA. "It's not
'Honey, I shrunk the church!' It's not 20 minutes of singing, 30 minutes of
Bible study, 10 minutes of prayer and then refreshments. Or, any other
prepackaged way of meeting. Rather, it's about listening. Listening to the
Holy Spirit (and each other) and doing what He says." He suggests three
'centering questions' that will help house churches to live this out:
- What have you heard from the Holy Spirit this week that will help or strengthen the rest of us?
- As we are listening to each other, what is the Lord saying to us as family?
- What will we do about this, and how will we help each other?
Source: John White, Dawn Ministries via Joel News
1 comment:
If all of our movements (& local "learning" teams) actually integrated these questions into their time together a significant amount of team dysfunction would be cut down in the ministry and there would be a greater attentiveness to the Spirit at work in our midst.
Why do so many teams specifically seem to struggle to reflect this kind of spiritual learning amidst organizational execution?
If leadership teams don't reflect this, I don't see the movements they lead reflecting this either.
Brian Virtue
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