Also in the November Issue

In addition to the Coverstory, there is an excerpt from Neil Cole's book entitled, Organic Church. I particularly like this statement:

We want to lower the bar of how church is done and raise the bar of what it means to be a disciple...

The conventional church has become so complicated and difficult to pull off that only a rare person who is a professional can do it every week. Many people feel that to lower the bar of how church is done is close to blasphemous because the Church is Jesus’ expression of the Kingdom on earth. Because church is not a once-a-week service but the people of God’s family, what they have actually done is the opposite of their intention. When church is so complicated, its function is taken out of the hands of the common Christian and placed in the hands of a few talented professionals. This results in a passive church whose members come and act more like spectators than empowered agents of God’s Kingdom.

Read more of the excerpt...