Paul Vieira – Jesus Has Left The Building
Posted by ljoh3106 on January 27, 2008
Paul Vieira is the author of the book “Jesus Has Left The Building”. He shares his journey from being a “promising” young pastor in a very large church to relative “obscurity” in the organic church. He was recently a speaker at the National House Church Conference in Denver.
I was recently told about his podcast where he reads selected sections from the chapters of his book. He has been posting these podcasts since November and is now up to chapter 9. You can download these if you have iTunes or you can go to directly to the website http://paulvieira.podbean.com/ and either download the podcasts or listen to them on the website. Then if after listening to a few of them, like me, you decide to buy the book, go to http://www.paulvieira.info/ and buy it directly from the website for only $15.99.
I just listened to his chapter 2 podcast and one of his ideas really sticks in my head. When he left the “organized” church, he felt that he had to go through a period of “detox” so that God could work through him the way He wanted to. Its about not putting new wine in old wineskins. You have to have a new wineskin for new wine. Many of us may still be in a period of “detox” because we haven’t really understood what it means to go out of the building, whether it be a large “church” building, or a small house. We may be operating under the old paradigm. Maybe I’m still going through this “detox” period. Maybe you are. But look around and you will see others that have gone past this and really understand what it means for Jesus to leave the building.
I challenge the house churches of Phoenix and Arizona to bring Paul Vieira here for a weekend conference in the spring. He lives in British Columbia so I imagine he would not mind visiting Arizona. Please contact me via email ( ljoh3106@cox.net ) or phone 602-524-9400 if you would like to help organize our next city-wide church gathering.
