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Dinner Church: A Simple Church Gathering Used By Jesus, Paul, Tertullian and Today Verlon Fosner | 5 Jul 2023 As 21st Century Christian leaders, it’s hard to recognize our assumptions about the way church is done. We take our exclusive religious spaces, teaching-centric gatherings, congregational liturgies, and musical worship...
Pentecostalism & Fresh Expressions: From Street to Sanctuary and Back Again Verlon Fosner | 28 Jun 2023 This is a confusing time to be a church leader. We are watching the version of church that was invented by the reformers, centered around large gatherings, preaching and programming,...
The Unexpected Reason Dinner Churches are Popping Up Everywhere Verlon Fosner | 7 Jun 2023 For the first three hundred years of Christianity the Church functioned primarily around dinner tables. In the book of Acts, the church was found breaking bread from house to house....
Dinner Church: Something Opportunistic is Happening Verlon Fosner | 27 Aug 2021 The Dinner Church movement is not happening in a cultural vacuum; there is a reason why it is rebirthing now. We would do well to place these New Passovers that...
Dinner Church: Something Unearthly is Happening Verlon Fosner | 25 Aug 2021 We are accustomed to the way things work in the local church. We have our regular rhythms of holidays, kick-offs, events and programs. We are quite comfortable with the way...
Dinner Church: Something Historical is Happening Verlon Fosner | 23 Aug 2021 The dinner church is not an innovation; it is a recovery project. For the first three-hundred years of Christianity the Jesus Table was the most used sociological form of Christian...
How To Tell Stories About Jesus That Unchurched People Will Love Verlon Fosner | 8 Jul 2021 Because Dinner Churches and other Fresh Expressions gather people with little or no experience with church or Scripture, we often serve folks who find the Bible opaque. So, we began looking...
Take the Next Step in Learning Dinner Church Leadership! Verlon Fosner | 26 Aug 2020 The Dinner Church movement is growing across the West. With traditional approaches becoming less and less effective in reaching secular populations, leaders are now reaching out for different sociologies of...
We Need Dinner Churches Now More Than Ever Verlon Fosner | 13 Jul 2020 Introductory training for your Dinner Church is available at the Dinner Church Track of the Resilient Church Academy. Accredited Seminary-Level Training in Dinner Church Strategy and Theology available this Fall....
“We’re Not Alone After All”: How the FX National Gathering Could Make a Difference for You! Verlon Fosner | 9 Sep 2019 We had found our people. The tears rolled as my wife and I walked away from the final session and said to each other, “we are not alone after all!"
One Simple Reason Dinner Church is Trending Verlon Fosner | 12 Aug 2019 For the first three hundred years of Christianity the church functioned primarily around dinner tables. In the book of Acts, the church was found breaking bread from house to house....
Discover a Historic, Thriving Way to Do Church—While You Eat Verlon Fosner | 5 Aug 2019 Jesus himself used the dinner table and dinnertime throughout his ministry.

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