Provides a home-church alternative model for growth and discipleship for denominations and established churches to consider.
Many large, thriving churches started small—in someone’s home—and grew either unintentionally or by design. As they outgrew their space, they rented a larger meeting room. If their membership continued to grow, they built their own church building, sometimes adding on to it. Often, this is the scenario we visualize when we think of a house church. In Church Comes Home, Dave Barnhart explains that a house church is intentionally small; creating the intimacy that so many people hunger for. And a house church can be a viable, alternative model for providing diverse, multi-ethnic communities that spread the Gospel by emphasizing practices over programs. It can be a lifeboat for people who seek a more authentic, life-giving form of Christian community.
