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As God is in the business of recapturing the homes, the church turns back to its roots, back to where it came from. It literally comes home, completing the circle of Church history at the end of world history.
-- Wolfgang Simson, Starfish Portel
A W Tozer
Turn It Around - BOTTOMS UP!
...The proper, Ruler-of-the-Synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting. Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God, and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray to God there will not be one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God, and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom."
-- A W Tozer, Renowned Christian Author and Spiritual Mentor
If you're led to fly with the eagles, to be one of the many Tozer mentions here, be certain God has prepared you to love those whose hatred you may earn. That said, the Institutional Church today has put God in a box. It is run by the insane tyranny of the dreaded status quo, doing the same old thing week after week, month after month, year after year -- expecting different results.
It's unbiblical - grown from pagan roots. It's a top down, heavy handed, hierarchical system that strips individual priesthood and empowerment. It imprisons the church through Roman, Babylonian, Nicolaitan systems breeding spiritual drones in dormant spectatorship. It's static, staid, impersonal - a corporate environment lacking any real depth of transparency. It stifles spiritual multiplication, and authentic, Christ centered transformation. Its resources are vastly wasted to placate a sacred cow, the Roman, Sunday morning order of service that's captured and imprisoned by the edifice complex. It's performance driven, ritualistic, and legalistic. It raises money through manipulation, guilt, worry, and fear under dead tithe laws, (Colossians 2:14), and highly ethereal "seed gift miracles." It's filled with one-upsmanship. It's dominated and controlled by the few, the professional clergymen, at the expense of the common good for all. It divides the church into two classes - clergy and laity. It contains 33,000 denominational camps divided over doctrines that carry no transformational power. In other words, the Institutional Church is a complete and total mess. It's upside down - a house of cards.
On the other hand the organic church grows primarily in the home, and out of the home. It's a free, spontaneous, living, breathing expression of the ekklesia, (church). It's prophetic and apostolic, empowering the church with fruitful multiplication and exponential growth. It provides an environment encouraging transparency and intimacy through deep expressions of unconditional, Christ centered love. It breeds full participation versus Institutional spectatorship. It's sacrificial. There is no clergy - laity divide because there is no clergy. Brethren gather to 'one another one another'. That is, serve one another, submit to one another, confront, confess, and restore one another. Show concern for, be devoted to, and willing to lay down their lives for one another - as Jesus did for each of us. As are all organic growth movements, (such as the current American Tea Parties), the organic church is not a top down, corporate business with a hierarchical system. Instead, it's bottoms up - led by a free, revolutionary spirit taking things that are upside down, and turning them right side up. -- Y NOT?
This video series from Starfish Portel led by Wolfgang Simson is without question the most practical, humble, down to earth, easy to understand resource there is on the organic, missional, home church movement. Whether you're just beginning to learn about organic Christianity, or been involved in it for 50 years, you'll find this resource gives an enjoyable, wholesome, well rounded, panoramic view of the best new thing God is doing in His church today. If you're searching for that something to fill the void you're experiencing in your church life this resource will help lead you to that missing link. -- Y NOT?
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INTRODUCTION
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JOHN 17:21 "...may all of them be one, Father, just as I am in you, and you are in me, so that the world may know that you have sent me."
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Why All the
COMMOTION?
"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well packaged web of lies has been sold to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous, and its speaker a raving lunatic." -- Dresden James
Let It Go! Fly to
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There's a
REVOLUTION
taking place in the church today. People are cutting loose and leaving behind the well packaged web of lies that have held the church captive to empty philosophies and traditions of man. Y NOT? invites you to let it go, embrace the truth, step off the edge, and fly like an eagle to Freedom in Christ. It's what He came to set us free for. Galatians 5:1 -- Y NOT?