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It has been a while since I posted #3… but here it is… This is the fourth resource I’ll share with you out of the four I mention in the original post HERE.
Resource #1 is HERE.
Resource #2 is HERE.
Resource #3 is HERE.

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HOUSES THAT CHANGE THE WORLD - Wolfgang Simson
I can’t say enough about this book. I also can’t thank the people at DAWN Ministries enough for making this available in PDF format. The downloadable version is a draft and there are some edits, but this way you can get the idea and not spend the money for the book. Its effect on me is a bit different than the first three resources. The first 3 help me most because they help me with what I see now. For example, I can use the Church Planting Phases to help identify where we are… and what we might work on tomorrow. Houses that Change the World does this to a degree… but is far more visionary. This book is a passionate appeal to the restoration of New Testament Christianity. Simson is able to talk about new movements of God without criticizing the past. He is always looking forward with anticipation of what God will do. The introduction to this book changed my life. I mean it. Here it is…

Being brought up in ”Christian” Germany with churches everywhere, I have always felt that there must be something exciting about the Church which Jesus started and about which I read in the New Testament - but somehow I have yet to discover what it is. I dreamed - together with many friends and colleagues, of a church, that is as simple as One-Two-Three, yet is dynamic; an explosive thing, able to turn the world and a neighborhood upside down. The church as a supernatural invention; endowed with God’s gift of immortality; the way to disciple each other, and to transfer the life of Jesus to each other. An experience of grace and grapes, love and laughter, joy and jellybeans, forgiveness and fun, power and - yes, why not, paper. A church, which does not need much finances, rhetoric, control and manipulation, which can do without powerful and charismatic heroes, which is non-religious at heart, which can thrill people to the core, make them lose their head for joy, and simply teach us The Way to live. The church which not only has a message, but is the message; which spreads like an unstoppable virus, infects whatever it touches, and ultimately covers the Earth with the glory and knowledge of God. It’s power stems from it’s inventor, who has equipped it with the most genius spiritual genetic code - a sort of heavenly DNA, which allows it to transfer and reproduce Kingdom values from Heaven to Earth, and transform not only water into wine, but atheists into fascinated apostles, policewomen into prophetesses, terrorists into teachers, plumbers into pastors, and dignified village elders into beaming evangelists in the process. It is like a spiritual family - organic, not organized, relational, not formal; it has a persecution-proof structure, matures under tears, multiplies under pressure, grows under the carpet, flourishes in the desert, sees in the dark, and thrives on chaos. A church that can multiply like two fish and five breads in the Hands of Jesus, where the fathers turn their hearts to the sons and the sons their hearts to the fathers, where it’s people are it’s resources, and which has only one name to brag about, the Lamb of God.

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