My placement in Maastricht is really good. The team is really good. They are friendly people and they work in the District Wittevrouwenveld. They all live in this district. They have the vision of simple church. Everything should be simple and they are planting house churches, by going to the people and leaving them in their natural social networks. Usually when people go to church we expect them that they come to us, an inward movement. We expect that they make new friends in church and we take them out of the networks. In the vission of the team. The church goes to the people. They will meet in the house of the people and their old friends are welcome. The plan is that the gospel will spread through all those networks without that the people have to come to church - The church comes to them. So not on inward movement but an outward movement. Church visits the people at their homes.
So not the people go to the church but the church goes to the people.
source: http://iamtrainingformission.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/church-goes-to-the-people/
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