By Joel Comiskey, Making Cell Groups Work Years ago, on an email forum called cellchurchtalk, my friend Rick Diefenderfer declared with godly fervor that a pure cell church has no programs. None, nada, nothing. No choir, no Sunday school, no new believer’s class, not...
By Joel Comiskey, Research on Ralph Neighbour and the Pure Cell Church When I began researching cell-based churches for my doctoral studies, one name kept rising to the top: Ralph Neighbour. No one had written more extensively on the cell church or studied it more...
By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv The cell group is an ideal setting for discipleship, exercising spiritual gifts, and pastoral care. This statement is not an attempt to exaggerate the importance of small gatherings in homes, but a conclusion drawn from the life of the...
By Aaron Lemuel de la Torre, Iglesia Bautista de la Comunidad, Hidalgo, Texas A couple of years ago, I had the privilege of visiting with Ralph Neighbour. