Hamilton County Christians...

Hey check it out... our GEO-strategy continues to move forward. We're now linked among Hamilton County Christians .com -- connecting the Bible-believing churches & neighborhoods throughout the county. And they're connected metro-wide with IndyChristian.com (where you can get the area's daily news for Christians)... and statewide with TransformIndiana.com... and nationally with CityReaching.com.

If you think you'd like to do more to share the love of Christ in YOUR neighborhood, visit Nhood.org -- with best-in-class neighborhood ideas & resources. And then let us know -- we'd like to help you in your neighborhood efforts of faith.

Indy Heights... Blogging Together

We're now contemplating how the local church blogs together... which begs the question: What is a local church, anyway? Is it a network of Bible-believing Christians, neighborhood by neighborhood... including the existing local (Bible-believing) churches?

And how should it function together? Blog together at least? How might that look in a networked community?

Here's one model... a real, live, blogging church... IndyChurch.org.

About ModelChurch.com

"What Would a Model Church Look Like, Anyway?"

Hi. Hey before we get into why this .com site exists, first come with me for a moment to the wiki-encyclopedia page developing this topic... ModelChurch.org.



Now maybe you'll better understand ModelChurch.com -- where we're using the internet to playfully sketch out a model of what should someday be built in reality. So we're going to tinker a bit with a fictitious church... "Indy Heights Community Church"... in a fictitious neighborhood community. And our fictitious 'pastor' is the warm, personable character we'll just call 'Pastor Paul'.

We welcome your comments or email.

Or if you'd like to get involved and help flesh-out a core-set of principles from scripture, about the nature & purpose of the Church... consider applying to join the ModelChurch eGroup.

Welcome...

Hi. I'm 'Pastor Paul'. Welcome to the neighborhood church here in 'Indy Heights'. We're here to share life together in the community... for many years to come... and hopefully, eternally.

We not only want to ask W.W.J.D., but importantly (try to) live it out... i.e., Do W.J.W.D.

The Bible is God Almighty's Word to us... our guide, and He rolled it up for us pretty succinctly when He walked the earth...

• Go.
• Make disciples.
• Baptize them.*
• Teach them to obey everything I've shared with you.
• Love me with all your everything.
• Love your neighbors as yourself.
• Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly.
• Keep in mind I'm with you all the way.
• Other duties as assigned. LOL.
• Remember: I'll be back.

* Connect them to the family of professing believers.

The CHURCH is not a building -- it's a collection of people. A team. By the same token, the Church should not be represented only by a single web-site.... but rather, by a whole TAPESTRY of Christ-followers in a local area. A citywide team. Enjoying life together and getting the job done... in our neighborhoods... on our watch.

So here we're starting a sample free & easy site for connecting & conversing among Christ-followers involved in the local church... and throughout the nearby neighborhoods.

'Being the Neighborhood's Church'

and
'Training Neighborhood Leaders.'

... connecting virtually in the city-reaching movement... get our elders & deacons some practice and familiarity with it all -- and hopefully actually writing here from time to time in practical ways. And then someday soon perhaps, we'll submit this blog's RSS feed to IndyChurches.com -- the area's aggregated site for Bible-believing churches.

Blogging is as easy as email -- you log in, write something, and hit the Submit button.

For more info on blogging, see Neil Cox (IndyChristian)... or come visit/train with him... any Saturday morning. More info at UBbloggin.com.