The Organic Church
How the Organic Church People See Themselves I ’ll admit it; I don’t keep up with all the latest fads. When the organic church came up in a conversation with my pastor the other day, I was pretty clueless and then showed my ignorance by opening my mouth. So, I went looking to see what I could find out about this thing called, the organic church . The first thing I came to realize was that the words in the name have little meaning unless you understand how the people using it are defining the terms. As a friend pointed out, to be organic, something has to contain carbon compounds. That’s probably not what is intended by the use of the term. Neither can we use the etymology of the word church . The word originates from a word used to refer to a place of worship. (In other words, a “church” is the building, not the people.) In looking for a definition I found the statement, “an Organic Church is born out of spiritual life, not constructed by human institutions and held together by religi...