"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...
"Our Postmodern culture has concluded that it can manifest 'good deeds' without Jesus. The Church has concluded that it can manifest Jesus without 'go...
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...
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, w...
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...
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 ...
"Would You disciple us?" How would you answer that question? According to the author, those were the fateful words which generated this book. Why? Because that simple question embodies a very real and practical challenge. How do we intentionally disciple those who are seeking to become disciples of the Kingdom? This book, along with its companion Volumes, represents the author's personal answer to the challenge and the question. Discipleship and the Kingdom of God were at the heart of Jesus' ministry. But today's Church is failing to teach the Kingdom or to make disciples who can reproduce...
"Would You disciple us?" How would you answer that question? According to the author, those were the fateful words which generated this book. Why? Bec...
