. I was reading recently that the senior pastor of Toronto Christian Fellowship (laughter revival) after observing the significant migration beginning to happen out of organisations into organic life made two predictions for 2005. After this trip I would say they hold true for N.Z and try and resist number two happening (my opinion).

John Arnotts predictions:

 In the next year, we will see a growing number of traditional church and Para church leaders embrace simple church concepts.

 At the same time, as these concepts become more and more accepted, we will see a growing number of attempts to "organize and institutionalize" the house church movement.

Already in NZ we are seeing the organic ness of this new move of God be formalised into systems and structures. I really encourage people to sign nothing and agree to nothing official at this time but instead commit to building strong relationships that make you truly submitted one to another. In organisational church where many of us have most of our influences it is encouraged that we build systems and structures and then fill them. But being organic moves us away from formalised systems. We should hold to “Don’t organise it until there is something to organise”. I know for a fact that throughout this country we certainly are not at the stage where we need to worry about organising. I personally believe that signing pieces of paper and creating hierarchical structures are just an avoidance of building on strong relationships. I speak to myself in this. People like me who have been professionals in the institutional church have spent our professional lives building and supporting structures and it is one of the hardest things to break for myself. Do you know that in the seven years as a pastor I was involved with many structures and built many systems but I never had a relationship that I was mutually submitted to, that’s crazy!