Turbo house church and prayer in Oslo
Greetings from Oslo, where this week 20 churches are praying and worshipping around the clock. A good setting to hang out and strategize with my Connect Europe friends Anne-Maria, Karl-Anders, Helena, Geir, Jan-Inge and Brydon. When I arrived yesterday, they immediately exposed me to their way of doing house church (rather turbo house church). A great meal with chicken, then communion and confessing sins, and finally moving into worship and prophetic dance until midnight. Who said house church was boring?
I'm staying at Geir's place, and using his computer with braille keyboard. He's an amazing guy - what he doesn't see in the physical, he gets compensated in the spiritual. He is very sensitive to God's Spirit and speaks with great clarity, wisdom and discernment. Today he remarked: "Evangelism without discipleship is like making children without taking the responsibility to raise them." That's why many churches look more like day-care centres then families I guess.
We talked about a lot of things today: church and leadership issues, 'covering' versus healthy accountability, how to deal with criticism and opposition, planning and implementing vision, how to connect with God's work in nations without pushing an agenda, the relationship between new moves of God and established ministries, and spreading a Kingdom virus.
It was also good to meet up with John Beynon, a prayer mobiliser from the UK whom God used to form and strengthen national prayer partnerships in Iceland, France and Norway. And I connected with Jörgen Aass and Arne Borgerson who (among others) lead the prayer movement in Norway. They are preparing for Norge 2004, a 40 day prayer and fasting period before Easter. God is bringing the prayer movement up to speed and into maturity, while at the same time unity is under severe pressure. No surprise - the same is happening back home. One of the first things I have to do when I set foot on Dutch soil tomorrow is problem-solving, communication-clearing and relationship-building. It's so wonderful to be a connector...
Question and thought:
Q: What is prophetic dance?
T: How about discipling towards a point of evangelism? Isn't this what Jesus did?
Posted by: scott | January 18, 2004 at 14:37