Slowly but surely, God is shifting the paradigm of church and leadership.

It is becoming genuinely organic, simple and participatory, with healthy fellowships beginning to emerge.

All I can say is forget the buzz words and existential agendas of past advocates like Viola and Dale – along with their fellow “itinerant” buddies like Zens, Rodriguez, Giles and Rohde.

They tried to peddle their own cookie-cutter, trans-Biblical perceptions of Christ and the Church on God’s people …

Through books and blogs that they never sustainably made work in their own lives, home towns or anywhere else.

As a result, they have left behind a legacy of ruined lives and failed churches.

Instead, build on the sure foundation already apostolically laid through Scripture as God’s authoritative written Word, in the unique context of diverse communities …

Where He still sends us today to make disciples and redeem nations.

That, my friends, is real “organic” church and leadership.