What is a Micro Church



I learned today there are many "micro churches", home churches that pop up when a group of people is fed up with the church they are going to they start meeting by themselves. Apparently the groups, at least to some extent, find each other online and hold conferences.

According to the link these groups avoid much talking about theology. They realize everyone has their own deal and going very deep into "what the Bible means" will exclude those who know even better "what the Bible means" so it's go lite on that topic. 

Predictably, the comments that followed the link wrote of the "ignorance" of lay people and the need for knowledgeable denominational officials to decide "what the Bible means" and give proper instruction to those of lesser knowledge. On the few occasions when I've gotten into the back pages of denominations or watched videos debating what is going on inside there are the inevitable conflicts about theology. Leave those disagreements aside and, it seems to me, people in churches would get along better with each other. 

In Europe's democracies there are new parties forming and dividing and realigning with each other constantly. We do the same in this country but it is within religion instead of political parties. Perhaps Christianity, in general, will be more popular if there is broad agreement there is something in religion but no one knows for certain what it is. That is, the fluid faith with people constantly changing their minds and forming or reforming groups. 

A few decades ago, there were only a few Protestant denominations. Now there are many. With the Micro Church thing the number of groups is expanding faster that the number of channels on your phone or TV. If there is a future for Christianity, it's probably something like that. 

 

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