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Plant a simple church at house
“If you want to plant something that lasts a season, plant a flower. If you want something that lasts a lifetime, plant a tree. If you want something that lasts for eternity, plant a church”.
David J. Hesselgrave
A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF SIMPLE CHURCHES AT HOUSES
- A global, family-based network of house churches from a wide variety of backgrounds, denominations and faith communities.
- Truth-keepers who take seriously Jesus’ commands to read, obey, and share the Everlasting Gospel of Jesus
- Not owned, operated, or controlled by any institutional enty.
- It is an organic, decentralized church led by lay people empowered by spiritual gifts.
ORDINATION OF ALL BELIEVERS TO DO ALL THE WORK OF DISCIPLE-MAKING.
“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you”.
~ John 15:16 ~ (NLT)
READ THE EVIDENCE FOR YOURSELF
In 2019, for the first time in US history, a new study that analyzed church data from 34 Protestant denominations and groups found that 4,500 churches closed in 2019, while about 3,000 new congregations were started. The 34 Protestant denominations account for about 60% of U.S. based Protestant denominations. Note that this is a pre-COVID benchmark, projected to become more pronounced in the wake of COVID-19
In 2014, researcher Alan Hirsch discovered that “Of 318 million Americans, 208 million (about 60%) are not interested in walking into the front doors of a conventional church.” In other words, today’s mission field is done with the conventional church (except for 1st and 2nd generational immigrants). So the new question is, how do we reach them – which has risen and is now closer to 80%?
In 2015, Josh Packard’s research discovered that “approximately 104 million (33%) have left the church.”
Who are these 104 million? They call them the “doers.” They have given years of service within their local church as elders, deacons, children’s ministry leaders, etc., only to discover they are ineffective in reaching today’s modern mission field.
Packard continues, “Our interviews indicate that the dechurched are among the most dedicated people in any congregation. They often work themselves into positions of leadership in an attempt to fix the things about the church that dissatisfy them before ultimately deciding their energies could be better spent elsewhere. In other words, the dechurched were the “doers” in their congregations.”
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