教会植わることおよび教会復興
MarkヴァンSteenwyk著書かれている: 2005年7月19日
昨日、私はダンと名前が挙げられた友人との会話を有した。 私達は教会植わることは新しい活力を持って来る方法ではないし、教会への健康は彼らの結婚を直す赤ん坊があることにする正常に機能しないカップルに…彼それを例えたことを教会を悩ませる彼が提案したものが述べていて。 従ってdis健康の新しい軽い音を作成する場合が頻繁にあるように、若者にエネルギーの多くがあり、がかわいく…、そしてたくさんを受継いだり彼/彼女の親の特性をまたは反応によって彼/彼女の親に対して、最終的にうまく免れることができる。 いずれにしても、子供は頻繁に親の関連している不健康な方法に奴隷にすることができる。 これはダンおよび私が両方とも教会プランターであるので、おかしい会話である(よく、彼は前に約5年だった)。
代わりは何であるか。 私達の現在の施設を生き返らせること、権利か。 すべては公正な試み私達の施設をより健康、により生産的なさせる…右か。 私はそう考えない。 私は解決が植わる教会…別の種類の教会植わらないでありことを考えるではない。 教会植わるか、または教会復興についてのほとんどの会話は何かを仮定する: 教会は施設である。 、私達が教会の流動定義を…有したら何が含んでいた1つ制度上の表現動的表現をuninstitutionalized、か。 最初教会の友人のグループが愛情のある方法で互いに関して計画的に始まることにした、が、それから彼らの自身のアウトリーチ…許可に抵抗した何が衝動および新しい何かを始める欲求彼らの不健康な教会または衝動に彼らの専有物を施設に「強制する復活」か。 In this sense, these people would be starting an intentional community within their existing institution–a sort of "church within a church" but one that is not institutionalized, like the many "church-within-a-churches" that are either young people’s worship services or a seperate institution? These church-within-a-churches reinforce homogeneity. The fluid way of being a church-within-a-church is low-key, and centers around having meals with friends and building relationships…and cultivates meekness instead of trying to "change the system."
I’d love to hear your thoughts and reactions…I know my thoughts are rather embryonic; help me flesh them out a bit…
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I stumbled across your blogg and read your last comment. I’m in a bit of an exploration myself presently so don’t have many answers, but my experience so far may help your discussion.
Firstly, my wife and I have left our “church”. We do not attend the services any more. It was getting too difficult as God was leading us one way and the consesus of our church is that there is no members only leaders who are either leading or being trained for leadership in a church program. We still relate to our friends, share communion with them, pray together, share finances etc but are not members of the “church”.
I jointly own a business with other Christians. We have prayer meetings and so on. We have seen a few salvations through our contact with clients, and we try to help people God has led us to.
I used to work for our church, and there seems very little difference between working for a church (that effectively operates like a business) and working in business that seeks to minister like a church.
Obviously there are a number of problems, but the journey is just starting.
I would be interested in some objective feedback?!
Sorry, I didn’t quite get to the point. I was meaning to say that “the church within the church” concept was not possible in my case due to the strong leadership structure of the current situation. Ie leadership and membership only exists within the parameters that you are given (church programs). This takes up all spare time, and so it hasn’t been possible to explore a more fluid option at the same time.
We have had to choose one or the other.
The new pic makes you look like Tom Hanks.