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Christ-Centered Communities

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Present Day C1 to C6 Spectrum of Churches  C- 1 Western traditional model. Service conducted in foreign language. Leader outsider. Exclusive as it requires “specials” - special building, special music, special pulpit and a special collection box. Obeys denominational rules rather than obeying the commands of Jesus. No vision and strategy for the lost. Lacks reproductive DNA. Non-reproducible and fruitless. Acts 21:19-26, John 15:5 C- 2 Worship in the local language. Equally clueless as C1. Busy in church program and church politics. Knowledge based leader - trained as aquarium keeper rather than skills based “fisher of men”. Considers only himself “ordained” for ministry while others as “laymen”, thus denying that the blood of the Lamb divinely ordains “all believers” to be prophets, priests and kings to the nations. No burden for seeking and saving the lost, hence barren. Exodus 19:5,6; Math. 4:19; Luke 19:10; John 15:16; 1Peter 2:9; Revelation 1:5,6; 5:9,10 C- 3