Category: Thoughts from Others

Written by Roger Thoman from SimpleChurch Journal. Check out his website simplechurchjournal.com Church is people. Living for God is lifestyle. This is the simplicity of being ekkesia: followers of Jesus. Traditional church has focused on programs, pulpit teaching, and Sunday performances. It is a religious system rather than a spiritual ecosystem. And systems, by nature, […]

The below article was written by Buff Scott, Jr. You can contact Buff and sign up for his Reformation Rumblings newsletter by emailing him at renewal@mindspring.com. The universal biblical principle, found throughout, is that in the assemblies of the early saints all gifts were shared mutually. The “hired hand” today interferes with and disrupts this […]

Written by Buff Scott, Jr. Being Clear From The Beginning I think it might be expedient to say that if King James had not intervened in the efforts of his Hebrew and Greek scholars, the KJV of the Scriptures might have turned out to be among the most accurate translations. His interference and dictatorial decrees […]

By Victoria Holt I woke up multiple times last night, and always with the same thought ricocheting through my spirit in acute awareness: “You’re not a ‘group’…” Finally, in the wee hours of the morning, I simply stayed up. I chose to be still, and listen. Prior to last night, I’d been praying about this […]

From my friend Reed Merino You are guilty – and you don’t even KNOW it – if you are content to be a DENOMINATIONAL Christian! If I am successful then when you have finished reading this essay you will feel a hefty dose of guilt and anger – hopefully, not at me, but at both […]

From my friend Reed Merino The Importance Of The Church: God’s Kingdom Among Men! There is no need more urgent on our planet than that apostolic Christianity should be restored. Considering the desperate conditions that exist on this planet, that is a bold statement indeed! Poverty and hunger, suicidal loneliness, political and racial hatreds, people […]

The Early Ekklesia’s Anatomy vs. The Modern-Day Church Let’s find out. This article is from my friend Buff Scott, Jr. You can find out more about Buff, sign up for his newsletter or download his three books by clicking here. When we reflect upon the early ekklesia and compare it to the contemporary church, we […]

Great insight from Mark Lake as he describes the organic church. “By “organic church,” I mean a non-traditional church that is born out of spiritual life instead of constructed by human institutions and held together by religious programs. Organic church life is a grass roots experience that is marked by face-to-face community, every-member functioning, open-participatory […]

From Reformation Rumblings by Buff Scott, Jr. My brothers, show no partiality…For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, ‘You sit here in […]

Below is an article from Reformation Rumblings by Buff Scott, Jr. entitled “Taking Another Look at The First Century Assemblies”. If you’re interested in receiving his weekly emails please contact me. Buff writes on a variety of subjects. To find out more about Buff click here. Thank you. An interesting concept is that the early […]