I just do not require all the gimmicks and "Stuff" many Christians have come to expect today.
What I need are people genuinely interested in my spiritual welfare, and I in theirs.
Learning, correcting, encouraging and living the word of God together on mission to the place we live. I don't need a building, a PHD teacher, PowerPoint, and live entertainment, to keep me interested. Where there is genuine relationship over mutual growth, there is no lack of interest on my part. I could assemble in a living room, under a mango tree, at a park, and my "church" could include a BBQ as well as communion and that would notch the interest level way up for me.
"The Roman Catholic Church went on to canonize the system. Luther reformed the theology surrounding the gospel, but left the outer forms of “church” remarkably untouched. The Free Churches freed the system from the state, the Baptists then baptized it, the Quakers dry-cleaned it, the Salvation Army put it in uniform, the Pentecostals anointed it, and the charismatics renewed it, but until today nobody has really changed the system. The time to do that has now arrived."
(The House Church Book. Wolfgang Simson. Barna, 2009, pg xiv)
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