Category Archives: Video

Unchurching: The Exodus from Institutional Forms of Church — Richard Jacobson | TEDxPaloAltoCollege

Please take a few minutes to watch, and really listen to Richards Ted-Talk presentation:  Unchurching - The Exodus from Institutional Forms of Church.

In this talk, former minister and author, Richard Jacobson, discusses a trend happening in the WORLD - people leaving institutional forms of church in large numbers for a different way to express spirituality. (video below).

Originally Communities met in homes...

Unchurching (Ted Talk/VIDEO) - The Exodus from Institutional Forms of Church -- Richard Jacobson

For those of you who have departed organized religion and now find yourself without 'church' or fellowship, watching this video will bring comfort

Richard Jacobson quit his full-time job as a pastor in 2003 because he was having a crisis of faith. He wasn’t having doubts about God... he was having doubts about the way people 'do' church today.  The first christian churches were simple communities, but many of today’s churches have become corporations.

Jacobson’s work comes as more and more people are disengaging with churches in the U.S., and his idea suggests that spirituality is more fully experienced in a less traditional intimate community. Richard now helps moderate a rapidly growing online community of “unchurching” Christians from all around the world.

Watching this video will be a relief to many who have left the institutional church and to those who never graced the door of building for the fear they would be swallowed up by it... Please share if you have enjoyed this video so that others can know that they are not alone.

Ekklesia: Lost Word of the Bible

What is the EKKLESIA? Where and when did it originate?  

Has the concept of the body of Christ been misunderstood for centuries? 

 

Modern English language Bibles quote Jesus as saying, "I will build my church."  However, the earliest Bibles have Jesus saying, "I will build my ekklesia."  For hundreds of years, this Bible word-switch has misdirected the way the body of Christ meets for worship. 

Below, is a great and very simple video clip on something many have asked.

Watch as Steve and Jay discuss what the Ekklesia is (Steve Simms is the author of: Beyond Church)

 

Living In Community – The Movie

A great short video...WORTH the watch!! 

I am convinced that even though we Christians in North America talk a lot about community and relationship, we really have no clue... myself included.

There needs to be a radical change in how we do life together in relationship.

Living In Community - The Movie

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It's not totally our fault. It just that our way of thinking and doing life... is all we have seen, been taught...what we are used to.

This mindset orchestrates and decides our way of life and even church.

And why churches met in homes in the early church. Actually doing life together DAILY... WITH... your church family like the early church did. Actually structuring our lives to do as much as we can TOGETHER... DAILY... and relying upon each other. Working together, living together, eating together, learning together, playing together, helping each other, serving each other, doing chores together, etc. It's no wonder everyone's needs were met in the early church....

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Grace Unlimited – You Tube – Music List

I have put together a few tunes on our YouTube page (under the 'playlist' section). One list has some of the more modern songs that we have done at church, and the other list with some of the more traditional hymns, again some with a slightly modern tune. (if you 'subscribe' you will be updated when anything new is added - please feel free to 'share'). When you click on the link to the video, at which point you will be in YouTube, on the right, at the top you will see "Grace Unlimited", click on that and you will be brought back to our page and playlist - these are desktop instructions). Hope you enjoy!! ...... Jo-Anne