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Home Christian church Growth

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By : Jason Evans 29 or more times read

Submitted 2010-07-29 00:09:52

A house church is one of the more difficult there is to grow. As a former pastor of a house church I can tell you that it is very different than church growth of a normal church on the corner. You do not have the visibility and advertising is not something that could be done easily.

I have learned a few things about church growth, which I need to share with those who are in house churches across America. There are a few things you want to understand at first. These problems will affect any church growth attempts you make.

The first issue your home church will face is that of a meeting place. Not everyone wants to have strangers in their home. If your church grows it will have to do so through use of some other alternative meeting places. This of course is just if you need your church to develop that much. If you merely develop by gaining members that you already know then you should have no problems.

That brings up the next issue you require to mull over. How much do you require your home church to develop by? The very beauty of a home church is the intimacy that the members enjoy. That intimacy would diminish as the church grows if it gets too huge.

These are your two biggest concerns. There are merely two ways to solve the problems. You may either grow merely by including more friends and not strangers. That is one way to solve the difficulty. The next way is to commit to building a normal church with small groups.

Because the growth of a home church that merely includes those who are already friends may merely go so far and this article is about church growth I will not talk about the other option. Like I already said you could commit to building a church. This is going to take a lot more than most home churches can handle.

I would like to make simply one suggestion beforehand you go down that road. Have your members spend time in other established churches. This will do a few things. It will test your member’s loyalty to each other and the common goal. It will also give you ideas on how to establish your church.

As you visit these other christian churches develop your own house church by inviting people to your home church. You do not have to hold service on the same days. This will test your home church to see how it could handle growth. It will also give you experience in dealing with a changing church. Numerous home churches could not survive this method.

That is why you really have to mull over what you are doing very carefully. Prayer is one of the most imperative things to this technique. No church should take growth lightly… even a small home church. As you can see there are pit falls to the growth of a home church. Growth can be straightforward for established public christian churches… but it is not the same for the small home church.

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