A couple of weeks ago, I started making a point of reading blogs of others writing from a simple church point of view, and realized the obvious thing that others have written about some of the subjects I am looking to cover better than I could, sometimes due to their having experience that I do not. As on this one, a five minute time frame will allow most of this blog entry to be read, I refer to the original posting.
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My name is Tom; this is Simple Church Minute. What is God’s purpose in creating us humans and putting us on earth?
The main theme in many traditional evangelical churches is evangelism, but there was time before Genesis 3 when that was irrelevant, and when we reach the future time of Revelation 21, it will be again.
Liberal or progressive churches emphasize doing good, but the same hold true for that goal. Author Milt Rodriguez blogged,
(miltrodriguez.wordpress.com blog of 7/6/2011, with the third and fourth paragraphs edited due to the sentences fitting a blog, but would not fit being read aloud, and outside a blog context)
A family, a house, a bride, a body, a temple; there’s more meaning in that phrase than I can touch on in a couple of minutes. These concepts are developed in detail in Frank Viola’s book, From Eternity to Here.
You can find out more about simple, non-corporation oriented manners of worshipping Jesus at
www.hrscn.org.
You can contact me at ________(email) or ______(phone).
You can find a transcript of what I just said at tevyebird.blogspot.com in the blog dated July 19, 2011.
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