Church Comes Home: Start a House Church Network Anywhere
Ebook
Overview
People have lost faith in all collective institutions:
government, corporations, the media, and the church. We are in the
midst of a spiritual disaster, a flood of biblical proportions, and
house churches provide lifeboats for people who are seeking a more
authentic, life-giving form of Christian community.
Many people remember that the early church started in homes, but
they don’t understand that house churches are still a legitimate
and viable model today. House churches can create the intimacy so
many people are hungry for. They can nurture life-changing
discipleship for individuals and create justice-centered
communities. Networked house churches can become truly diverse,
multi-ethnic communities that spread the Gospel by emphasizing
practices over programs. These communities de-center the preacher,
opting instead for grassroots organizing, but they are not
leaderless — they are leader-full. This book provides an
alternative model for denominations and established churches to
consider. It will help pastors reconnect with the traditions of
community organizing, itinerant preaching, and discipleship
training that sparked Methodism and other church movements in the
United States. Church Comes Home offers alternative ways to
look at some of the problems facing our church and our culture.