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Announcing an event for Women:
 
Event: The Bridegroom and His Bride (A Love Story)
When: Saturday October 2nd at 3pm – Sunday October 3rd at 3 pm
Where: Franciscan Retreat Center in Colorado Springs
Cost: Approximately $38
 

House churches are welcome to take a love-offering to offset the costs of the retreat so that it can be affordable for everyone. If you would like to sponsor someone in your house church do that or you can send your check to the general fund (which goes to scholarships and offsetting total costs of the facility).
 
Please make your checks out to: Lakewood Church of Christ with “Women’s Retreat HPCF” in the MEMO line. Send them to:

Darren Boyer
510 Tanager Street
Brighton, CO 80601

“Going to the women’s retreat is an uplifting experience. Having a chance to spend some time focused on Christ with just women is truly uplifting.” ~Kim Edwards

For questions, please leave a comment on this posting and a volunteer from Colorado House Church will get in touch with you.

Interested in learning more?  This Saturday night (July 17) the Denver House Church Network is hosting Rob Turner, the teaching pastor at Apex.  Come and learn more about how God is working in this large community that fully embraces the house church model.

Click here for a short video about Apex:  http://apexcommunity.org/are-you-new/about-apex/

Where:  Confluence Ministries.  1400 Quitman Street, Denver, CO.  (West on Colfax from I-25 about one mile.  South on Quitman for one block)

When:  This Saturday evening (July 17) from 7 – 9 pm.

Questions: Post a comment and a volunteer from Colorado House Church will quickly get in touch with you.

Have you ever wanted to know more about what is house church?  Or maybe Jesus has been speaking to your heart on joining or starting a house church?  We would love and be blessed to have you visit our booth for dialog and have your questions answered.

Heaven Fest is a Christian Music Festival happening near Denver, Colorado.  Thousands and Thousands of people from all over Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah Nebraska and Kansas will be coming to Denver to see over 70 bands and artists perform on 7 stages with 7 interactive areas.  For ticket information, CLICK HERE.

Video 1 - Understanding the nature of church, who leaders were, and how to interpret scripture to see the leadership role of women in the church.

Video 2 - Using the “one-end-of-the-telephone” approach to understanding scriptural commands for the behavior of women in the church.

Video 3 - Women leaders of the early church, women as apostolic church leaders, and the excitement seeing women and men joined together in ministry.

For more information on the SimplyChurch ”Kingdom Women” series, visit http://www.simplychurch.com/kingdom-women/

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By Jason Zahariades

Beginning the Process 

Back in February, as Mark and I were praying and talking about beginning a 

missional community, I emailed a guy on the other side of the US who had already 

begun one of these communities. Here are a couple of things he said in our 

correspondences.

“Here’s a strong statement: most evangelicals, including Vineyard people, are 

addicted to church culture. Take away their Sunday service, their bible studies, 

prayer meetings, and five-song worship teams and they start having withdrawals 

quickly. I think that it is a necessary part of this process to have a detox time… I 

would suggest a time of at least a year of not doing the ‘normal’ church stuff. For us, 

during that time of detachment we only did a few things together – ask hard 

questions and eat. Those were our corporate disciplines.” 

In another email he reinforced the point: 

“Let me reiterate from my last email that one of the most beneficial things you 

might do is take a break from all things church for a while. This may seem really 

counterproductive, especially when you start having people wanting to be a part of 

your community immediately. But if your aim is to get people to begin thinking outside 

the bounds of cultural Christianity, some significantly radical action is required.” 

When I first read these comments, I knew he was stating something profound. 

What I didn’t anticipate was the extent of my own addiction to the contemporary 

church and the painful detox process I would experience. What I’m coming face to 

face with through the process is the non-authenticity and impotence of my own faith. 

Let me explain…

Click the image for a printable PDF flyer…

Cornerstone has been structured around reaching out to people based on their age, life-stage, and interests. While we are excited about all that God has accomplished at Cornerstone through various life-stage ministries over the years, after much assessment, prayer, and studying of the Scriptures, we have come to strongly believe that the body of Christ is NOT supposed to be divided unnecessarily along age, gender, or life-stage lines.

I would also add that the book of James makes it clear they shouldn’t be divided among socioeconomic lines either. Despite the geographical economic segregation of many cities, in a 1-2 mile radius of any church you would likely have quite an economic range.

By including the poor you will naturally see age diversity in churches. In my experience the poor are more multi-generational in how they live and relate to family and friends, a beautiful blessing for those of us raised in the middle or upper socioeconomic classes.

Read more about Cornerstone’s shift in thinking.