With no permanent location and minimal branding, there are fewer non-personal reasons for members to stay; thus, shifts in membership tend to take place more rapidly in house churches.  If you have 8 people in a house, you are not reaching the city. It’s just that we want to give the Holy Spirit more “elbow room” to do his thing from person to person and gifting to gifting, with a minimum amount of rules and routines in between. Perhaps the primary problem with the Simple Church movement, and the house church movement in general, is that they see the book of Acts as a model for the church, which it was never intended to be. Many acclaim it as a rediscovery of New Testament Christianity, while … For those of us who are socially awkward, the home church, or at least home group, is a life saver. As Andy mentioned, in the home church it is important to find a group with stable, mature Christians, in order to be certain that we don’t end up founding a whole new religion.  So you stay in your one off small group, chasing people all the time, wondering why people are hard work and why the gospel isn’t changing their lives, and get frustrated. As we focus on Jesus as our source of unity, personal differences become less and less a barrier to fellowship. Email us at comments@standupforthetruth.com and tell us why. You only welcome people like you, so you never clash with anyone so you are never sharpened. Get ready to roll up your sleeves!  They want the same privileges as everyone else in the church – you preach, so I can preach; the elders can flow in the gifts, so I will just yell out in tongues wherever I want; the preacher preaches for an hour, so when I get up to give my 5 minute testimony I will take one hour; there are people up the front with musical instruments, so I will just walk over to the front and bring my musical instrument to church.  Without access to them, or people of their calibre, you are impoverished. I now understand that all this stems from pride..having a very high view of oneself thus not able to submit to leadership…eventually destitute of spiritual growth.  I am absolutely convinced this is not a revival of love and joy and peace and a new way of doing church as some of them think, but a big mis-step that leads to some of the most unhealthy expressions of Christianity I have seen.  I live in a city of 9 million people.  You end up scattered – a word that means confused. However, where I think the problems of the House Church "movement" is that these congregations are many times formed out of anger and dissolusionment with the "established" churches, hence the frequent disdain for specialized education for clergy and the self ordination thing.  Jesus said you will never be entrusted with anything if you cannot be faithful to that which is someone else’s (Luke 16.12). We are a growing network of growing churches, with services weekly in Dagenham, Guildford, Watford, Croydon, Brentwood and Dorset. The Bible has to be our plumb-line. As a visitor to Andy’s home church, I can say it was both spiritually refreshing and humbling. Its powerful to live together in community like this (a very Bonhoeffer inspired ideal). Incredible statements!  If you have 8 people, you don’t need any structure or formalization. The early church addressed their gatherings to "the church who met in ____'s house", so we call ours HOUSE CHURCH. ( Log Out /   There is something so powerful about people walking into a big meeting – it makes them big people. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.  Be aware! The small numbers make it difficult to keep these day-to-day details private—as much as house-church members also value independence and non-conventional viewpoints. The house-church movement has been a quiet revolution happening around the world. One house church website says, “Although all house churches are different, and they decide individually how they want to do things, in general there are no pastors.” Let these ‘givens’ be acknowledged. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It’s enjoyable work, for sure, but every “regular” is expected to pull his or her own weight in a variety of tasks, be it preparing a meal to serve, helping to prep/clean up the house of this week’s host, or studying just as hard as you would for a sermon or Bible study for this week’s interactive lesson. A number of years ago, a significant number of Christians turned their back on 10am services on a Sunday, public worship, preaching and structure – what they called the “institutionalized church” and started meeting in small groups in houses. Some churches are not It’s much easier to have healthier discussions sitting around a kitchen table or … Simpler, yes, but not “easier.”. You also find yourself getting pulled into helping others outside the meeting more often as you’re sharing life together. Statistic: U.S. House Church Movement Bigger than 2nd Largest Denomination by: Jim Rutz, WorldNetDaily. ... these problems. 10 Reasons The House Church Movement is a Misstep, How To Be Fruitful 02 Don’t Do What You Are Not Called, How To Be Fruitful 01 Do What You Are Called, Healing Truths 03: Why So Many Sick Christians, Healing Truths 02: Jesus Wants Everyone Well, A Good Work 02: The Character of an Elder. We are also planting churches in Cambridge, Suffolk, West Midlands and Hemel. Some who support the house church movement (associated with Jon Zens, Milt Rodriguez, Wolfgang Simson, Frank Viola and others) consider the term "house church" to be a misnomer, asserting that the main issue for Christians who gather together is not the location of the meeting, but whether or not Jesus Christ is the functional head of the gathering and face-to-face community is occurring.  