教会种植和教会复活
写由Mark范· Steenwyk ： 2005年7月19日
昨天，我有一次交谈与朋友说出丹。 我们谈论什么痛苦教会，并且他建议教会种植不是方式带来新的生命力，并且健康对教会…他比作了它对决定有婴孩愈合他们的婚姻的不正常的夫妇。 因此年轻人有许多能量并且是逗人喜爱的…并且能逃脱很多，但最后继承他/她的父母特征或，象经常案件，创造新发出答答声dis健康通过起反应反对他/她的父母。 无论如何，孩子可能经常被奴役到它的父母的不健康的方式关连。 这是一次滑稽的交谈，因为丹和我是两个教会大农场主(很好，他是大约5年前)。
有何选择？ 使我们的当前机关复苏，权利？ 所有我们使我们的机关更加健康的正义尝试和更加有生产力…正确？ 我不如此认为。 我认为解答是教会种植…，但教会种植一个不同的排序。 多数交谈关于教会种植或教会复活假设某事： 教会是机关。 若，我们有包括它的协会表示，并且它uninstitutionalized动态表示教会…一的一个更加可变的定义？ 若一个小组朋友在第一个教会决定故意地开始与互相相关用爱恋的方式，并且他们自己胜过了在那外面…，但抵抗了敦促和欲望到事假他们不健康的教会开始新的事或者敦促强迫他们自己“复兴”机关？ 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.