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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
As far as the substitution for Sunday Night Worship... that would differ from church to church.
But, IMO, the majority of the time cell churches are an effort on the part of "church" churches to react to and incorporate the house church movement while still maintaining the "church" church model.
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It depends. There are advantages for both large gatherings and small gatherings. It seems like many successful churches on the Outreach Magazine 100 list use similar models of small group ministry. Here are two books that I read recently from 2 of the top growing churches in the nation that really made me think about how to do small and large together
Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less
http://www.amazon.com/Deliberate-Sim...3&sr=8-1-spell
Sticky Church
http://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Church-...7169939&sr=1-1
Both authors have super huge churches with a very strong small group culture. Larry Osborne in Sticky Church says their actual cell attendance is like 80% of membership. I've been to his church in North San Diego... they run about 7000 in multiple services.
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