They have no shame

[good samaritan]

Originally Posted by Esaias

We will never "outgrow the living room" to chase after a mortgage on a special meeting place. The reason we meet in houses is because we believe that is the Biblical, apostolic way.

Growth is not determined by the size of one's living room. Salvation, in the Biblical model, takes place "out there", as opposed to the modern institutional model where salvation occurs primarily inside the "temple" building. If we have too many people to fit in the living room it is time for the church to reproduce, becoming two ecclesias.

There was unprecedented growth in the apostolic church for over 200 years of it's history dating from Pentecost, and that whole time congregations met "house to house".

The building-centric view of church and the biblical house church model have very different approaches to evangelism, growth, etc.


I don't want every lost soul to fit in my living room. I want every lost soul to hear the gospel, and those whom the Lord saves to be discipled and taught to replicate in others what happened in them.

Most of them will have a living room. So rather than gather everyone to me and stuff them into my little can, I'd rather see tens, scores, hundreds of ecclesias, all expanding outward from where they are.

Growth via multiplication as opposed to addition.

I firmly believe the early church growth was because of the signs that followed the Church. Big, Medium,small, in a house, in a church building, if we start doing the exploits the early church did you are going to see the growth the way the early church grew. Our church is so tiny people that visit from other churches ussually make remarks, but I don't care. I pray for God to work miracles among us.

When people start coming up out of wheel chairs I don't think giving will be a problem. Is this common in your meetings? This was what was happening in the early church. I pray for your church right now as I type this. Lord prepare the hearts for a great revival.