Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Seeking the priesthood of all believers

Intense commitment and honesty are 'God-filled times' for some but not all

The Kitchener-Waterloo House Churches were founded in 1969 by John Miller and Walter Klaassen-both professors at the time at die then-named Conrad Grebel College-along with others. Their impulse, like tiiat of other house churches founded around that time, was to return to an early church format where "the priesthood of all believers" mentioned in I Peter 2:5,9 was to be practised. This was a fundamental part of Mennonite Church Concern Movement beliefs among scholars and church leaders in the 1960s and 70s.

The KW House Churches are intense, intimate and intentional communities of worship, mutual …

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