the encounter » soul city http://www.encounterthis.com/blog join the conversation. share your thoughts. help one another in the journey of life. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:36:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 7 is greater than 1 http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/encounter/7-is-greater-than-1/ http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/encounter/7-is-greater-than-1/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:19:37 +0000 Jonathan Blundell http://www.encounterthis.com/blog/?p=689 As a follow-up to our discussion about rethinking church at the Men’s What-a-Study last week, this week I asked the other guys what their church would look like if they removed all their prejudices from the past and started with nothing but their knowledge of Scripture and a blank sheet of paper.

We agreed on several points…

  • participation by all
  • dialogue vs monologue
  • strong community
  • a people on mission – sent out into the community

The conversations and additional ideas that were brought up were great.

Then later that night, I came across this video from Soul City Church (a church launching in Spring 2010), sharing some of their vision for a new kind of church…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Does this video spark your imagination? Does it even seem possible? Could/would you take part in church 7 days a week? What about 5, 3 or 2?

HT to @churchbartender for the video

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