I left the institutional church in 1988.
Since that time, I’ve gathered with numerous Christian communities under the headship of Christ. I’ve also been involved in founding some of these communities in different cities.
This eBook contains many of the lessons I learned during the uncommon journey.
My goal in publishing it is to encourage and equip Christian communities outside the religious system to discover how to meet under the headship of Christ and avoid the common hindrances to the journey.
This eBook is a supplement to my print book Finding Organic Church, which is also available in paperback and on Kindle and the Nook.
Contents
1. Twenty Common Mistakes Christians Outside the Organized Church Make
2. The Real Reason Why Christian Communities Fail
3. The Chief Killer of Body Life: Sowing Seeds of Discord
4. Having an Instinct for the Cross
5. Whatever Happened to Perseverance?
6. In Praise of Dry Spells
7. Living Without Offense
8. Whenever God is Moving Among a People, This Will Happen
9. Everybody’s Normal Until You Get to Know Them
10. The Wish Dream
11. Handling Problems in Christian Community
12. Five Ingredients for Sustaining Christian Community
13. The Deeper Meaning of Suffering
14. You Don’t Know What You Have Until . . .
15. The House Church Movement: Learning from the Past – Pioneering for the Future