People have been trying to define "the church" forever. What is it, what should it do or be, what's right or wrong, allowed or not? There are big churches and little ones, multi-site, cell-based, home church, internet church; church, church, church, church. So what about a "one-year church"?
Once a week I meet with a friend and basically we just dream together (for about 19 years now). It's mostly about church stuff. We say we are "coaching" one another, and maybe we are, but mostly it's a safe place for us to put anything and everything out on the table and see what we can come up with. Usually it's not much.
This past week he asked me to help him think through his latest idea: One-Year Church. What if you had, say, twenty people agree to start a church that would exist for only one year? They would likely be house churches. The simpler the better. The emphasis would solely be on bible and theology. If you wanted to have singing, music, prayer or anything or nothing else, that would be up to you. All you need to do is find some people to meet for one year (once a week, I suppose), and discover Scripture and some basic theology together. After that... well, who knows. You might decide to keep meeting together; you might just stop; maybe each person go somewhere else... it wouldn't really matter. Hopefully you would have at least developed about twenty leaders along the way.
We discussed some different things like the Alpha material, the Bible Project, and things. Apparently someone else had a similar idea only it was for three months! We thought about that too.
Anyway, it's all still laying on the table, but I wanted to make note of it. I think it's an interesting concept. So I'm doing a little dreaming...
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