Vol I, No.4 T-NetWorker

T-NET International • Discipling Disciplemakers • March 2003

What's Wrong With
Our Picture of the Church?

Bill Hull describes how his own “dark night of the soul” forever changed his view of the church.

All I Ever Really Needed to Know About Church I Learned in Prison Canadian Director of T-Net John Hiddema on how the Churches resemble Prisons

AfterWords - Did Jesus Really have the Modern Church in mind when he gave us the Great Commission? What If We’ve Got It All Wrong?
– David Goodman

The Breaking of Bill Hull Disciple Making Pastor

Bill Hull T-NET Founder and Author

"As I stood before the people that morning, I was prepared to pour out my soul, even my desperation. I was nearing the end of a three-year reshaping of my person and I had morphed in such a way that I could never go back to the way it used to be. Bill Hull, the Disciple Making Pastor, had been broken and now God was starting to put me back together again."

For three years people were steadily leaving our church. I wouldn’t support or agree with much of what they said or did, but God used them as a gift to me. It was the most painful experience of my pastoral life and so many times I wanted to run away . . .

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All I Ever Really Needed to Know About Church

I Learned in Prison

John Hiddema National Director, T-Net Canada

"Okay, maybe the title is a bit overstated, but not by as much as you might think . . ."

". . . Interestingly, an 85% recidivism rate was the reality this prison was challenged with. In other words, only 15% of our clients (formerly known as inmates) rejected our offer of continued hospitality and managed not to return. How embarrassing! If we were in the people-changing business, it didn’t seem to be working all that well . . ."

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AfterWords - David Goodman

What If We Got It All Wrong?

T-NetWorker Staff
David Goodman, Editor
Caroline Smith, Asst. Editor

"What if what God wanted of us was not to see how many Christians we could gather under one roof, but how many small high commitment gatherings we could link together in a network of believers?

Humor me a moment . . .

If you are like me, every time you read what the scriptures have to say about church you are applying it to what you already know a church is to be. But what if you had no idea what a church was? What if you had never even seen one . . . and all you had was . . . a Bible. Would you come up with anything like what we have now?

We don’t hesitate to assume there was a great deal wrong with indulgences or congregations standing through a long sermon in one of the great cathedrals in Medieval times . . .

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