Book review by Denise DiGiglia As an independent 18 year old, living away from my comfortable farm life, I was fortunate to have a great spiritual mentor. Instead of just feeding me information he asked questions. One of the things I appreciated most about Gardner’s book is the questions he asks throughout. Referencing the subtitle, […]
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The Church Comes Home
Highly recommended book by Robert and Julia Banks. About 260 pages, this will take some time to get through, but it’s well worth the effort. The following excerpt is so important, I hope you read this and commit yourselves to loving your new family members “for better or for worse”. Paul frequently spoke of the […]
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Simply Church
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Stick Your Neck Out
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House Church Essentials
This book by John C. Fenn is about 114 pages and is an easy read. It gives practical and spiritual advice on starting and maintaining house church. The excerpt below is about relationships. One of our house churches, the leaders had sat at home for about seven or eight weeks and realized that they couldn’t […]
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Simple / House Church Revolution
This book by Roger Thoman is only 60 pages and easy to read. I have included a short excerpt below. You can download this for free here. Coming together, for Jesus-followers, is really as easy as, well, coming together. The Bible does not provide us with an outline or order of service because we are […]
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Divine Life
This article is from Jon Zens and discusses how the early church survived and thrived without the New Testament. If you’ve been involved in house church, you’ve most likely experienced people wanting, almost demanding to be taught the Word. I call it the “need to feed” syndrome. Some people even refer to house church as […]
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Measuring Success
This powerful message is the second excerpt from the book unchurching by Ricard Jacobson. Maybe the reason we do not recognize the true cost of today’s church model is because when we turn the church into an organization, we start to think like an organization-we begin measuring success in worldly terms, not spiritual terms. The […]
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Pastors – Let My People Go
Below is an excerpt from a chapter entitled A Church of Spectators. Reading this reminded me of Isaiah 1:18 where it says “Come now, let us reason together”. Enjoy! For 1700 years the traditional church as a whole has become filled with spectator Christians, people who do nothing more than sit and watch, sing songs, […]
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unchurching
The excerpt below is entitled Raising Veal from unchurching by Richard Jacobson. Richard’s website is no longer active but you can still access his podcasts by going here. This book has some great points but the overall flow seemed a bit disjointed. It was the Romans who eventually institutionalized the church, starting in the early […]