Tag Archives: Micro

Pastoral Calling

Pastor Steve Durkac Posted on by avatar

I am an advocate of doing church simply and a believer in the God ordained pastoral calling. However, I realize that there are voices in organic, simple, house church movements who reject the roles or at least the position of a “pastor” as belonging to institutional church. (I spoke to my concern of pastoral clergy criticism in my blog post “Critics of Doing Church.”) Here, I simply want to layout some biblical considerations when it comes to decisions regarding the implementation or … Continue reading →

Critics of Church Styles

Pastor Steve Durkac Posted on by avatar

Several years ago I left traditional institutional denominational church pastoral ministry and received a lot of criticism from my colleagues on planting a house/organic church fellowship. Criticism from my fellow traditional ministers didn’t surprise me as much as the criticism I received from other organic church advocates, including random unexpected emails and even letters chastising me and trying to correct me, for not doing church according their understanding of how house/organic church should be done. It still humors me to … Continue reading →