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."

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