Tag Archives: assembly
The Once And Future Church
Churches (and what I mean by this is the local manifestation of the Universal Church but I’ll refer to them for now on as assemblies) have lost focus of the Gospel.
Is Campus Crusade A Local Church?
“The way you’re sitting: you’re still not so sure about what I’m saying….” “Well yes. I mean at first it sounded like you were making a very narrow distinction about what a local church is. Then you basically say all churches are crippled–.” “Well most anyway. I can’t really prove all.” “Fine, so most. But [...]
Examples of The Crippled Church
I wanted to illustrate the main point from my last post: that any gathering of Christians might still be an ekklesia albeit horribly crippled. Up front I wanted to make my point clearer—I think we’ve restricted the meaning of the Local Church to center around a building or a specific service but have ignored the [...]
Local Church Series
This post serves as a repository of my Local Church series What can we assume to know about the Church? Are there any unspoken assumptions about the Church? Why assume anything about the Church? What is the Goal of the Church? What is the Work of the Church? What does the local church look like? [...]
Local Leaders in Community