What does it all mean?

Sorry for the lapse. Not sure when I will regularly post.

I saw this on Alan Hirsch's site, with the question "What does it all mean?". My thought - it means that the movement of Christ cannot possibly move forward in this kind of culture without getting grassroots in nature.

There is no way a set of institutions can keep up. We need to get grassroots in our methodologies - which means letting go. Apple's iPods didn't reach 50 million in sales so quickly through traditional methods - I for one bought mine not when i heard what it was, but after seeing one in the hands of friends. And our churches most resemble with their forms old school structures that have virtually no influence in today's culture.

We need to focus on equipping. We need to focus on discipling, plain and simple, and let God lead the rest.

I've pointed it out before, and you know I'll say it again. Jesus said he would build HIS church. His instructions to us was to teach. We need to let go of building churches, planting churches, organizing churches, etc and do what we were originally instructed to do - teach. Not one guy teaching hundreds, as is typically in modern churches. But all of us. And the focus needs to be on teaching to follow Jesus. To hear his voice, to follow close. He will form his churches. He said he would.