Church
I believe we have grown so accustomed to services as we know them, that we need to question our assumptions and recalibrate our understanding of many basic concepts. For instance,
Luke 22:7-13 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, 'Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.' 'Where do you want us to prepare for it?' they asked. He replied, 'As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' He will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. Make preparations there.' They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
Jesus Style
Material drawn from: Organic Church, Church 3.0 by Neil Cole and The World needs more Elders by PJ Smythe.
One day a group of people turned up in town. Some we knew, but most were strangers – and there were some white people with them. They told us about Jesus and healed some who were sick. They travelled from house to house and then from village to village baptizing those who wanted to follow Jesus. We needed to learn more about this Jesus so they urged us to come to some meetings in town. To start with we met in a borrowed Lutheran church building.
Jesus did not make a big thing of commands. He didn't leave us with the Ten Commandments of Christ, indeed most of his instructions are hidden in his sermons and parables and don't come across like commands. But there are two prominent exceptions.
I believe we have grown so accustomed to services as we know them, that we need to question our assumptions and recalibrate our understanding of many basic concepts. For instance,