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Paul Vieira reads a selection from his book Jesus Has Left The Building.
This is the first of the seven characteristics we examine in the church that Jesus started. Amphibians are creatures that thrive only when they can move back and forth between land and water. Using this metaphor, I explain that followers of Jesus too are amphibious. We must live in two worlds: in community with other believers and out in the world with unbelievers. Our health and survival as the church depends on this balance.
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Paul Vieira reads a selection from his book Jesus Has Left The Building.
This chapter seeks to introduce a vision of “church”, by going back to the root. What was Jesus’ church like? Church as we know it doesn’t go back far enough. I’m not interested in “improvements” that Constantine brought to the church. I want to go back past the early church fathers, or even the epistles of Paul. I want to start with Jesus, and take it from there. I suspect that the future church will look more like the ancient church. We must go back to go forward.
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Paul Vieira reads a selection from his book Jesus Has Left The Building.
The story of how my whole family encountered God before ever stepping through the doorway of a church.
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