Comments on: To the Dones and the Almost Dones, I hear you https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: chris https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-71212 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:39:33 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-71212 What’s interesting to me is how many people are going exactly the opposite way of all the commenters on this post. Many young people are returning to the really REALLY established churches and finding peace there. There is such an Exodus of people leaving protestant churches and returning to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communions. In these groups, they all but lose themselves in the institution!

]]> By: Michael Frost https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-10882 Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:11:53 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-10882 In reply to Ronald Lacy.

I fixed it for ya.

]]> By: Ronald Lacy https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-10870 Sat, 03 Aug 2019 21:47:18 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-10870 In reply to Ronald Lacy.

SORRY it got duplicated. I copied and pasted into MS Word to check spelling, and accidently pasted it in here as well!

]]> By: Ronald Lacy https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-10869 Sat, 03 Aug 2019 21:43:52 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-10869 Cameron Larson, I agree with you. Some of the comments here are saying good things about relating to people within the Church, we are all broken in some way. However, the issue is what we call CHURCH, and it’s structure being led mostly by ONE MAN, who does become the ‘head’, taking Jesus’ place!!

THAT is a type of anti-christ. Antichrist has two sides to it: one is resisting and fighting against Christ and the other is taking “His place”, and that is what pastors are doing in the Institutional Church!

In the Book of Acts the WHOLE Church came together and made decisions, not one man.

Acts 15:22, “Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the WHOLE church…”
James was not the pastor there but ONE of the Elders, and after hours of discussion and everyone coming to an agreement James simply summarized what they had all already agreed upon.

They had no pastors in the Early Church because that word and office had not been invented yet. It only came to pass after the second and third centuries, but they were following “Diotrephes” lead “Cameron Larson, I agree with you. Some of the comments here are saying good things about relating to people within the Church, we are all broken in some way. However, the issue is what we call CHURCH, and it’s structure being led mostly by ONE MAN, who does become the ‘head’, taking Jesus’ place!!

]]> By: cameron larson https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-10589 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:26:51 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-10589 For me, it is about Jesus being The HEAD. Scripture states there will be a great apostasy before Jesus comes back. I see that everywhere, compromise and deviation from what the Apostles taught as to how to follow Christ. I felt emasculated as a man having to sit and listen to someone who went to a seminary and has a platform that must not be interrupted every Sunday, he becomes the head not Jesus. The body of Christ was not meant to function sitting in rows listening to this one man. The structure has been off for almost 2000 years and if you want to follow God’s spirit you have to get out.

]]> By: David Edgren https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-9837 Fri, 03 May 2019 07:59:35 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-9837 I see a correlation between poor discipleship models in the local church and male disenchantment with Christianity. Following Jesus is supposed to be about following someone somewhere to do something.

]]> By: Julian Holdsworth https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-9155 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:34:12 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-9155 For those interested in spirituality beyond the walls of the church, I am really interested in your thoughts. I am operating out of Melbourne. I have begun a podcast at dchurched.com – also linked to a facebook group. Happy to hear your comments and learn about your journey. jools@dchurched.com

]]> By: Penny https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-9109 Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:46:44 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-9109 In reply to Michael.

Me too! Thank you for this post! I too believe God is beginning something new! It begins with me joining the movement and beibgbthe church. Appreciate your writings so very much.

]]> By: Al Owski https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-8969 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:08:15 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-8969 In reply to Steve G..

Hi Steve. I’m not sure I can answer your first question because one’s feeling about a relationship is subjective. I will say my view of God’s presence in the world has become much more incarnational. Increasingly, I see my fellow human beings as being created in God’s image, so my relationship with God and/or Jesus is a function of seeing His image in others. When I connect with others, I feel closer to God. I still pray. I definitely feel connected with God’s mission in the world, more than ever. That looks like involvement in non-profits that minister to people (inspired by Isaiah 1:17, Matthew 25) directly and personally. That also means becoming politically active, because that is the only way to change policies that affect people. The Bible plays a foundational role in my life, but not because I necessarily read it every day (I don’t). I discovered that over the years I have internalized it. My exegesis has changed so that I have focused more on the Gospels, the Beatitudes, and what Jesus expects of me as I follow him.

]]> By: Steve G. https://mikefrost.net/to-the-dones-and-the-almost-dones-i-hear-you/#comment-8967 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:00:48 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28433#comment-8967 In reply to Al Owski.

Hey Al, I am interested in what the last seven years have been like between you and Jesus, you and God. What has changed there? Do you feel closer to God?Do you feel more connected with His mission in the world? What does that look like? And, if I can ask one more question, what role does the Bible play in your life today?

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