Tag Archives: Lay Church

How to Start a Lay Church, Principle I: Don’t Make it Easy to Get In

Don’t set up silly human preconditions and barriers, either. But do make sure people are joining your lay church for the right reason, which is because they’re serious about growing to fullness in Christ. That’s what Jesus himself did, after … Continue reading

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Church is for Amateurs, Part III: The Doers of The Word Evangelical Church of the Fourth Order Springs to Life

So for the last several years we’ve been learning, along with North Korean Christians, how to do lay church—and it’s been beyond exciting to watch the results. In the time it takes American Christians to come to understand even the … Continue reading

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Church is for Amateurs, Part II: What’s a “Christian of the Fourth Order”?

In our last post we talked about how trying to develop a discipleship methodology for training North Korean underground Christians led us to an examination of the methodology of the current NK underground church, plus other underground churches throughout history … Continue reading

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