Small Church

Wes Widner on February 28th, 2011

Our family doesn’t always visit a brick and mortar church, but when we do, my wife and I have a system to handle the parking conundrum. You see, we typically go to one of the many megachurches in the area and parking is predictably a nightmare. So what we generally do is ride around the [...]

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Wes Widner on December 12th, 2010

A friend on Facebook pointed me to this lecture by Rodney Stark, author of the excellent book Victory of Reason. This lecture is titled “Religious Competition” Audio here I think most of what Stark says is spot-on. I disagree with him, of course, when He dogs the protestant movement and gives an unexcused free pass [...]

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Wes Widner on November 28th, 2010

When You Come Together from simplechurch.com on Vimeo.

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Wes Widner on November 28th, 2010

Tidal Wave from simplechurch.com on Vimeo.

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Wes Widner on November 27th, 2010

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Wes Widner on July 23rd, 2010

What do we believe? How do we operate? What sort of structure do we abide by? There are some of the questions I had after deciding that the way I had always “Done church” just wasn’t cutting it. But what was a viable Biblical alternative? Over the past couple of years, I’ve compiled a few [...]

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Wes Widner on September 26th, 2009

A friend of mine recently asked, “What is simple church and how is it different than what we normally call ‘church’?” Simple church is a pretty broad term and is rather hard to nail down. I think the best place to begin is to say that the aim (at least in the one I am [...]

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