Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:26:02 -0600WeeblyMon, 15 Nov 2010 00:48:21 GMThttp://www.christianbody.net/the-ecclesia-experiment/the-outlineThe Outline

1. Taking A Hard And Honest Look---a look at where you've been, the people, family, leaders, churches, movements, etc. that have affected  your real fellowship with God and His people?
2. Do You Really Want To Be Healed?  Your answer to this  question (which Jesus also asked) will set the backdrop for your entire journey.  If you don't understand that  you are damaged, then you probably will receive little benefit from going down this path .  Can you embrace your pain and own your hurts and issues?
3. Forgiveness---the Mount Everest of spiritual healing and restoration.
4. Defining The True Church (ekklesia.)  Church as a family, not a religious order.  A safe environment for growth, trust and true relationship.
5. The Issue of Control/Witchcraft---includes spiritual abuse, areas where you have been controlled and manipulated by others and how it has affected you and others. 
6. Does God Really Love Me?
7. The Perversion of Works Based Religion.  Clarification of the Law and grace.  Is religion a shame management system.
8. Steps To Freedom In Christ.  An interview to help show where you're really at.
9. The Exchanged Life Experience.  A journey through the revelation of HIS life being exchanged for yours at the cross.  How God sees all that.
10. Spiritual Gifts And Callings.  There's been a lot of confusion and division in this area.  It's time to get through our fears and frustrations and see them for what they really are---gifts from God. 
11. Who You Are In Christ---and (more importantly) who HE is in you.
12. A Look At Godly Leadership.  It encourages spiritual freedom, not bondage and despair.

]]>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:45:59 GMThttp://www.christianbody.net/the-ecclesia-experiment/the-premiseThe Premise

1. We are a community of people who recognize that we each have problems and issues, but that we can move beyone them into healing and functional Christianity.
2. We aren't here to FIX one another, nor are we able to do so. 
3. What is spoken in these meetings stays here.  We are learning to trust and be trusted.
4. We recognize that ACTING RIGHT is not enough---we must be TRANSFORMED in order to be free.
5. We are tired of the hypocrisy of religion and shame based programs and long for a family that loves us where we are, not where we might someday be.
6. We are willing to give up unrealistic expections of ourselves and others and allow God to show us who and what we are.
7. Denial is not faith---pretending that everything is ok when it is not is DENIAL.  Owning the reality is a step toward wholeness. 
8. As we become honest with God, ourselves and others, acknowledging our issues, weaknesses, and fears and bringing them into the light, we find that the accuser of the brethren no longer can use those issues to humiliate and defeat us.
9. Our purpose is not only to look honestly at the problems, but to become the solution as we are healed, delivered and assembled by the Holy Spirit into the functional Body of Christ.
10. Even though we meet together, we understand that our purpose is not JUST to have meetings, but to learn to come together in Spirit and in Truth as a family of believers.

]]>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:32:11 GMThttp://www.christianbody.net/the-ecclesia-experiment/first-postThe Ecclesia Experiment is based on the question, "Can the people of God move past a form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof, and into a living, breathing relationship with God and His people?"  There are many distractions, problems, and issues in the BOC which have made His church dysfunctional and irrevelant in modern society.  Seems many of them have been ignored or spiritualized, but little has been done to identify, address, or solve these ongoing obstructions to the releasing of God's people into the fullness which is clearly desired by the Lord.  Ignoring the problems is NOT faith --- it is denial, and it MUST be addressed.]]>