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What I Love About the Church
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Two Churches I've Really Loved
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Northwest Fellowship – Genuine Community
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People Wanted to Be together
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They Loved Jesus
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The Salvage Yard – Active Engagement of Faith -
1st Place I've Seen Discipleship
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Nobody needed anyone's endorsement to do
something
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Ministry from the bottom up
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Search to find out How this kind of thing
happens
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My First Clue was in the idea of community
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Community = share something in common
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The Church is a community that has Jesus as its
center
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Jesus is a person (we proclaim what we have
seen, heard and touched
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Jesus is Communicated Through the Sharing of His
Words (Full Proclamation)
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Somehow the Word of God has the Power to create
Community – by revealing the Person of Jesus. - Quotes By Luther and Barth
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My second clue was from the idea of Emergence
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Didn't know what the Emerging Church Was
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Eben Moglen Article
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Faraday's Law – Argument against the necessity
of monetary incentives
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This was just the kind of Spontaneous process
that described what I found to be true in my church experiences with Northwest
and Salvage Yard.
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People drawn together in around the person of
Jesus
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People actively living out their faith in their
daily lives.
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Starting a Church
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A natural progression of the interest God has
placed in my heart
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A process of discovery
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Mary and Martha Luke 10:38-42
– being disciples.
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Relevant Church Scriptures
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God will build His Church
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Jesus Said – I will build my Church Matt 16:18
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Act's Says – The Lord Added to their number Acts 2:47
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I really want to see if how true that is.
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Can we build a church solely on relationships?
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Do we need Money or a Building?
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Can the church defy the Wisdom of the world
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The Word Creates and sustains the Church
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When we Lifting up Jesus (who is our Head)
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My Sheep know my voice John 10:26-27
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Through Separation
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Simeon, Luke 2:34-35
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Paul, 2 Corinthians
2:14-16
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Builds the church with people
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Distributing Gifts 1 Corinthians
12:18
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Living Stones 1 Peter 2:5
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Starting Small
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Ekklesia – Describes a gathering – Mob Acts
19:32
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All we need to Get started a common devotion to
Jesus
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However we may grow in the future – this is
enough to sustain us.
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Acts 2:41-47 - They devoted themselves to the
apostles teaching, fellowship, breaking
of bread, prayer.
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One More Example of Emergence
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Macro and Micro Level
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No ant is Smart enough to have designed the
Colony – Each Ant does its part
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The church is the small
