"Our Postmodern culture has concluded that it can manifest 'good deeds' without Jesus. The Church has concluded that it can manifest Jesus without 'good deeds'. Our Postmodern culture's plan appears to be working. The Church's plan is a disaster." - Maurice Smith, from The Least of These With these words author and organic house church advocate Maurice Smith highlights the need and sounds a clear call for Christians and organic house churches to become "incarnational" and "legendary" in their obedience to the Scriptural mandate to engage in "good deeds." Drawing on history, in-depth biblical...

If Jesus were to visit your house church the same way He promised to visit the house churches 1st Century Asia Minor in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3, what would He find and what would He say? Would he find more "work" than love? Would He find compromise? Complacency? False teachers exercising false authority? Or would he find faithfulness and perseverance in the face of overwhelming pressure to compromise? Would He find a holy and pure Church walking in the fear of God, in genuine repentance and in personal intimacy with the Risen Christ? And would His words to you be words of rebuke and...

The Church of the early 21st Century needs something that only God can give. He has done it in the past, and He can do it again. But it will not come by means of any program, activity or act of self-effort. It is a sovereign act of God in response to and in fulfillment of the heart-cry found In Isaiah 64:1, "Oh, that Thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down." The Church of our generation desperately needs a divine visitation, a burning coal fresh from God's altar that turns smart Christians into flaming radicals - carriers of that "inextinguishable blaze" which, throughout the history of...