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This is from Dave Black’s blog (yesterday, June 3, 2010 at 8:05 p.m.): La totalité de l’église c’est pour saint Paul le fait primaire, sa localisation en est seulement un corallarie. [My translation: "The whole church is for St. Paul the primary thing, its locality is only a corollary."] This is still exactly how I feel and think about the church today! For Paul, every local church is nothing more than the representation of th...

All believers are travelers… walking the way of Jesus through a land that is not our home. The church is composed of those traveling companions who are walking with Jesus together with you. Jesus promised that we would not walk alone. He is with us… indwelling us with his Spirit. He is also with us through the interactions and relationships with our traveling companions. We never walk alone, even when we are alone. On the other hand, ...

Often, we talk about how we use words. So, for instance, many people will say, “We don’t go to church; we are the church.” But, one of the first things we often ask other believers is this: “Where do you go to church?” If we ask that question, aren’t we perpetuating the idea that “church” is a place you go? So, what question should we be asking? Like Unlike Related Posts:Are you a disciple of Jesus...

The discussion about the church is ongoing… and probably always will be… and that’s good thing. We should constantly consider who we are in Christ and what that means to how we live with other believers and how we interact with those who are not believers. Two years ago, I wrote a blog post called “Re-defining the church.” In that post, I suggested that we’re having trouble “defining” the church tod...

so, this afternoon, inspired by our earlier conversation, I started talking with a couple of brothers about another question related to defining the church – or answering the question “what is a church”. If five people are regularly in the same place at the same time once per week, but those five people never see one another, much less speak to or interact with one another, are those five people church together? What would your ...

I’m enjoying the discussion on my post “Church in a coffee shop.” We’re discussion identity and function as it relates to the church. We’re also talking about intentionality. Sometimes its difficult to separate these issues. Can we separate the identity (being) of the church from the function (doing) of the church? Would a group of people need to intentionally recognize themselves as the church in order to be a churc...

There is alot of discussion (both on this blog, in “real life”, and other places) about what constitutes a church. The lines are often blurred along the distinctions of identity, function, etc. Of course, as in all of these kinds of cases, evidence from Scripture, history, tradition, experience, reason, etc. are usually tossed and mixed together and filtered to come with the “right” answer. But, still the talk continues. I...

I read two good descriptions/definitions of the church this morning: The first was from Guy at “the M blog” in his post “Definitions of church“: A New Testament church is a small local gathering of believers usually meeting in homes. They are knitted together as a spiritual family with Christ as Head. Everyone contributes towards mutual edification out of what has been given to them by the Lord. Churches are characterized ...

I wrote the post “Answers to Questions” about three years ago in response to my first blogiversary post. I thought it would be interesting to re-post it. I’d love to hear your thoughts on my “answers.” ——————————————– Answers to Questions Last week, I celebrated my first anniversary of blogging. In my blogiversary post, I listed...

I wrote the post “Answers to Questions” about three years ago in response to my first blogiversary post. I thought it would be interesting to re-post it. I’d love to hear your thoughts on my “answers.” ——————————————– Answers to Questions Last week, I celebrated my first anniversary of blogging. In my blogiversary post, I listed...