I see an army part 8
“What gives the church cohesion in such a model? Its values and vision. When the values and vision are clearly understood by those who father and mother a movement, and they are clearly articulated for all to understand, and imparted through discipling relationships, the DNA of the movement takes hold in people’s hearts.

To the degree people in a movement of simple churches hold their values and vision in common, the movement does not need top-down ‘command-and-control’ church government.”
You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung

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I see an army part 7
“The latest research reveals that 3.3 billion people have never heard the name of Jesus one time. I love simple church because it makes church accessible to the greatest number of people. It doesn’t require a professional or a building or a charismatic personality to lead a simple church...

We teach people to be a servant leader who raises up others to carry the torch from the beginning. This is a new style of leadership that requires serving behind the scenes, being secure enough to be a coach to new leaders without position or title. The goal of a simple-church-planting movement is not being an up-front pastor or elder, but being a spiritual father or mother to a movement of elders and church planters...

There is still spiritual authority being exercised, but it is authority based on relationship. It is apostolic not hierarchical.”
You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung

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I see an army part 6
“The difference between complicated church and simple church is that the complicated church relies on programmes to disciple people, while simple church empowers people to disciple people...

Leadership in this family is about serving, not positions or titles. The man or woman who serves is greatest. When we attempt to decree who can serve, or the extent to which they have spiritual authority, we have moved out of sync with the Spirit of Jesus, because we have reverted back to the Old Covenant way of thinking.”
You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung

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I see an army part 5
“I believe there are distinct advantages to such a simple expression of church and ministry:
1. It is simpler to get things done
2. Accountability is more natural and powerful with 2 or 3 people
3. There is greater flexibility
4. Communication flows more easily with a small group of people
5. There is greater proximity to people who don’t know Jesus
6. Direction is more quickly and clearly confirmed in simple church
7. Leadership has to stay natural and relational
8. Multiplication can happen spontaneously as the group grows”
You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung

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I see an army part 4
“Apostolic leadership functions in a simple-church movement by pioneering new communities and ministries that are aimed at reaching those outside the church...

Apostolic leaders are groundbreakers and strategists who initiate new endeavours to ‘go where no one has gone before...

The ultimate purpose of the apostolic gift is gathering those who come to faith in Jesus into vibrant, reproducing, obedient communities of faith...

A movement is an attitude, a mindset that says, ‘we are not going to wait for history to happen, or watch it happen, we are going to make it happen’...

Apostolic leadership yearns for the ‘not yet’. Dreaming, faith, imagination, risk taking, pioneering and future goals characterise apostolic leadership.”
You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung

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I see an army part 3
“I believe in simple church for several reasons...

A small church is able to keep on going when all else fails. Further, small groups of Jesus-followers are easily reproducible. People can’t hide or get lost in a small community. Caring for one another is made easier because everyone knows each other...

simple expressions of church, like a cell group or a house church, can function in closer proximity to those who don’t know Jesus by meeting in homes, businesses, on campuses etc.”
You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung

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Thanks for these posts – great stuff!

Being flexible to move and change, accessible by people who have no traditional church background or people that are turned off by church, and reproducible by normal people - these are the major reasons why we have moved toward simple church/house church.

We don't have leaders who are spectators or any pew-sitters - there are no pews! There are no superstars, and no one has to be part of reaching people for Christ.

The ultimate reason for our shift: less people going to Hell, more people going to heaven.

Scott in Las Vegas
www.cells-twelves.blogspot.com

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I see an army part 2
“We need more than new models; we need a new paradigm of church and the right core values to empower us to live what we believe...

The challenge before us is major reformation, not tweaking the meeting format...

Jesus defined leaders in the new way of doing things as servants. If leaders are servants, anyone who serves Gods people through their gifts, leads.

In the religious systems of his day, religious rulers used religion to control people. When Jesus came he turned everything on its head: he made EVERYONE who believed in him a leader.”
You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung

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I see an army part 1
Here are a series of posts quoting from Floyd McClungs latest book on movements of simple churches.

“I have a conviction: the way we do conventional church is no longer relevant to the vast majority of unchurched people in the West...

I don’t think one model of church is better than any other, but I do believe the more complicated we do church, the more difficult it is to reproduce...The more complicated and bigger a local church becomes, the more people and the more money it takes to lead one person to Christ...

I believe the effectiveness of any movement that makes a lasting impact will be measured by how effective it is in fostering a culture of discipleship that thrusts its members out amongst the lost...”

You see bones I see an army, Floyd McClung.

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