I feel like I am always throwing out random thoughts and quotes from people I'm reading and / or listening to. Not always the most original blogger, but here goes a new thought from a new book I started last night by German Wolfgang Simson: Houses That Change The World.
"I dreamed of a community that is a s simple as one-two-three, yet is dynamic; an explosive thing, able to turn the world and a neighborhood upside-down. The church as a supernatural invention, endowed with God's gift of immortality; a means to disciple each other, and to make the life of Jesus rub off on each other.
A church, which does not need huge amounts of money, or rhetoric, control and manipulation, which can do without powerful and charismatic heroes, which in non-religious at heart, which can thrill people to the core, leave them speachless with joy and astonishment, and simply teach us The Way to live. A church which not only has a message, but is the message. Something which spreads like an unstoppable virus, infects whatever it touches, and ultimately covers the earth with the glory and knowledge of God. A church whose power stems from its inventor.
The church I dreamed of is like a spiritual extended family - organic, not organized, relational, not formal.
A church that can multiply like five loaves and two fish in the hands of Jesus, where it's people are its resources.
God is changing the church, and that, in turn, will change the world. Church as we know it is preventing Church as God wants it."
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