Timothy Johns

Micro Church Families on Mission Timothy Johns

We need a big surge of love! The world is in serious trouble. Mass violence, the dissolution of the family, crime, poverty, and moral decay are rooted in the breakdown of love relationships with God, family and others. Honest leaders have become painfully aware that institutional church programs are falling short in solving these problems. Therefore, this training manual proposes the biblical strategies which will actually affect change in people and culture. It is all about igniting much more love! The church is to be the primary catalyst for bringing the kingdom of God on earth. This is a field manual to help us advance Christ's kingdom. God is a Father, Son and Spirit - a Family of Three, yet One. Therefore, He will only build His kingdom in congruence to His own nature, which is the Trinitarian pattern of family. This training manual is all about how to make vibrant disciples of Christ, sons and daughters, in the context of small spiritual families on mission. It is about producing eternal fruit by creating a disciple-making culture resulting in generational transfer. Church leaders are desperately searching for ways, to stop the mass exodus of believers from leaving "organized religion." This decline in church participation is a result of a lack of relational love and intimacy. Micro-Church families are the most effective way to help people connect meaningfully with God and with one another. Caring leaders are looking for biblical solutions to real problems. How do we inspire loving community among our members? How can we be more effective at healing the sick and the broken-hearted? how do we train and mobilize our churches to reach the lost with the gospel? How can we infiltrate and incarnate God's love in all spheres of society - the "seven mountains" of influence? Fortunately, the Bible tells us the answers. Jesus modeled the way. Just like the early church, who met house to house, we can form dynamic small spiritual families that make disciples, provide inner healing and reach out to neighbors.