Cell Church and Denominations

by Mario Vega Elim church was born as a traditional church. It made its transition to become a cell church after its first nine years and at that time, it had a few branch churches. A year later all of the branch churches also made their transition to become cell...

Local Autonomy and Denominational Diversity

by Jim Wall In order for a cell-based church to thrive within a denominational context, the denomination has to allow the local church to develop its own ministry structures; i.e. local autonomy. Unfortunately, that often isn’t enough. I was in a denomination...

Focusing on the Principles–not the Container

by Bill Mellinger, pastor of Crestline First Baptist, a church in transition Crestline First Baptist is a member of Transformation Ministries. This association of churches with a historic Baptist tradition operates with a congregational model of church order. That...

Denominational Cell Churches

by Joel Comiskey I was surprised when the leader of a mega cell church movement asked me if I thought denominational churches could also be cell churches. He felt denominations hindered the cell church flow. I told him that I had seen many great examples of cell...