What interests do Barna and Tyndale have in promoting this book?
Barna is a church reformer who wants to see God’s will established now and in the future. Your readers can hear him talk passionately about this at www.ptmin.org/barna_viola.mp3 and www.ptmin.org/barna_viola2.mp3 Tyndale felt the message of the book was important enough to publish so that Christians would hear and interact with it. I’d say that our interest is the recovery of God’s will for His church. And that is something that touches every Christian. 11. Wayne Jacobsen, an author widely read and admired by many house church adherents, is not a necessarily a fan of house churches over other types of churches. He points out that just because we follow the example of the apostles by modeling our church structure on theirs doesn’t mean we will experience the life they shared or that imitating the fruit will bring fruit. He believes that the life of Christ precedes the church, that the life must be present and that life will naturally result in a local assembly of Christians. (Jacobsen’s
