I think we should stop talking about the inauguration. new church plants and instead refer to them as? agreement? for the first time.
I’m a church implanter. I learned from other planters, talked to planters, read planter upgrades, and read books about church planting. And we all say “Inauguration”.
Because?
I asked some people. His answers weren’t all the same. The most common definition I’ve heard is: “This is the date our plantation team” is made public. “When I keep asking if a member of the public could have attended the meetings before the inauguration, the common answer is “certainly. “
So what really happened when you opened, if the public had been able to participate sooner?Apparently, openness is different from having a child or getting married. You know when these things happen!
Here’s what I think the planters did: borrow a word from the business world to gain strength and bring a church to life from its inception.
Would you like to defend the use of the biblical word?to denote the beginning of a church, as in “We first agreed as a congregation on June 24. “
You can find an image of the exiles who have returned by renewing their covenant between them and with God in Nehemiah 9:32-38. And the brotherhood of a church is a kind of covenant, by which we affirm the professions of faith and This is the cumulative image seen in Matthew 16 when Jesus affirms the profession of Peter and Peter (v. 17), and is seen again (conversely) in Matthew 18 when the church withdraws its affirmation of someone’s profession of faith (v. 17).
What is a church?A society of people who agree on the same profession as the gospel. Through baptism and the Lord’s Supper, we participate together in this local covenant as our localized portrait of our belonging. (Bobby Jamieson, in his new book Going Public, describes baptism as the initial sign of the oath of the new covenant, and describes the Lord’s food as a sign of the oath of renewal of the new covenant. )
I don’t think the scriptures force us to use the word “talk about the creation of a church. “That doesn’t tell us we have to, and I’m not saying that either. In fact, I think the word usefully captures what happens in the scriptures when a group of Christians organizes in the church. Therefore, I suggest using this word as a “best practice”.
& Quot; Covenant & quot; it is more than exchanging one word for another. It communicates the idea that certain actions must take place to found a church, just as a marriage ceremony requires certain actions to occur in order for a man and a woman to unite under the marriage covenant.
First, agreeing requires that a certain set of expectations unite a group of Christians, just as biblical vows establish a set of expectations for a husband and wife; they are responsible for confirming each other’s evangelical professions and are responsible for overseeing the discipleship of all.
Second, agreeing requires a specific set of expectations to unite a specific group of Christians. It clearly shows who is really part of the church and who is not. Are we a town? Separated from the world.
At what point is the word weak and meaningless?Looks like it compares! Pact is a familiar word, an oath of blood, Inauguration is a word of the world of space travel and the industrial world.
Finally, the word covenant communicates the idea that the Church is a people and not an “event”.
If you enter through the back of the old meeting houses (as they were called), where the churches met, sometimes you can find a beautiful document called a church pact, this document would indicate the way of life that the church had agreed to live. In the end, there would be the signature of the church members.
I don’t want to attach much importance to what we call the beginning of a church; However, I believe that the word covenant will help guide our people to a richer, deeper and more biblical image of what is the life of the local church. is and what it is not, suggesting that this may be a practice that deserves to be recovered.
By: Nathan Knight. © 9Marks. Website: 9marks. org. Translated with permission. Source: Stop launching churches! Instead, Covenant Together.
Original: Establishing churches is more than opening, that’s fine!© Faithful Ministry. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br. All rights reserved. Translation: Camila Rebeca Teixeira. Review: André Alosio Oliveira da Silva.