SimpleChurch Journal aka House Church Blog: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community

SimpleChurch Journal aka House Church Blog: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community: "The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community

Halter Hugh Halter and Matt Smay have written an interesting book on 'Creating Incarnational Community.' It's a good read. Following is not a book review, rather just some notes (and quotes) that I wrote after reading it:

Author Hugh Halter tells this story:

As I’m sitting at a Starbucks in the final week of editing this book, I just took a break to talk to a guy named Don. Don grew up in a non-practicing Catholic home, watched his father convert to a Seventh-Day Adventist tradition, but only remembers the types of meat he couldn’t eat. His wife hates the idea of God, and Don’s already expressed his disdain for organized church. Since he seemed open to talk, I lobbed up this question: 'If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with, who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone, regardless of behavior, to seek too, and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven, would you be interested?”

“Hell yes!” was his reply. He continued, “Are there churches like that?”

On belonging to those we are reaching:"