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Church & Finances = Oil & Water?

THE QUESTION:How does your house church deal with (or avoid) the issue of finances?
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Money matters. We all know this. For those of us who are part of the movement to return to the simple roots of the New Testament Church, we have also [...]

Growing your churches tall and strong

Stapleton is a growing neighborhood in Denver, built on the former site of our airport. As you walk through the open air malls, there are young trees in the middle of large circles of soil. Three metal stakes surround the base, and strands from each stake connect to the diminutive trunk. Though the tree is [...]

BECOME AN INCARNATIONALIST!

The season leading up to Christmas, which has already begun for this year, is an opportunity to celebrate, ponder and engage a little-talked-about Truth. In our dash toward Christmas, we race right on by a power-full rest stop – one that is good for our entire life. This is the Truth of the Incarnation!
IN-CAR-NA-TION: [...]

House church networks connecting with each other

Last year, my network of churches in Lakewood began meeting every 8 weeks with a network from Golden for mutual encouragement and celebration. More recently, we have begun meeting with the leaders of networks in central and east Denver. Out of this flowed a combined Celebration on October 20th which included worship, sharing and vision [...]

House Church is a great model for urban church planting

I have been an urban missionary for the past 19 years. Although I have been blessed to be involved in planting two (traditional) urban churches, I have always been frustrated that so much time went to raising money to pay for buildings. This left little to actually help meet the needs of the [...]

More K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple saints) training…

This is a brief note that Michael Tummillo sent to all the folks on his mailing list and it is very simple yet very powerful, so I thought I would share it:
Last Saturday, I drove 3 hours to a small Texas town where a man had asked me to come and explain the Simple Church/House [...]

KISS (Keep it simple saints)

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
John 13:34-35
Jesus message was startlingly simple. Despite our attempts over the past 2,000 years to complicate and obfuscate his words, [...]

How to Prepare for Simple Church

Years of sitting in traditional church has not prepared us to do church in the manner described in the New Testament. We have been taught to come. To sit. To watch and listen to what others have prepared. (Someone described it as “sit, soak and sour”.) This is Spectator Church. And it is no way [...]

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