10 Challenges

Another great blog post from a member in the Underground Network!  Read below and join in on the conversation.  You can find the original  post here.  Follow this blog at: http://kingdom1st.wordpress.com
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10 challenges to building relationships and sharing your faith in America today:
By seekingakingdom
Most people are…
1. transient – We live is such a mobile society that [...]

December 21, 2009

By Dr. Ben Toh
“The imperatives are based on the indicatives and the order is not reversible”
In June 2009, Bryan Chapell, the President of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis and the author of Christ-Centered Preaching, gave a lecture at the Advance09 conference in Durham, North Carolina titled “Communicating the Gospel through Preaching.” Regarding preaching (which also [...]

November 23, 2009

Churches are like Onions

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Layers of Church Community

It has been several years since we first asked the question, “Who was Jesus’ church?” but the question seems once again at the forefront of our dialogue in our house church network here in Chicago.  When God came to earth as Jesus, there is no doubt that he sought out to develop a spiritual family [...]

September 24, 2009
Discovery Bible Studies in Practice

In our last article, we wrote about a resource called Discovery Bible Studies designed to invite Christians AND seekers into experimenting with the teachings of Christ  even as they are weighing whether or not they believe in Christ.  In a sense, they are “acting their way into a new way of thinking.” This is a [...]

Obedience Based Discipleship – a House Church Resource

There are many ways to study the bible together – but how often does that study lead to actual obedience to God’s voice and to transformed lives?  We want our house church network to be one that “listens to Jesus and does what he says.”  Simply put – there are too many other voices in [...]