The Leader as Pastor

By Joel Comiskey We’ve been talking these past few weeks about the cell as the church, and most likely you are in agreement. But isn’t it a logical conclusion to view the leader of the cell as the pastor of the house church? This concept seems strange to...

Experiencing Worship

By Rob Campbell, www.cypresscreekchurch.com Leonard Sweet writes, “Churches in the postmodern communities will be built; not around great preachers, but around great experiences.  Preaching must cease to be the “presentation of points of view” or the...

Really? The Cell is the Church? (part 2)

By Bill Mellinger, Crestline First Baptist Did you know that Jesus only refers to the “church” two times in the Gospels? (See Matthew 16:18 and Matthew 18:17.) In Revelation 2 and 3, he also speaks to the seven “churches” of Asia. His first usage is following...

A Ministry Audit

by Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org Sometimes people assume that because we are a cell church we do not have a worship service or a building. They are confusing cell church with house church. A major difference between the two is that a cell church has a...