Church Without a Building?
A leader of the house church movement in the U.S. says believers must put hands and feet to the gospel in order to impact those outside the church.
Ken Eastburn is elder of The Well church, a network of home-based churches in Colorado and California. Recently, he encouraged organizations, such as the National Association of Evangelicals, to put more emphasis on people, as opposed to programs.
“Our building had become an anvil around our necks, strangling the life out of our church body,” describes The Well’s website. By taking the building out of the equation, the church transformed from one “of stone and steel to a living, breathing church of flesh.”
Eastburn says the model for true Christian involvement is found in the parable of the Good Samaritan.
“The first thing he did, he saw the problem,” the ministry spokesman explains. “He was aware. He didn’t just pass by. And when he saw the problem he had some compassion and then he went the extra mile. He was generous.”
Eastburn says more programs are not needed in the church in America. Instead, he says a focus on Christian justice and local outreach should be of primary importance to believers in the United States.
(Source: OneNewsNow)
