And the Greetings and welcome back to episode number four in the series what is church this is episode number four and we are working our way through

eight different values that I've written for a recent church that I've been involved with helping plant a for lack of better terms a house church like church and I hesitate saying house church I think I've talked about this before I don't want to sometimes house churches can

Get off the rails a little bit or they can be

Hyper critical of the so-called institutional church or they can become very anti-building

and that's not what we want to do at all. We want to come alongside and join arms with what

God is doing in this wonderful city of Boise with the other churches

and ministries in the valley.

This is not a reactionary church plant.

It is another way of doing church. That is, it is another way of doing church that is it is quite different and that's what we're talking

about in this series we're talking about things that are some values that are driving

this church and many of these values may end up producing a different kind of church.

So last week we talked about reproducing versus church growth, reproducing versus church growth.

Reproducing versus church growth,

and we also talked about our, another value

that we want to be relationally driven,

relationally driven.

Those two go hand in hand,

that's why I talked about them together.

We want to reproduce small gatherings so that the primary rhythm of church of gathering is small and

intimate and relationally driven. We will also have large gatherings as we or

if we end up becoming too big for our one setting we will not just buy a building or you know become a big church

with a big service and start hiring tons of people rather than that we will

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