More Information about “Why House Church”

For us, a house church community is a body of believers who gather to worship Jesus as a family in their homes. We celebrate Jesus with food, fellowship, worship, prayer and teaching. Though there is one leading family who is hosting the gathering, the facilitator is always encouraging participation of all the members. It may just be one bible verse or something God did for them that week. It may be a testimony or a teaching for the children. Each week God is doing something unique depending on what happened with His Body that week, and depending who has gathered in the room to share about it. These meetings are also discussion based. One person may talk at the beginning to spark conversation but then it is opened up to the rest for discussion and further input.

If the house church grows bigger than the largest meeting area can hold, it multiplies into two homes by two strong and stable families starting their own house church together.

FOCUS ON RELATIONSHIPS 

House Churches are free to flow with the timeframe of what God is doing in their midst. They are naturally discussion focused and allow for everyone in attendance to use their spiritual gifting. “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another”1 Peter 4:10.
You can see the importance of the home and family from the Old Testament forward. The focus is not the house, the focus is the relationships in the home. The focus is accountability through relationships instead of accountability to a program or a structure. Paul is writing the New Testament to believers in living rooms. Investing in building relationships strengthens the person, the family, the friends and the entire Body of Christ.

BEING INTENTIONAL 

We seek to be intentional with each other. Intentional about how and why we meet, intentional with our neighbors and intentional about moving those we fellowship with to align our priorities in life – in prayer, in fellowship, in communication between meetings.
A house church meeting is not just another event to fill the week, it is intentional Christianity, relationship based faith and relationship based church.