They instead rely on the group in a dysfunctional way to keep them going through storms that really they should be laughing through. He is a former Evangelical Methodist and Nazarene stewards chair and teacher.  And so because of that, people in house churches are growing at a slower rate, they are not being inspired and challenged and equipped the way they should be. But it began to grow, and grow, and eventually they moved into an actual building. ( Log Out /   There is something missing in your faith if you turn up at church 5 minutes late every week, rush out the door afterwards and never build a relationship with anyone. This step is understandable.  Do you realize that Gregory Dickow’s wisdom and depth would never reach a church of 8 in a Living Room?  I would hate to think how impoverished Tree of Life people would be in 2015 if they had not heard Terri Savelle Foy, Gregory Dickow, Greg Mohr, Robert Maasbach, Bengt Wedemalm and Will Graham. There’s no grounds-keeping committee or set up/strike down team, as two examples.  When we clash, we can look at ourselves and sharpen up. In addition, people shared their resources to meet needs, God worked in mighty ways, and people joined the Christian movement on an ongoing basis. I am now back at a mid-size church, but the church has small home groups as well — the best of both worlds.  When we had 280 people in one service this year, it envisioned the whole church – this is what it can be every week, we can impact people, we can dream big.  It’s because they don’t know protocol, they don’t know honour, and they need to learn.  True pastors over time grow churches because they tend to their needs and feed them. The Church should be rooted and established in the love of Christ and not in man’s anger, which does not accomplish the righteousness of God (James 1). And when a house church congregation grows larger than the homes they meet in, its members will spin-off into new meetings with entirely different combinations of folks, and maybe even a house church network in your community.  Those who are wise will hear.   So as people realize the power of small, they reject and neglect the power of big. So what is the solution – it is simple. When it was founded in … In Beijing, one of the most prominent of them, called Zion Church (pictured), is so big that the house-church label seems wildly inappropriate. You have no size, so you have no structure, so you don’t know how to work in a structure and honour a structure.  Do you realize Terri Savelle Foy doesn’t come to preach to a “church” of 8 in a Living Room? Whenever we get people from house churches, I am always careful to see they are learning honour and learning the culture of honour, because otherwise they will be gone soon. Mary’s Faith Commitment Transcended Sentiment, Common, Everyday Faithfulness Is Key to God’s Mission, Following Jesus: On Seeing People but Not Persons.  That is the greatest problem with the house church movement, it is breeding confused people, people without pastors. The church growth people would …  You need to be part of a church that has a pastor.  You don’t have that in a house church, and so they often don’t understand the power of worship, they don’t understand the role of worship as a help and prelude to the Word. THE PROBLEM WITH THE HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT AND A SEARCH FOR THE UNITY OF HIS BODY.  As such, that is a danger for any church. In it … But if you arrive early at Greg Stultz's church, you might interrupt the hosts' last-minute … This is sometimes awkward, but also good if the people are willing to enter into an honest conversation with you about it. On the other hand, there is “the church invisible” we must consider—the Holy Spirit isn’t bound by church polity or the kind of building in which you gather. I highly recommend attending! So many churches in my area BUT they are all 501c3 and/or incorporated.  They don’t like it. Their evacuation out of the institutional church and into house churches may be the wrong move for some of the right reasons.  Reach out, go into all the world, make disciples who make disciples. Chinese House Church movement, little has been written to address this phenomenon’s rapid growth in the West.3 This paper, then, seeks to offer a broad outline of this movement’s growth in recent years. There are serious issues to deal with, and pastors, it's time to wake up and lead the church into the new wineskin. This problem is pervasive throughout the North American church. I have found it difficult in churches even of moderate size to really feel a part of the group. Its been so long since I have been in that environment but it is what I needed.  This then leads to a disdain and a critical attitude towards any church that meets in a building, that is large and that has structures.  People from small groups do not generally have a purpose that keeps them going through the storms. The modern house church movement has both captured allegiance and anxiety. Here is the problem with most of what passes for church life today, including many house churches: Rather than teaching people how to live dependent on Jesus Christ, it supplants that dependency by its misguided attempt to take the place of Jesus in people's lives.  People who have only been in a cosy small group don’t clash often, so don’t develop the skills to handle conflict.  It’s that simple.  There is something missing in a church like that. As we grow in the Spirit, whether in a formal or informal church environment, our desire to flee diminishes and love increases.  But when you all get together at once, and you have worship leaders who know what they are doing, and that worship is a prelude to a powerful equipping sermon, man that is something else. ... problems, and received the support and prayers of the others .  