Church

Some more thoughts from Hugh Halter's Tangible Kingdom.

"Church gatherings were never the intended goal; they were the natural result of people finding others who were living their alternative Kingdom story. The goal of our missional life is not to grow churches. The goal of church is to grow missionaries. The goal of the gospel is not to get people to church. The result of the gospel is that people will find each other and gather because of the deep meaning of a common experience."

"What we are learning is that God's church can be natural, and it will emerge anywhere an incarnational community exists. People will always be drawn to people who look, smell, and behave like Jesus, and if you're committed to caring for people who move toward Christ through you, church will become a labor of love for you as well. Fresh faces, new stories, and a web of relationships will witness to the tangible world Jesus called his Kingdom."

Check out this video (you may have to scroll down the page a bit)