The Zombie Bride Lives

This title of a chapter in the book Organic Church reminded me of a combination of Ian's post about Anne Rice becoming a Christian..she is the author of vampire books...plus Ian's Zombie Popper Party announcement. The book chapter is actually about the modern American Church, the Bride fo Christ...which he author once envisioned as being a bride lying on a couch in a half dead zombie state, in need of a breath of fresh air. He says, "I knew this vision was the picture of the church in Amercia today: sick, kept alive by a supernatural force, but believing she was quite healthy and ready to meet Jesus. The hope is that a breath of fresh air and light is coming soon."

The author, Neil Cole, and his wife left the church he was pastoring to start an Organic Church they called Awakening in Long Beach,CA and ended up founding Church Multiplication Associates, a support ministry which exists to help people start up small, simple, highly replicatable and missional churches in the places where the people are: coffee shops, clubs, restaurants, work places, parking lots, houses, etc. "Go to them, don't expect them to come to us", is one of his big points. They now know of 700 churches in 32 states and 23 nations which have begun as a result of the intial network of small churhces they started 6 years ago!

I just started this book tonight. I am sure I will be posting more about it on my Musings From Shute-Ho blog if you are interested. On another note: today I posted about the bob cat we saw.....

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