A Good Tip
I write from the middle of a great conference, on “Home Groups Reaching People for Christ”, at Xenos Christian Fellowship in Columbus, Ohio. If you’ve never checked out their website, you really should. This church does a lot of things differently—maybe not all the way I would do it, but I have to say, these folks have got it together when it comes to doing life in Christ…together! And they are more serious about producing reproducing workers for Jesus Christ than any church I’ve ever heard of…period. I’m composing this sitting in their “Study Center”, which is a tastefully-decorated library with thousands of Christian books, available for folks to come and read and study in. I’m blown away…and I’d really, really recommend you check out some of the resources on their website.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
6 Responses to “A Good Tip”
All I ever hear is good things about Xenos. I’ve got to get my tail down to Columbus and experience it myself!
Bob Robinson ~ Jun 9, 2005 at 9:29 pm
I’m glad you got to attend the conference, Byron. One year I’m going to make it. I’ve known about Xenos for a few years and I so appreciate their biblical emphasis on corporate Christian life. Two days ago I recommended their book on marriage and today I threw in my cheer with yours for how they do ministry.
Keith Plummer ~ Jun 10, 2005 at 8:21 am
Xenos has seriously changed my life, and I think it is fair to say that all my years of ministry have been flavored by life together Xenos style. It is a something that is caught AND taught there.
J. Hawthorne ~ Jun 10, 2005 at 2:22 pm
I attended Xenos Christian Fellowship for 3 years while in graduate school before I moved out of state. I had the good fortune to be discipled by several great Christian men who helped bring my focus back where it belonged on Christ and on living life together with other believers in common purpose. I really believe that the Xenos model — commitment to truth, to community, and to mission — is not only a biblical one, but also one that is highly effective in reaching the unchurched or, in my case, those Christians who had been disaffected by church. I will forever be grateful to those brothers who spoke truth in my life through Xenos.
Matt Davis ~ Sep 17, 2005 at 10:47 pm