House2House and Karis Publishing have put together this great video about the growth of the simple church movement. Listen to leaders and influential thinkers speaking out on this exciting new movement and then check out the links below:
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.