PERUBAHAN PARADIGMA GEREJA

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Setelah merenungkan dengan teliti, saya percaya inilah jenis pelayanan masa depan gereja yang sesuai dengan Alkitab ajarkan.

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• From meeting centered to life centered. 
• From upward growth to outward growth. 
• From super organization to simple organism (the opposite of hierarchy / reverse pyramid. Pyramid is anarchy). 
• From bringing people to church to bringing church to people. 
• From social respectability to salt and light (they turned the world upside down). 
• From tenth to total in New Testament giving. 
• From titles to function. 
• From Independence to interdependence (from wallwide church to the citywide church ... organizational unity to spiritual unity). 
• From presbytery without the people to presbytery with the people (Acts 15:22). 
• From building centered leaders to people centered leaders. 
• From performance by professionals to "everyone of you"(1 Chor 14:26). 
• From pastor only to fivefold ministries (all the gifts God gave). 
• From church houses to house churches. 
• From self to God. 
• From inreach to outreach. 
• From events to relationship. 
• From ministers to equippers. 
• From consumers to contributors. 
• From a church mentality to a kingdom mentality. 
• From living in the past to enganging with the present. 
• From market-driven to mission-oriented. 
• From bureaucratic hierarchies to apostolic networks. 
• From schooling professionals to mentoring leaders. 
• From following celebrities to encountering saints. 
• From dead orthodoxy to living faith. 
• From attracting a crowd to seeking the lost. 
• From belonging to believing. 
• From generic congregations to incarnational communities. 
• From christianity to Christ (not a philosophy, a movement, or a religion, but JESUS). 
• From special priesthood to priesthood of all believers (called to sacrifice and intercede). 
• From worshipping our worship to worshipping Jesus (worship is more than singing song). 
• From symbolism to substance in the Lord is supper (take it often). 
• From denomination to spirit-led networks (association of home churches). 
• From program based church to home based church (liturgical, evangelical, informal). 
• From the seminary system to the apprentice system. 
• From selective submission to spiritual recognition (submit to God-ordained authority). 
• From paper membership to Body membership (we are members of one another). 
• From the wheel to the vine (releasing teams to plant simple churches in homes). 
• From organizational unity to spiritual unity (there is only one step to unity). 
• From "us and them" to "us" (refuse to allow a divisive spirit to enter your fellowship). 
• From planned church only to spontaneous church also (recognize ecclesia).