Today's episode (#2) of Stories from the Revolution is a conversation with Wolfgang Simson in which we get to hear Wolf's story of how he began to follow Jesus. The author of Houses that Change the World a seminal book for the House Church Movement here in the United States since it?s publication, also shares his thoughts on the state of the Church, particularly the American Church.
In the conversation, which was recorded in Denver, Wolf and I refer to a diagram which he uses to teach people about a necessary process in which followers of Jesus transition from structures of church that hinder believers from offering and exercising their unique and God-given gifts, to a way of being church that allows for what God intended all along, a true priesthood of all believers. Wolf refers to this transitional process as "The 5 Steps of Apostolic Migration." Maurice Smith and the good folks at the Parousia Network have done an excellent job of taking Wolf's thoughts and explaining them in detail. Go here and scroll down until you see this diagram for further insights into Wolf's thesis.
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.
