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More churches - Better churches - New churches
To Disciple a nation, many New Churches are needed.
Together with traditional, congregation-type churches, more and
more alternative forms of church are emerging today. DAWN wants
to be a catalyst for the planting of congregational as well as cell
churches, house churches and New Generation churches. They need
to be seen as complementary; our society is not an uniform mass
and less and less "white-middle aged-middle class".
What will the Church be
next? - an excerpt of an exciting new book by Church Growth
professor Eddie Gibbs
"Planting
Church Planting Churches" or: How to start a reproducing
Church
15 Theses towards a Re-Incarnation of Church
God is changing the Church, and that, in turn, will change the
world. Millions of Christians around the world are aware of an imminent
reformation of global proportions. They say, in effect: "Church
as we know it is preventing Church as God wants it." A growing
number of them are surprisingly hearing God say the very same things.
There is a collective new awareness of age-old revelations, a corporate
spiritual echo. In the following "15 Theses" I will summarize
a part of this, and I am convinced that it reflects a part of what
the Spirit of God is saying to the Church today. For some, it might
be the pro-verbial fist-sized cloud on Elijah's sky. Others already
feel the pouring rain. [read
more]
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