WHERE DO YOU GO TO CHURCH? THOUGHT 1.1 MOBILITY
From Scot Mathis. "Maybe a better model is that road-warrior of the modern era, the mobile professional? He is constantly in communication with his coworkers and clients. He takes his own resources with him where ever he goes. He's seldom in the office, but he's always in touch. Meetings can happen anywhere, anytime. He lives and dies by his cell phone and laptop computer but his entire purpose is to be able to interact with real people at their own locations.
My church isn't what you'd call organic, but if it was and if people asked where I went to church, I might answer, "we're on the road a lot."" SM
AJ - Scot, I think the idea of mobility helps us think more about what we call church. For example, the Apostle Paul, who has influenced much of what we do as church. WHERE DID PAUL GO TO CHURCH? PAY HIS TITHE? TAKE OUT MEMBERSHIP?
Was his band of people any less church than those that met in Lydia's house?
Operation World's Patrick Johnstone has some great thoughts in his book, "The Church is Bigger Than You Think". He argues that the church has always existed in three distinct forms - Ecclesiastic (gathering structure) Monastic (training structure - he uses a different word than I) and Apostolic (sending, mobile structure). He also believes that we have got ourselves into trouble by allowing the Ecclesiastic to take over and move the others to the lesser status of non-church or para-church. Patrick suggests that what is really needed today is the emergence of NEW FLUID APOSTOLIC STRUCTURES.
