The Radical Experiment | The Church at Brook Hills

My name is Brad Finley and I am a student minister in western KY. Jim Houston is my wife's uncle. Through listening to numerous podcast preached by David, God has impressed upon my heart to start the radical experiment this week. I am excited to see what God will do because I am convinced that the "normal" way of doing church is not biblical...it is not radical! In Christ, Brad

Posted on Apr 20th, 2010 at 9:16 AM by unknown

My church as a whole is not participating in the Radical Experiment, but one of the pastors asked me to lead a small group discussion through the book. Eight or so people ages 23-30. I personally have been feeling not just a tug, but a giant yank toward something more in my relationship with Christ.... I am anxious to see where this will lead me as an individual and our ittle group as a whole. Pray for us!

Posted on Aug 14th, 2010 at 9:53 AM by unknown

I read the Radical Question. I am a pastor. Here is part of the story of our radical following of Jesus for the past 35 years: When was the last time? A mentally woman who was being abused by her “Christian” husband lived with you for 6 months? A young woman who was sexually abused by her family lived with you for a year? A teenager who was kicked out of her house by her single-parent mother lived with you for a year? A young woman who was abandoned by her mother at birth and then abused by her alcoholic step-mother lived with you for over a year? A young man who was kicked out his home by his “Christian” parents lived with you for three months? You lived in a house next to a very large public housing project and your child attended the public school with the children from the project? You quit your job to run a shelter for homeless men and were paid about $600 a month. (This was in the early 90’s) You sat up all night with a refugee as he was dying of AIDS 6 months after he brought his wife and 2 small children from a refugee camp in Africa where he had lived for 8 years. You sat up all night with a family as they watched their 4 year old granddaughter die of AIDS a year after they had stood at the grave of the child’s mother who died of AIDS. You invited refugees from Africa and Afghanistan (Christian and Muslim) to your home on Thanksgiving Day for dinner. You threw a Birthday party for a 35 year old homeless man who was raised by an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother after you learn he has never had a birthday party in his life. You left your condo in the suburbs to buy a house in the inner city so you could live among the poor, disenfranchised, marginalized? Is Jesus worth this much to you? He is to my wife and I. Ron Friesen Oasis for The Nations Phoenix, AZ

Posted on Jun 13th, 2010 at 9:23 AM by unknown