the simple line of church planting
OK I confess all, I'm becoming a bit of a Guy Muse groupie! But I couldn't pass this one up, it's excellent. The M Blog:

"Bach was a master of what is called "line." No matter how a particular work is written or for how many instruments, you can always detect a sense of a line in the music... The sensation of a musical line is amazingly unbroken as the melodies pass from one register to another... The test is this - if you attempt to sing along, you will find it very easy to sing the line.

Does that not speak to our work as church planters? Amen? If you didn't catch it, read it again, sloooooowly.

What does "line" have to do with church planting?

In all that we do, there must be a clear and simple "line" that all can identify and hum along with. Maybe that is why the term "simple church" is better suited to what we do than house church. We need a simple melody that everyone can sing. There might be a lot of activity going on all around the melody, but all should be able to clearly hear the simple "line" and hum along. If they can't, what is being done is just too complicated. Some work needs to be done to further simplify."

He also has a post before this one about how the missionaries facilitated the local leaders as they studied, prayed and discussed the issue of whether women can baptise. These guys are Southern baptists btw!

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