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Come on in and make yourself at home...upload a profile picture, play with your page, write a blog post, set up a group for your simple church, region or a special area of interest (bow hunting anyone?), start a discussion, post an event you're organizing...this place is for you.
And, feel free to use the "invite" feature of the site to invite others that you're connected with.
We look forward to connecting with you,
Tony and Felicity Dale
P.S. We've added a page with some basic rules explaining what we view as appropriate behavior for anyone using the blogs or forums on this site. Please take a look at them here.
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Building the Infrastructure: Communications
As I continue the theme of the past few weeks regarding building the infrastructure, I want to focus today on the question of communication. We live in an age of incredible freedom to communicate. For most of us this means that we live with almost permanent information overload. Just today I had to write an email to a dear friend to explain why I didn’t want to continue receiving his devotional thoughts. These types of choices are being forced on each of us almost daily.Part of my goal in send…
Infrastructure Part 2: Facilitating movements by understanding God's part and our part!
Newsweek Magazine, in this week’s issue, quote the Pew Forum research from which this amazing 7% statistic comes. Newsweek describes this as evidence “ that Americans are as loosey-goosey in their religious practices as many have long suspected.” I think that maybe God is up to something!And because most of us reading this e-letter are a part of “that something” it seems to m…
Infrastructure Part 1: Prayer, Leadership and Tools
By the time you see this last blog of 2009, the New Year will virtually be upon us. I wonder what God has in store for His people in this coming year. Any pronouncement from me would be pure conjecture! But we do know various things based on His unchanging nature and love toward us. His plans are still to bless, but we are wise to understand that God’s blessing is conditional upon our obedience. It is not so much that God withholds his blessings, but rather that our own actions prevent them. Thi…Simply Church - The Blog of Felicity Dale
Amazing Talk by Francis Chan at #Verge10
Here are my notes on what Francis Chan said at Verge this evening: Exod 33:15 Moses said to God, “If your presence will not go with me we will not go up from here.” Do we want the presence of God more than anything? More than a big church? More than speaking in front of crowds? We easily lose sight of our original intention of being pleasing to God. Verge means the outer limit. This isn’t a “Let’s start a movement” conference. God is doing something and we’re on the verge of seeing something happen. Church 3.0 by Neil Cole...We're at War!
What else have I learned from the Christians in India? Why is the Indian church growing so fast? They know they are in a battle! They are taught they are born into a world at war. They know who they are fighting and they are skilled in the use of spiritual weapons. They firmly believe that they can win. Through prayer they see idols demolished, temples destroyed, and thousands upon thousands of people rescued from the power of the enemy and released into the Kingdom of light. In India, the warfare is far more obvious than here in the West....Please Can We Start Over with a Discipleship and Missional Emphasis?
Frank Doiron made some great comments that again I would like to respond to in the main blog. He said: "I keep wondering if the house church in North America hasn’t made a fundamental mistake. It has gotten excited about home churches and not discipleship and training/equipping. On top of this it has focused on what we do when we meet instead of how we are trained to go into the world. It is my belief and it has been my experience that when we start with the meeting and what we will do when at that meeting…..its over. It...Cole-slaw - The Blog of Neil Cole
Reimagining Church - The Blog of Frank Viola
Recent Musings
Here are some of my recent musings – most of them have been published on my Twitter page: — What separates great speakers from good speakers: When a great speaker is finished speaking, you only have one thing to say: “Wow, what a Christ!!” I could write “pop” Christian books, but I refuse to. Quality & depth is [...]
A Unique Letter to Barna from a Pastor Regarding “Pagan Christianity”
When George Barna and I released Pagan Christianity in January 2008, it created an instant firestorm. The blogosphere was burning up with both praise and criticism. Very few people stood in the middle. Some pastors (the modern official type) were up in arms, blowing smoke out of both ears. Others pastors were challenged. Some pastors [...]
Interview with Todd Hunter
The following is an interview that I conducted with Todd Hunter recently. Todd was an influential leader of the Vineyard movement (a la, John Wimber). His story is interesting as he has journeyed from a Vineyard leader to the President of the Alpha course to being an Anglican bishop. After the interview I offer a [...]
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Gal 3 19-29 discusses the transition from law to being a Free Son of God. We who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ, some translations use the expression of be clothed with Christ. This passage points out that we are all equal in Chri…
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I have some friends, maybe not any longer, I do not know, who have been set free from drug use. By their own testimony, they say they have been free from drugs for 5 years and 2 years respectively. Oh how I do praise the Lord…
Thanks Ron I agree with you entirely.
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There you go again Michael, trying to hijack your own thread :) Gen 3:5 is not the only scriptural heresy that refers to god plural. There are "god's", gods, and gods, in the Bible, referring to man made gods, and true gods. In the case of Gen 3:5,…
Oops, that's Kihei. Back to Maui! Go get 'em for God!
Shalom bro,
--Michael
Oh, sorry. Just saw that you're in Khei. Is that Singapore?
Shalom wa'Salaam, from Manila,
--Michael
Cool group! With that little merry band you could reach the entire island of Maui...maybe beyond! With God, all things are possible!!!
Shalom from Manila,
--Michael
Yep sister Kristina, it reaches me...and alerts others that you posted something here at simplechurch.com. So others who are interested can log on and read what you write. There are many here who would be interested to know your story, how you becam…
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"Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus." - 2 Tim 2:3 (NIV)When I joined the US Army in 1976, my first stop after being sworn in was Ft Jackson, South Carolina. This was one of the Army's Basic Training facilities. Ev…
Sure, I read lots of stuff on simple church. Did you see my recent blog post challenging brother Eggleton to embrace a more biblical view of what he terms "the early Church"?...and also to employ more of the earliest Christians Bible in his own fait…
Hi Terry!
You wrote:
I believe in Father, Son and Spirit therefore I Rest. I believe Father, Son and Spirit therefore I do; with my words and with my actions.
Amen! If we but follow this simple prescription...who knows? We too may turn the world…
Hi again sister Kristina,
On a gutsy practical level, there are true Christians meeting in more institutionalized branches of Christ's One Body and there are true Christians who are feeling the tug to leave such trappings and simplify our expressio…
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