Missing out on being sharpened and growing. Find out more at www.tree.church, www.tree.church/youtube and www.tree.church/app. You cannot raise leaders quickly enough to multiply house churches. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. At most churches, it's embarrassing to show up late.  A healthy church needs small house meetings and big temple meetings. Trying to find one that isn’t or a home church has proved impossible. connect. Share your email and we’ll send you To Sow for A Great Awakening: A Call to Travailing Prayer, as well as weekly updates, announcements of new releases, special promotions, and more! First, home churches are often non-traditional and do not "feel" like church to those accustomed to meeting in church buildings. The book of Acts is the history of the early church, not a mandate for church structure throughout the ages. Currently around the globe, explosive Christian conversion growth from church planting movements is characterized by the reproduction of multiplying house churches and cell groups of no more than 10-30 people. (This one applies to any church or small group, actually.) If you’re just curious, or seriously considering leaving your brick-and-mortar church for a house church (or simple church, organic church, micro-church, etc. (Again, for another later post, why worship all night long or all service long without the preached Word will never change anyone’s life and is never once found in the New Testament). Andy Hogue is a husband and father, adjusting to life in suburban Austin, Texas, and finding it to be fertile ground for a house church ministry. It is not Biblical.  Look at this verse of Scripture: Finally, confused people deep down in their reborn spirits know that the house church is not enough.  It’s simple maths. The house church movement is large and is growing rapidly. Otherwise, the loss of intimacy, openness, and interaction will eventually compromise the group's attractiveness and plateau the numbers. A newspaper reporter for over a decade, he now engages in political communications for his day job, and on weekends enjoins the quest for the perfect barbecue brisket.  You will come to your house church every week and be soothed and forget about Monday, but you will never be fed and tended to so that you can eat Monday for breakfast.  A bit of introspection is good for the soul (too much, not so much, but that’s a different post for another day). While myriad individual, spiritual reasons exist why people attend less, decreasing frequency of attendance is the single biggest macro reason for overall church declines. The mega-church model which was the flavor of the week in church leadership circles for decades is now beginning to crumble. For example, a church has 400 people that attend four out of four weeks. You need a shepherd (shepherd and pastor are the same word in the Greek). It is a false teaching.  You need a pastor. Here are 10 Reasons the House Church Movement is a Mis-Step: I have found that the people who come from house churches and small house groups to the Tree inevitably struggle with showing honour where honour is due, because they have never had to before. I can see that, while there are scary notions of vulnerability that are easy to brush aside in an institutional church environment, there are also a lot of pluses to having a core group of people whose ministry can focus completely upon ministry without sacrificing any to infrastructure or overhead costs that come with a fixed building. It is also called simple church, open church, integrated church, micro church, and organic church.  You fail to learn why and cannot submit to another church structure long enough to find out why, so you storm off and attack the church, never realizing the problem is in your own heart and own lack of wisdom, and because the nice little house group where everybody knows your name, never prepared you for reality. You do not have a pastor, so you are in a bad place. It was not the same after that. So don’t join expecting the old gang to stick around: if it’s worth joining, the faces will change. It was not unusual for a speaker to be pacing in the hallway outside the living room, praying in quiet but audible prayer, before speaking. If you’re not “a cheerful giver,” beware: While no one is going to make a PowerPoint presentation for a building fund, and you won’t be reminded to whip open your wallet at the sound of check-tearing before the offertory prayer, giving is critical to the mission of a house church.  These people are true fivefold ministries – apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers – who know the love of God, who can equip the saints to do the works of ministry. Yet there’s a surprising amount of work that takes place.  One of the greatest things about a large meeting is that it gives vision.  If you are not, you will end up distressed and scattered.  We have also met people from these groups at conferences and spoken to them and discussed church with them. Do We Believe Our Prayer Makes a Difference?  If you want to grow and impact the world as a house church, you need to raise up an “elder” or “pastor” who can look after the new house church. Real Issues.God is raising up the simple, organic, house church movement. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Without a building schedule, the prayer could be a life altering experience.  The Bible has to be our plumb-line.  But what has happened is people have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. .  