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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle III: Train Members to be Generalists, not Specialists

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

Division of labor is such a fact of life today that it’s hard for us to even imagine what it would look like to be a church where every member is called—and trained hard and weekly—to do every ministry task. … 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

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

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”?

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

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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