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RMC Conference Day Overview
It seems obvious really, the mission of the church is to bring the
This the challenging message I got from the one day conference on
The speakers were:
Jonathan Fokker, Church Planter jonathanchristina.typepad.com
Steve Hill of Harvest Harvest -Now
We were challenged to envisage church as Jesus formed it with his disciples in
Luke 10. He sent them out in twos without a bag, a spare coat, money or sandals
to go as people of peace. This is a lot different from the way many have
experience the traditional ways of being church. We expect organization. We
want to know who is in charge, what's the line of authority. But Jesus works
with a completely flat organization. He who has all authority in heaven and
earth called his disciples friends. (John 15:13-16 NIV) So the reality is that
we are all priests, Jesus is our Lord, we are all friends.
So the church is built by going out to the people, to the houses of peace where
hospitality is offered, respecting the authority of the head of the household,
laying a foundation of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Then leaving for the Holy
Spirit to build the church. This is the opposite approach to many traditional
churches where new believers are drawn into the church organization and
subculture under the authority and under the control of the hierarchy.
But Jesus did not say, 'tell them to come'. He said, 'go'
We did not talk much about how to "do or be house church". Rather we
were considering the nature of the church through its mission. New believers
should be out on mission immediately. Jesus did not spend years with his
disciples sitting on school benches making sure they had their theology all
straighten out. He went on the road with them as bunch of friends. Doing and
learning together. The training and dealing with character issues took place as
Jesus discipled them on the road between villages. How this works out in detail
in practice varies from culture to culture.
So we need to get out of our comfort zones and shed our religious subcultures. And
make a fresh start with Jesus in the lead and see how he wants to build us into
church.

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