Back to the Houses

by Mario Vega In this day and age, we have become accustomed to divide our lives between the secular and spiritual. However, this is a totally unknown division from the teachings of Scripture. Today we build church buildings for Jesus while we go on living our real...

Cell and Celebration

by Steve Cordle As the Apostle Paul was preparing to leave Ephesus, he reminded the elders, “You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.” (Acts 20:20) Why did Paul...

Cell and Celebration

by Jim Wall It was a Sunday morning in 1989. My wife and I had been praying and planning for this day for a decade. We stood in the parking lot of the day care center wondering if anyone would come to the first gathering of a new church. By 10:30 a.m. cars started...

Simple!

by Jeff Tunnell My practical side asks simply, “Why not do it the way the boys in the Bible did?” (not excluding the ladies of course). The rest just seems to complicate things. Certainly we need the clearest theology and the Bible is clear, so we...

Cell and Celebration

by Joel Comiskey We know for sure that the early church met in house churches. Were these house churches independent of each other? I don’t think so. Scripture indicates a connection between the house churches in each city (e.g., 1 Corinthians 1:2; 14:23;...