In this episode (#4) of Stories from the Revolution, I talk with Tony Collis of Wellington, New Zealand. Tony has been a leader in the Kiwi Church, and his focus is on helping people learn how to plant and lead "Micro Churches."
In this conversation, Tony shares about his own process of how God has moved him from being a man full of busyness and activity on behalf of the Kingdom, to being a man who is learning to listen and follow the Spirit. He also shares about the impact this way of "Being Church" has affected his family, particularly his children.
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.