So how does one go about planning a local gathering of Christian community? The short answer: pray a lot and dive in if you believe the Spirit is leading you there. A longer answer: pray a lot, and dive in if you believe the Spirit is leading you there. Ok, there's a little more. I'm speaking ...
Category Archives: Two42
Why Two42 /or/ Just another anti-church movement?
I confess: I am overly critical of the Church as a whole. I tend to point and call names and criticize with piss and vinegar. It's not that I don't like Church... far from it. I'm just cynical. I've seen too many self-help movements masquerading as church. I've seen too many believers being hurt by church ...
Saint Patrick’s Breastplate
Any worthy endeavor of Christians in the world begins with prayer. Being a fan of Saint Patrick (or at least his legend), I offer you Saint Patrick's Breastplate. If you so choose, let it be a daily reminder that the Spirit of God sustains you and moves in and through you and your community to ...
Many things coming
Just to let everyone know, we'll be in a bit of a start/stop state while we get things ramped up around here. I know Aaron has a couple things in the works (aside from the awesome site design he's done), and I have a batch of ideas to get the conversations started. We have a ...
beginnings: guidelines for who we hope to be
One of the inevitable questions that must be addressed with a project like this has to do with beliefs. What is your statement of faith? Are you part of a denomination? You don't let apostates and heretics in here, do you? While the goal is to be broad enough to accomodate and support churches from many ...
So what is all this? (part 2)
In part 1, I gave a little of the background influences that forms my thinking about what Two42.net is attempting to accomplish. So now the question is this: just what is it we're doing here? A good summary from my friend and fellow contributor, Aaron Smith, says: Two42 is "an organic network to support ...
So what is all this? (part 1)
In the spring of 2010, I was in the second of a series of New Testament introduction courses in seminary. Our professor, Dr. Thorsten Moritz, is an advocate for house churches. One of the books we were given to read is Paul's Idea of Community by Robert J. Banks. While not completely against ...
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