Well said Stefos, I thought you were going to be out in left field when I read the title but your reasoning makes perfect sense. Things are great when we follow His plan laid out in scripture.
I live in California, Have you tried Grace Community Church - it could be a bit of a drive but on Sunday Mornings it should take less than 40 minutes, and you can't beat John MacAurthur's teaching!
What a wild quote! I have looked all over (thanks to google) and can't seem to find anything like this that takes both the literal and the metaphor side 100% of the time. So basically they are saying that everything in the bible has two meanings? 1 literal meaning, and 1 metaphorical? That...
I like the book as well, I feel he does a good job with the text, except he tends to to exclude lots of other good scripture and has a bit too much psychology for my liking. Scripture is sufficient.
Before you go too far please listen to some of what K.P. Yohanan has to say about it. He was a mobile evangalist for 2+ years and realized how futile it was because the people had no church body to plug into. Envangelism must be done side by side with the church and if no church is in place...
I LOVE that idea, however I think I would be more intentional about it. Create a place for people to submit names of former attenders and then have the people in the church sign up for 3-4 each, and make sure that each person on the list gets at least 3-4 HAND WRITTEN letters. The postcards...
There is a great resource out there for churches called echo prayer, Ben the guy that made the app might be the perfect person to talk to!!
The URL of his prayer app is new.echoprayer.com