Ron and Don from Philly's Simple Church Network share a vision for cooperation and unity for churches of all shapes and sizes after an inspirational meal at the local Chinese buffet. Using the stunningly profound metaphor of a strip mall, they expound on how simple churches, people group spectific churches, larger anchor churches, and really big churches could benefit from working together.
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.