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Category Archives: Organic Church

The Thin Edge hosts joint interview with Barna & Viola

Several weeks ago, I announced that The Thin Edge would be hosting the very first blog interview of George Barna and Frank Viola, co-authors of the new book, Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices. Their eye-opening book has been printed under the Barna imprint of Tyndale House Publishing and officially launched earlier [...]

Posted 27 February 2008 § Book Reviews § Church History § Church Structures § Daily Scribe § Institutional Church § Interviews § The Church ‡ Comments (58) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Harvard, Hollywood, IBM, and Wal-Mart

An excellent excerpt from Megashift: Igniting Spiritual Power, by James Rutz:
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Let's suppose your…church rents Don Corleone's Pizza Emporium on Sunday mornings. [Nobody wants pizza on Sunday morning so you got a sweet deal on the empty restaurant.]
But right across the street from Don Corleone's is Old First Church, the town's biggest, with 4,000 members, ivy-covered [...]

Posted 14 August 2007 § Church Structures § Institutional Church § The Church ‡ Comments (1) °

Jim Elliff, “Why do we meet in homes?”

An excerpt from Christ Fellowship of Kansas City concerning Why do we meet in homes? CFKC is a network of four SBC house churches in the Kansas City area. There are six good reasons, according to Jim Elliff, why they have planted this relatively new congregation according to the house church model.

Posted 29 July 2007 § Church Planting § House Church § Southern Baptists § The Church ‡ Comments (6) °

A typical early church gathering

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to attend an ordinary gathering of the early church? I think about such things and I find myself longing for time travel, just so I could experience Christianity as described in the Book of Acts. Although I seriously doubt anyone will ever make such a [...]

Posted 27 July 2007 § House Church § Multiplication § Relational Christianity § The Church ‡ Comments (1) °

Interviews on “Simple Church”

This video represents a growing movement throughout the world: the "simple" or "organic" church. Many traditional church leaders—especially in the Western world—feel very threatened by this movement and try to paint these believers with a broad brush, describing them as the lunatic fringe of the church of Jesus Christ. What they don't realize, however, [...]

Posted 19 July 2007 § Church Structures § House Church § Video Clips ‡ Comments (3) °

How did the early church handle its rapid growth?

Thanks to Lynn for raising this question! We have no biblical evidence that the early church met weekly in large worship gatherings, but the New Testament is crystal clear that they met in homes. In the very early stages, the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem met daily, not weekly, in the temple courts, but please keep [...]

Posted 17 May 2007 § Church History § Church Planting § House Church § Missions § Multiplication § The Church ‡ Comments (8) °