Thursday, July 22, 2010

Regeneration Church

I have been chatting to a friend of mine who runs a christian radio station here in Ireland, we had such an amazing chat.

The big topic that came up was about the organic church or the house church groups that have started to make it pretty big around the UK.

I love the idea of church planting, but one thing this friend made me realise was this "do we really want to start another church group, do we really want to take people out from within the churches that they are already part of?"

do we really want to split the church up anymore?

i said no.....

he then asked me what do you think needs to happen?

I said we need to send a teaching pastor and leaders into those dying churches and plant a new seed within it and Regenerate the body that is already there. We need to bring the heart of the gospel and the saving grace of Christ back into it.

But from my experience we need to hit tradition on the head...because the old ways of doing church in Ireland is full of man-made laws and dogma which has no place in Kingdom work of Christ...

There is a younger generation growing up that i call the Un-Churched....

They have been brought up with Religious hate and war...Catholic verses Protestants....

We need to get past this so we can move forward.

Regeneration of the dying churches is a way forward...

There is churches here in Ireland that are growing....spiritually and also by member's...we need to teach these member 's to grow and mature through the Word of God..so someday they can possibly work within these churches...

We need leaders who are rooted in the word...and who are willing to take a step to birth a new generation of Christian's.

Out with the Old ways and in with the New ways.....back to the Gospel...back to Jesus Christ....out with man-made laws...back in With Christ.....

Regeneration of the Church

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