Some would say that we can have healthy, effective, and growing churches without precise and well managed systems, and clearly outlines lines of authority and accountability...... We have no idea how uniquly American that perspective it.... The church is growing via simple means, ordinary people (Not elite professionals), rapidly, all over the world...
It seems God IS leaving behind our old systems, no matter how much we remodel, tweak, adjust, and re-image what we do. People in our kind of churches have never heard of it.... And you will not hear our kind o churches talk about all this either... well maybe when it is in Asia, but not when it is in Canada or America.... Becuse they can't afford to let this simplicity expose their complexity, and the almost morbid amount of money our kind of church must expend on ourseves to maintain what we have.
Woldgang Simpson is an Indian form India, has been part of the Simple movemnts exploding there, and is now in Germany doing the same thing.
I encounter his writing about nine years ago. And This video series is amazing. Simple, clear, not judgmental... to the point. I recommended you listen to it..... and gather others in your home to listen to it.... From this video you can get the other eleven parts (10min each).
It's been how I have been building relationships with people in simplicity, and it has been behind the scenes of the current model of our churches... I learned early on, that talking about this stuf with current churches and leaders is DANGERIOUS.... You will be judged, and you will pay a price if you do. The best advice I ever got as I began this journey in 2000, came about 2006.... Andy Don't try to convince others about it, don't bother seeking their approval, just live it, and then share it with those who come to you seeking it.... I advise you to do the same....
You do not need anyone's approval, nor permission to live out the Kingdom of God and sow into others lives.
Thanks Wolfgang for this little series.
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