Jim and Cathy Mellon, who oversee a network of home churches in Killeen, Texas, have a rare and remarkable story of the impact that small home churches can have on a community when giving dollars are freed up from having to support big buildings and budgets.
In this 15 minute excerpt of a longer conversation I had with them (and which will be available for you in its entirety soon), Cathy tells the story of how their home church network was able to help start and support Pregnancy Alternative Centers in Central Texas.
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.
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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.