We are working through redefining our people’s idea of what the church is at the same time kicking off opportunities for them to be the church Monday - Saturday and come together to celebrate and worship God together as a collective body on Sunday’s. I was looking around the web and found a church that is doing a similar idea called “Life Houses”. Epic City Church is also a doing a message series that is close to what we are doing soon and I can’t wait to see how they have done. Anyways, they use a great verse that we have over looked in Acts 5:42.

Acts 5:42 (NLT) “And every day, in the Temple and in their homes, they continued to teach and preach this message: “The Messiah you are looking for is Jesus.”

Why have we not done this before? How could we have over looked this passage for so long? I have noticed that some of the greatest golden nuggets in the Bible are found in little short passages like this one, but I have over looked them so many times and need to learn my lesson. Robbie is reading a book called The Present Future and he was saying that in it the guy who wrote it tries to prepare you for less, less people, less offering, less stuff to do. Is the (C)hurch, universal, afraid that if we begin to operate in homes and become what God had intent the church to be according to this verse we would have less funds to operate on, less people every week, less staff to run the lesser ministries we offer and do? A lot of people are saying be the church. But are we doing a good enough job of casting the vision that God has given for His church to His people? How can we better explain this idea? How can we live this idea? At Beachside we are giving our people the beginning ideas that we have for how to accomplish what we are calling mychurch. The first part of Robbie’s message on “mychurch” can be downloaded here

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