NewChurchLife

Check out www.simplechurchinfo.com for ideas on simple church – and there is also a page on small groups that is very helpful. While the material on simple church is designed specifically for Adventists, others will also find this an excellent resource.

Alphabet City Cafe is a bustling commercial cafe on High Street, Northcote (an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia). There are four or five large crowded rooms - walls decorated with the works of local artists - where friends meet for coffee or a meal to talk, read, catch up. The rooms are open to each other - [...]

As the demographics of the northern suburbs of Melbourne changed, what were once vibrant churches declined. Northern Community Church of Christ came about through the merging of four of these dying churches. But this was not just a survival strategy. Phil McCredden – who has been the team leader for 12 years – had the [...]

Check out Dan Kimball’s book They like Jesus but not the Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007), David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons', unChristian (Grand Rapids, USA: Baker Books, 2007) and the Adventist Review article “They Love Jesus, They Don’t Love the Church”. The Review article gives an introduction – but a thoughtful church planter or leader [...]

There are no doubt many reasons for this development, including (1) it is the way church existed in the early centuries – and there is a strong desire to return to ‘original’ Christianity, (2) it is ‘simple’ – without the complexities of structure and the exhaustion of trying to keep a performance type church on [...]

It does not involve keynote speakers - but just groups pleading for nothing else but an outpouring of the “latter rain” of the Holy Spirit. Check out Global Rain pages and ideas!

This is a special report in the Adventist Review - taken from Outreach Magazine. While some congregations build bigger facilities, other faith groups are starting a new trend in worship. See how by clicking on this link. http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=857  (First published in the Jan-Feb 2003 edition of Outreach Magazine )