Wikipedia defines The Simple Church movement as an Evangelical Christian movement that seeks to redefine the nature and practice of church.
One Criticism of the organic church is that it is too unstructured and without order. It is too spontaneous. Others like the fact that it is not bound to an order of service, structure or time constraints.
But what about the plan? Is it ok to be “organic” and goal oriented at the same time? Is the Holy Spirit strategic? It seems to me as though the entire Bible is one long strategic plan played out in space and time using individuals and people groups to flesh out Kingdom work. Most of these people probably had no idea about the importance their role in history. Maybe we don’t either.
Last week I had a six house brainstorming session with the Holy Spirit. It consisted of prayer, bible reading, a large white board and several colored dry-erase markers. What I ended up with was several parts of a plan that God has already birthed. It will continue to evolve as time goes on.
Training 100 leaders and starting 100 churches will take careful planning. At the same time it will be organic. If we don’t listen well and respond accordingly, the “plan” will be a disaster.
The goal is to have a good strategy and execute the plan well while holding it loosely and allowing it to become organic in nature. “Or-tee-gic” if you will. Did I just invent a new word?
