Frank Viola in his book ‘Reimagining Church’ highlights that there were four different types of meetings evidenced in the pages of the NT.  They were: Apostolic Meetings Evangelistic Meetings Decision-making Meetings Church Meetings Apostolic meetings were those where the apostles would ‘preach’ to an interactive audience.  ‘Preaching’ was rarely monologius, mainly interactive.  The aim of … More Types of Early Church meetings

I found this good article (below) which presents the model of ‘open participatory meetings’ very well in a condensed version.  Enjoy reading.  I will do a midrash on it, adding my comments on it over the next week or so.   Additionally, you might want to look at the follow up to ‘Pagan Christianty’ by Frank … More Participatory Church Meeting

Before resigning as a Salvation Army officer, I wrote a series of articles which were my reflections on leadership.  If you read my previous blog, you may remember it.  If not, you can read it here as it was published in this SA journal.  It was a culmination of years of ‘working out’ the deep … More My shock