Rick Joyner says that all error in the church is simply people embracing a newly revealed truth at the expense of other truths. The institutional church is at great risk of irrelevancy and extinction. My husband and I really are interested in the house church movement, and have been for some time. Part of it was theological—they don't feel comfortable attending a church that denies women full participation in services and the life of the church. It’s less “judgmental.” For certain, there are churches and ministers who confuse discipleship for …  This is the way forward, saints. House churches tend to get very personal when it comes to sharing one another’s struggles with sin, personal doubts and fears—it’s inevitable that you’ll feel criticized every great so often.  Worship music is one of the most important gifts of helps in the New Testament – it helps people focus on God, it helps people consider how big God is, and it prepares people for the life-changing, preached Word.  Never challenged you to stand up, to honour, to submit, to do things you don’t feel like, to prefer another over yourself. The Bible is not just the plan of salvation (it …  But the group is not being fed the Word, does not have access to the fivefold ministry, is not being sharpened by the larger group, so the people grow slowly.  That is a tragedy. Granted, Andy and I have a long standing friendship for about 22-ish years.  It’s not that they are spiritual and keen, and I am envious and jealous. "House Church" is not bringing the Church into the House... it is bringing the Life and quality and depth of relationships we all desire and expect in our Home - into our Church Life. Coming from some one who is in “vocational ministry” (notice the quotation marks! Alas, as with all churches, it’s a collection of friends, family, and neighbors that will change over time.  Never following protocol because it is a blind spot to them, and so they then clash with the church because the church is of a certain size and therefore has protocols, they then get disillusioned, call the church harsh, and retreat back to their tiny groups. The house-churchers denigrate leadership and try to eliminate the concept of authority. we meet every tuesday and friday at 6:30 pm in homes across the thornton/northglenn area. For certain, there are churches and ministers who confuse discipleship for micro-management.  If you do not learn the power of honour, then you will never truly live. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. house is a home church movement dedicated to fighting relational poverty by welcoming people into the family of god. While this problem is certainly not limited to house churches, there is clearly no guarantee of protection from false teaching simply because the church changes its meeting format. ), this model I have actually participated in before and found it to be the lifeblood of the church.  The Bible is not just the plan of salvation (it would be a much shorter book if it was), but it is the key to how to function as the body of Christ on earth and we should function as a church in the same way the New Testament church functioned. Unfortunately, this problem is not unique to house Churches - Church splits are a reality faced by more formally organized Churches as well. Or do you think the home church movement is a dangerous trend?  Some of these people can be Christians for decades, they can minister the Word, they can flow in the gifts.  If you cannot honour a church, you will never have life-changing experiences in church. You do not have access to the fivefold ministry so your church is underdeveloped Christians. But given that our paths diverged many years ago, leading to some different theological views, it wasn’t weird in the least bit to gather together with his family and the house church.  Some people are just opposed to formality and structure. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Bringing our big building into a bunch of little buildings is very superficial. The little guy is back. In any situation where a change in church setting seems imminent, the most important thing is to find a church which honors Jesus Christ as “all in all” (Colossians 3:11). This book is a collection of … On the other hand, they’re equally passionate when it comes to sharing praises and the various “God moments” had during the week. House Church is the primary context where people will be known by others and is what keeps our church community intimate and organic – no matter how large Sundays gatherings grow.  You learn how to be faithful with and steward that which is anothers.  You need a temple meeting to attract the fivefold. Thank you for sharing! This page is intended to provide a solution to that problem by listing house churches searchable by location. Rad Zdero planted a house church network in Canada and wrote a book called The Global House Church Movement. Personal Freedom.  Well, as an experienced church planter who has planted six churches from nothing, five of which I am currently supervising and pastoring, we have had a number of people come from these groups and bringing the house church mentality with them.  Don’t get me wrong, there is something special about worship in a small group – all of our small groups have a time of worship in the Tree.  This has a number of names: house church, irregular church, organic church; but the principles are the same: you meet in houses in necessarily small groups and you focus on building relationships with those people. The other problem with a house church is, as Andy stated, that everybody knows everything. So if you want to check it out, go for it and visit with Andy.  