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Issue 68                                            February 14, 2012   
Raising the Bar
 "Neil Cole says of Church Multiplication Associates, "'We want to lower the bar of how church is done and raise the bar of what it means to be a disciple.'  Their rationale was that if the experience of church was simple enough that just about anyone can do it, and is made up of people who have taken up their cross and follow Jesus at any cost, the result will be to do the uncommon works of God.  'Churches will become healthy, fertile and reproductive.'  If this is right, then many of our current practices seem to be the wrong way around...we seem to make church complex and discipleship too easy."

 Is it time for some course correction?

-Alan Hirsch (p. 104 of The Forgotten Ways)
TrainingsUpcoming Trainings- Organic Greenhouse   
Greenhouse Story 1
Seattle, WA // Story 1
March 9-11
with Neil Cole & Ed Waken
Online Registration Ended, At the Door Available   
Details

 

GH Story 2

Dripping Springs (Austin), TX // Story 1
March 23-25
with Neil Cole & Katie Driver 

Details


 

Toronto, Canada  // Story 1

March 23-25

with Phil Helfer & Scott Wilson 

Details  



Toronto, Canada // Story 2
April 20-21
with Neil Cole
Details


Church Transfusion Training: Releasing Organic Principles in Established Churches
Church TransfusionMarch 9-10
in Long Beach, California
with Phil Helfer & Bob Mabry

Special underwritten registration rates:
Online Registration Ended, At the Door Available   
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Others in the works:  Harrisburg, PA; Harrisonburg, VA, Houston, TX; Boise, ID; Sydney, Australia  

  

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Other Organic Church Learning Opportunities
 

 Momentum


Friday, March 30 7:00 PM - Saturday, March 31 6:00 PM

Southlands Christian School 

1920 S. Brea Canyon Cut Off Road

Walnut, California 91789

 

Neil Cole (Organic Church); Ken Eastburn (The Well OC); Bob Sears (The Well OC); Bill Faris (Homegrown); Keith Giles (This Is My Body); Ross Rohde (Viral Jesus); Jeanne O'Hair (The Well);  Scott Underwood - Worship Leader

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Article
Featured Article 

What is Church? 
by Neil Cole    
 

Coffee Maker

In the Bible the church is not defined but instead is described with pictures: a flock, a field, a family, a body, a bride, a branch, a building made of living stones. Never is it described by the pictures we typically have today: a building, a business, a school or a hospital. We have replaced an organic and life producing view with an institutional one that does not produce life but at best simply tries to preserve it and contain it.

 

The predominate way of seeing the church today contains, conforms and controls the people. The biblical pictures of the NT are all about releasing and reproducing the life of the church, not managing and controlling financial interests.

Inorganic things can produce, but not reproduce. As Christian Schwartz points out so eloquently, "A coffee maker can make coffee (praise God), but it cannot make more coffee makers." Jesus intends for his bride and body to be fertile and for his branches to bear fruit. Jesus didn't use images of an institution, nor should we....



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