Posted 6/30/07 updated 12/28/08
Dan Trotter, Beresford Job, Steve Atkerson, Dan Walker, Jon Zens
6/30/07
Back in 2002, I was very grateful to see that various house church leaders were willing to confront controversies of leadership and doctrine when they published articles warning about Gene Edwards.
Dan Trotter, Beresford Job, Steve Atkerson, Dan Walker, Jon Zens all took part in writing the article that documented years of experience at persevering in love with a problematic movement among house churches.
Now I ask that we consider together, how much we can differ on the atonement of Jesus Christ and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and yet still draw a line against heresy.
Also, just how dangerous to the truth is the Emergent – Emerging Church movement and Contemplative Spirituality? How shall we reason with one another about these trends within Evangelicalism in general, and house church people in particular?
Storytelling or Myth-Making? Frank Viola and Ivan Illich
House Church People…
We need to have a discussion!
6/23/07
In April I linked to Tim Germain’s site, https://www.churchinthehouse.org. In May I recommended a dvd that Tim has produced: In Search of the Biblical Church.
I still think that the dvd is great at helping people see what New Testament fellowship can be. But, my interactions with several people since recommending the dvd has made me see that we, as believers in Jesus, must get some things out in the open. We must discuss some very important issues. What is the truth? How do we stand for the truth as we understand it, and yet give others the freedom to disagree? Where do we draw the line?
Believers in Jesus who fellowship in house churches and all other believers in Jesus must discuss, among other things, two topics that have come to my attention:
I intend to post more on this.
Please email me with your input.
Return to Issues of Concern
- Article by some house church leaders about Gene Edwards
- Gene Edwards – a movement leader
- Dan Trotter – of House Churches
- House Church Discussion
- Frank Viola’s Newsletter April 2006 Promoting Contemplative Spirituality
- Storytelling or Myth-Making? Frank Viola and Ivan Illich
- Frank Viola – MinistryMind
- Frank Viola, George Barna, & the Emerging Church
- Link between Contemplative & New Thought Movements: Brother Lawrence
- The “House Church Movement”
- Four Ways Christians Are Deceived
- Frank Viola Promoting Contemplative Spirituality
Churchianity – Issues of Concern Among Christians – Counterfeit Christianity