Frank Viola
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“In fact, I’ve met countless believers who have said, “The church is an organism, not an organization.” Yet as they formed those very words, they continued to be devout members of churches that were organized along the lines of General Motors and Microsoft.”
― Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity
― Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity
“ORGANIC CHURCH
The term organic church does not refer to a particular model of church. (We believe that no perfect model exists.) Instead, we believe that the New Testament vision of church is organic. An organic church is a living, breathing, dynamic, mutually participatory, every-member-functioning, Christ-centered, communal expression of the body of Christ.”
― Pagan Christianity: Exposing the Roots of Our Church Practices
The term organic church does not refer to a particular model of church. (We believe that no perfect model exists.) Instead, we believe that the New Testament vision of church is organic. An organic church is a living, breathing, dynamic, mutually participatory, every-member-functioning, Christ-centered, communal expression of the body of Christ.”
― Pagan Christianity: Exposing the Roots of Our Church Practices
“What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.” —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher”
― Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
― Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
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