Christ in Y’all by Neil Carter, explains in simple, conversational language what it means to encounter God in community outside an institutional/traditional setting.

I recently purchased the MP3 subscription to the OneThing 2008 conference in Kansas City. Although I did not attend OneThing, a friend of mine explained to me the major points that Mike Bickle would be discussing during the conference. Hearing the material provoked me to purchase the messages and make them freely available on RawReligion.com.

Australian missiologist Michael Frost talks about what it means to be the missional church. According to Frost, the journey towards a missional mindset requires a complete and utter recalibration in the Christian paradigm. It is a fundamental call to orient everything we do around the issue of mission.

What would you do if you met someone you thought just might be one of Jesus’ original disciples still living in the 21st Century? That’s Jake’s dilemma as he meets a man who talks of Jesus as if he had known him, and whose way of living challenges everything Jake had previously known.

According to Viola, the first-century church, which should be our pattern, met in homes without any official pastor. All members of the church were involved in worship, spontaneously breaking out with teaching or song as they were moved. Decisions were not made until everyone reached consensus. There were no official leaders or elders, but there were men who served and taught and helped others, thus leading by example.