Bøger af Gale Arlene Smith

Safe Houses of Hope and Prayer is the second installment in a two-part introduction to organic house church. This second book picks up where the first book, River Houses Rising, left off. Where that book laid the foundation for organic house church, this book builds on that foundation by offering practical insights into the day-to-day functioning of an organic house church, including: The danger of trying to drive "religious square pegs" into "spiritual round holes"; How John Wesley discovered and used house churches during the Evangelical Awakening; How to avoid "Honey, I Shrunk The Church"; How to avoid having your house church "torpedoed" by the "messiness" of life; How to use a shipwreck to identify the five leadership gifts of the New Testament Church; Whether or not to meet on the "Sabbath"; How to avoid "a shirt and ten shekels" while embracing the New Testament call to "radical sacrificial giving"; Why false teachers are to the New Testament what false prophets were to the Old Testament. How you and your house can become "legendary"; And much more!

River Houses Rising represents the first installment in a two-part introduction to organic house church. Maurice Smith weaves together history, theology and extensive personal experience in the organic house church movement to explore: Why traditional church attendance has fallen by half in the past generation while participation in organic house churches is growing around the world; The critical role of organic house church in the coming end-time revival and harvest; Why present day institutional churches are inadequate vessels for preserving the fruit of the coming harvest; God's "math problem" and how organic house churches can solve it; Why organic house churches represent the only vehicle for fulfilling the Great Commission in our lifetime; Understanding the differences between rabbits, elephants and mules; The need for organic house churches to network together for greater effectiveness; How the organic church in your house can become a key part of what God is doing in our day; The difference between a religion-shaped spirituality and a Jesus-shaped spirituality; The relationship between organic house church and the Kingdom of God; What it means to be an "end-times" Church; And much more!