North Phoenix House ChurchThis 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 […]
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 […]
My mom, at 93, still has a sharp mind. Her detailed recollection of childhood and life events is incredible. I recently asked her if she remembered doctors making house calls. She did, and then began telling me all the instances when doctors came to her home. House calls for doctors are a thing of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 Richard’s website is no longer active but you can still access his podcasts by going here.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 […]