Rediscover the Practice of the Early Church
Did you know that the widespread evangelical assumption that there is little scriptural guidance concerning church practice is indeed not scriptural?
Have you ever wondered why there are so many varieties of churches in the modern world, different from each other although most of them would claim that they possess scriptural warrant for the way they do church?
Have you ever longed for the kind of church life that you see revealed in the New Testament?
Consensus church government by pastoral persuasion gives many advantages: maturity for the saints, knowing the mind of Christ, church unity, and an edifying decision-making process. This scriptural form of church government will also enable church leaders to lead more like Jesus.
In this course you will learn how the traditions of men have obscured the meaning and practice of the most important Christian ritual. You will learn how the Lord’s Supper was originally a feast of joy, an instrument of unity, a weekly reminder to the Lord of his promised return, and how the Agape Love Feast is, in fact, the chief reason that Christians should gather together.
Did Jesus intend churches to have thousands of members? Is bigger better? Did you know that for the first two hundred years of the Christian church, believers met almost exclusively in private homes? Did you know that smaller churches have many advantages over larger churches? Did you know that every NT letter written to a church was written to a church that met in someone’s home? Did you know that most activities prescribed for churches can only function in a small church?