You learn how to honour and prefer others, you learn how to submit and be involved in protocol. With the explosion of the Jesus movement in the 1970s many idealistic young people, as well as spiritually hungry older people, were seeking a greater experience of Christ and also of the New Testament church, and so the ranks of the LC swelled and they became a known quantity at least among Christians in many cities across the United States. But if it’s condemnation you feel from Christians genuinely caring about each other’s spiritual progress, a fully functioning house church is no hiding place. (Acts 2:41-47). Further, because home churches function as independent small groups, they need have no … Aside from their many advantages, below are five reasons why you should not join—or not start, for that matter—a house church. Many of us, myself included, have adopted the house church model in order to better reflect the inter-connectedness and dynamism found in the early church. The only Christian in my family, I would go to church alone, and I would leave alone soon after service, and it just left me feeling lonely and isolated. The more you baptize and make disciples, the more things will change, and the more diverse the fellowship becomes.  That has a big temple meeting and house meetings, just like the church in Jerusalem, in fact just like every church in the New Testament except Rome (The Roman authorities would not allow the church to have big meetings), and Rome had problems due to that!  You are not fulfilling the great commission.  That’s a given, because if they were the group would eventually grow. each week we eat dinner together, sing a few worship songs, pray for one another, and listen to or discuss a sermon. Too many house churches are filled with people who got burned by the more institutionalized church. Colossians 4:15, “Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.” Philemon 2, “[I write to] Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house.” So, it is clear that, in the earliest days of the church, the church regularly met in … There’s nothing wrong with picking a Christian fellowship with your ability and excitement to serve effectively with them as primary considerations. Being an isolated Christian is a lonely road. It always felt as though everybody already had their friends, and in my mind anyway, didn’t necessarily welcome an interloper. A Kansas City mega-church just lost their 20 million dollar campus to the bank. On the other hand, we might wonder whether it is possible to be the church and a "successful" institution at the same time.  Never underestimate the power of vision – vision gives life purpose. No one gets paid, so everyone must pull together for the home-based church to succeed.  I have pastored many growing churches, and as things grow you need to inevitably formalize that which is informal. Many house church enthusiasts--both seekers and hosts--have requested some solution to the problem of finding an existing house church. You never benefit from corporate worship. They move from one local assembly to the other but they never get satisfied; they complain and murmur about everything and nothing…they find fault with everyone and every program…the pastor, the elders, the music, the congregation among many others. Image attribution: Justin Skinner / Thinkstock. My report on the Kenya House Church Movement consists of three emails from pastors there. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I think we really need to feel known, and we need to feel cared about. Because almost all of the proceeds go directly toward missions work and local charity, giving becomes all the more exciting!  They will love your little group because of the low-challenge, high-acceptance nature of the group, but they will not grow. Change ). They think that honouring someone is foolish, yet it is where life comes from.  How you can turn around and say “it’s not about the numbers” I don’t know. The paradox of modern Christianity in this regard is that Christians say we want community but when it happens we bemoan and demean it!  You can start with 8 people in a house (I wish I had 8 people in a house when I started, we started with 3) but don’t end there. Previous How Confusion Breeds Chrislam Next Persecution and unity in the church: What’s the connection? You never benefit from the vision of a large service. The Spirit can move in such small numbers as much as I know He can in larger gatherings.  But because the house church does not teach them how to submit to authority, how to handle conflict, how to show honour  – when you do decide to step out of the pond into the sea, you clash, you feel out of sorts and you don’t know why. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd (Matthew 9.36, ASV). And this book gives you, for the first time, a real-life inside look at the controversies, struggles, victories, and personalities emerging from within this revolution. In some places it is out of necessity due to governmental constraints. It is indeed less labor-intensive on many fronts to be a part of a simply organized house church. The final email being from Pastor Charles the founder and leader of the KHC Movement.  In fact, they will say things like “it’s not about the numbers”, “size doesn’t matter”, “small is beautiful” that make you think that they really do not care about reaching their cities and towns for Christ, but rather care about their culture and small group to the exclusion of the people who need Christ. What role does the home church or fellowship group play in these challenging and changing times? They know all the things you posted on facebook, for example. I have had people get furious at me because I will not let someone I do not know pray for the sick at the end of a service. Great exposition! A house church full of those who share your interests or who at least get your jokes can seem all the more appealing.  But they cannot handle conflict. 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