To introduce ourselves...My name is Michelle Roberts and my husband's name is Brian. We currently live in Owatonna, MN, but both grew up in Wisconsin. We have two kids, Cameron and Chiara. Brian works for Target and I am a SAHM and also a demonstrator for Uppercase Living. Until we quit church, Brian was a full-time pastor as well as working in retail--fun during the holidays? Not so much.
About a year and a half ago, we started feeling really burned out, tired of spinning our wheels. So we started praying about what we could do to really make an impact on this world for Jesus Christ. We felt like everything we were doing while we "did church" wasn't getting us any closer to "being the church". We decided to really dig in to scripture and see what the disciples did to get closer to Jesus, and what we found was very simple and clear...
Stop Serving...Start Knowing
So here we are. We decided to see what happens when you get rid of everything except Jesus. No programs for evangelism--we do that everyday. No sermons--we know God will always teach what he wants us to learn but no one writes down 3 points and a poem and gives an oration. No children's church--our kids meet with us, see us worshipping and want to do it too. No form, no function. Sound like chaos? Perhaps it is, organized chaos anyway. We meet in homes, but we aren't a "church that meets in homes". We have several leaders, but no one is in charge.
What's the bottom line? I don't know. For now, we are an every member functioning group of believers that meets together to fellowship, pray, praise God, sing, and find ways to show other people the love of Jesus. We are all servant leaders of each other, we hold each other accountable to prayer and bible study, we expect that anyone who meets with us will utilize their spiritual gifts each time we meet no matter what.
So that's it from me today. I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but we plan to use it as a chronicle of our journey. We are pretty excited to see what God does. MR
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