The more that I’m a part of the “simple church” or the “house church” there are more things that I appreciate about it.
For the past two months we have been engaged in a detailed study of the 119th Psalm. Each week we take it section by section and explore it in-depth. Last week we finished the eight section and I thought that would be a good point to take the time for a review. So after I finished teaching last week, I asked each person to come prepared to tell what they had learned from the study and how they were applying that knowledge.
Today I didn’t do all of the teaching. After reading the Scriptures, praying and some outstanding singing I opened up “the floor” and began to ask others what they had learned. I’m so happy to say that each person contributed something significant that they had learned and were beginning to put into practice. Could this have been done in a more “traditional” church setting? Of course it could have, probably not as easily and probably not as effectively.
As a pastor the kind of feedback I received this morning was invaluable, I learned as much this morning in sixty minutes what might have taken me months to learn in another kind of setting.
Yea, the more I’m a part of the organic, simple church model the more I like it!