In the coming months, members from each congregation will join one of three 'link' teams. These teams which will focus on faith, community or service will decide what projects the alliance will undertake. See Conforming the Church to the New Millennium Touch. This is not a church, its founders say, even though it is housed and supported by Gaston Oaks Baptist Church in Dallas.
Conversion is downplayed in favor of community.
In the unsanitized biblical version the story begins with a loudmouthed brute who spews insults and vulgarity at the Lord's army and ends with his own decapitation. The plight of the Church today bears a striking similarity to the army of Israel and her so-called warriors. I wonder what a Christian in China, in an underground church there, might make of a book like this. We are trying to understand these new alliances, which are joining God's faithful envangelists, the new church management system and the United Nations with its loyal networks. These new groups unilaterally adopt a markedly different church lifestyle from that of their parent bodies, rejecting the authority of existing parent denominations and many established aspects of denominationalist faith and life, and putting in their place new authority, new structures, new names, new beliefs, new solutions, and new forms of church life .