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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
How Does a cell form?
How does a cell form? Well, that's sort of the mystery of it all. God seems to be working in mystgerious ways to bering two and three people together. Sometimes it is a chance meeting, maybe it is a remark from a mutual friend, but there is a feeling that developes between two and more people that there is a mysterious connection God is making for them.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
What is Do It Yourself (DIY)?
Any why call it DIY? When a couple of committed believers get together and click on what they are thinking, then they have the start of a network or cell. They don't have to wait around for a denomination to tell them what to think. They don't have to wait around for a proscribed service that or may not allow them a religious experience.
When they can read the bible and seek solace from what they read, then they are having a religious experience. When they can share their thoughts with each other, and others who have joined them, then they have a cell, a network with each other, where in they can experience a sense of salvation.
Is this cell closed to outsiders, to other thoughts? No, it is open source networking. It is free to enjoy and enter into new ideas. It is DIY Salvation.
When they can read the bible and seek solace from what they read, then they are having a religious experience. When they can share their thoughts with each other, and others who have joined them, then they have a cell, a network with each other, where in they can experience a sense of salvation.
Is this cell closed to outsiders, to other thoughts? No, it is open source networking. It is free to enjoy and enter into new ideas. It is DIY Salvation.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Open Source Networking for Salvation
I read John Robb, John Arquilla, Robert Leonhard, Douglas Macgregor, Ralph Peters, James Martin and others on asymmetrical warfare and open source terrorist networking. Also networking is the new way to get things done in business and industry. So, is it beginning to happen in the way Christians come together in the organizational church?
Young, well-educated, knowledge workers, are self motivated for a purpose, do a job and get on. This is a characteristic mind set of the Information Age. If this way is so successful in business and commerce, military and government, is it applied to Christians looking to live out their faith, to have a religious experience, and to demonstrate love for others?
The established congregational church, the way church was for hundreds of years, is having trouble making itself seem relevant to today's seeking believers. I heard a comment from a "missionary" in England saying networking through purpose oriented groups is the way seekers are finding faith. George Barna, a trends evaluator who writes on church and Christian topics, reports in "Revolution" that young seekers are finding solutions through networking. It is a new generational way to celebrate Christianity.
Cells of seekers and believers are forming when two to five like minded individuals start sharing their belief. The cell will grow to about 12 - 15 members and then will split into more groups due to circumstances of work requirements, living locations, and changes in lifestyles and other reasons for moving on.
Young, well-educated, knowledge workers, are self motivated for a purpose, do a job and get on. This is a characteristic mind set of the Information Age. If this way is so successful in business and commerce, military and government, is it applied to Christians looking to live out their faith, to have a religious experience, and to demonstrate love for others?
The established congregational church, the way church was for hundreds of years, is having trouble making itself seem relevant to today's seeking believers. I heard a comment from a "missionary" in England saying networking through purpose oriented groups is the way seekers are finding faith. George Barna, a trends evaluator who writes on church and Christian topics, reports in "Revolution" that young seekers are finding solutions through networking. It is a new generational way to celebrate Christianity.
Cells of seekers and believers are forming when two to five like minded individuals start sharing their belief. The cell will grow to about 12 - 15 members and then will split into more groups due to circumstances of work requirements, living locations, and changes in lifestyles and other reasons for moving on.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
The First Post for DIY Salvation
DIY Salvation is Do It Yourself Salvation. It is Christianity for the 21st Century. Is it Biblical Christianity? YES!!! Is it a new approach to the way of expressing the faith? YES!!!
DIY Salvation is based on Construct Relationships. It is based on Networks of believers. It is the 21st Century way of individuals working together for a common result. We see networks in business, in the military, in responsive social action, clearly in terrorist's groups, in the flat organizations that have replaced the hierarchical, military stacked method of doing work and activities in the industrial age economies.
First generation organization of Christianity was expressed in house-churches of the faithful as organized by the Apostle Paul. A Second generation organization was the Roman Catholic Church functioning as an empire throughout the world. The Third generatin organization of Christianity was the Protestant Reformation organizing believers along the lines of differing practices as dictated by hierarchial ogranizations such as Presbyterians, Methodusts, Lutherns and others.
Today a Fourth generation organization of practicing Christians is found in small, intense, network groups, formed when two of more believers come together to express their common worship of Christ and the Kingdom of God. The networks are flexible, adding and loosing membvers as people change jobs, change living arrangements, change school, etc. These networks are not made of those who want to live, believe, and work in team groups as the industrial society dictated.
Today's DIY Salvation network groups are made up of "knowledge workers" who think for themselves, who need to have intense spiritual experiences. They are the Christians who are spoken of in First John 2:20, "But you have been anoited by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge."
DIY Salvation is based on Construct Relationships. It is based on Networks of believers. It is the 21st Century way of individuals working together for a common result. We see networks in business, in the military, in responsive social action, clearly in terrorist's groups, in the flat organizations that have replaced the hierarchical, military stacked method of doing work and activities in the industrial age economies.
First generation organization of Christianity was expressed in house-churches of the faithful as organized by the Apostle Paul. A Second generation organization was the Roman Catholic Church functioning as an empire throughout the world. The Third generatin organization of Christianity was the Protestant Reformation organizing believers along the lines of differing practices as dictated by hierarchial ogranizations such as Presbyterians, Methodusts, Lutherns and others.
Today a Fourth generation organization of practicing Christians is found in small, intense, network groups, formed when two of more believers come together to express their common worship of Christ and the Kingdom of God. The networks are flexible, adding and loosing membvers as people change jobs, change living arrangements, change school, etc. These networks are not made of those who want to live, believe, and work in team groups as the industrial society dictated.
Today's DIY Salvation network groups are made up of "knowledge workers" who think for themselves, who need to have intense spiritual experiences. They are the Christians who are spoken of in First John 2:20, "But you have been anoited by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge."
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