The early doctrine of the church (ecclesiology) included the following elements: • They met in homes -- "house to house" openly (Acts 2:46) • Worship was participatory rather than a spectator sport (Acts
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The early doctrine of the church (ecclesiology) included the following elements: • They met in homes -- "house to house" openly (Acts 2:46) • Worship was participatory rather than a spectator sport (Acts
In my book Dancing with Dinosaurs (1993) I had a chapter in which I said adult Sunday School was coming to an end and was being replaced by small groups that meet in
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Some time ago I ran across a bare list of practices of missional churches by an anonymous person. The list has been sitting in my “to do” box until this morning when I