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The most basic expression of the Christian church is found in the words of Jesus, "Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am in the midst of them." Basic relational community, around the person of Christ. That is the most basic and foundational description that we find. It is in sharp contrast to the sacred spaces and sacred names and sacred practices that are found in the Old Testament that describe the people of God.
After over 1700 years of bewildering embracement of sacred names and spaces by the Christian church, there is a rising tide of a resurgence and rediscovery of what it means to be the relational people of God. Throughout the centuries there have been streams of relational, redemptive communities that refused to fossilize into religious institutionalism, and that ever widening stream is becoming a roaring river. It is time to reimagine again not what once was, but what is, and what it can become again.
The most dynamic expressions of body life are to be found in the tributaries of this river, and that river is commonly known as "the house church movement," "the New Testament Church restoration movement," and also commonly known as "the simple church movement." Whatever name you choose to call it, it is a movement that has at its root a "reimagination" of what it means to be the church of Jesus Christ.
This site seeks to dialog and discuss and encourage the embracing of the Kingdom of God, which was and is the central message of Jesus Christ and to explore its diverse relational dynamics and its benefits to the wider body of Christ.
May you find within these pages encouragement and hope and renewed vision to not settle for anything less, than the fullness of life in Christ in relational and missional community.
About Us - Our Journey, Vision, Beliefs, Networking, Calendar
Emerging - Emerging Church, Emerging Values
Kingdom - Missional, Present Reality, Life & Service, Fulfilled Eschatology
Church - House Church & Emerging Stream, New Testament Church Planting, Simple Church Values, Regional Church & City-Wide Church, Servant Leadership, Itinerant Ministry, House Churches & House Church Networks
Relational - Relational Dynamics, R4 Community, Spiritual Parenting, Belonging, Life in Christ, Contrast Between House Church & Small Groups, Discipleship, Mentoring, Missional Spiritual Gifts
- http://canemerge.blogspot.com
- http://starfishnetworkontario.blogspot.com
- http://www.starfishnetworkconference.org
- http://veritatemquaerens.blogspot.com
- http://unloadthestuffandgetrealwithothermen.blogspot.com
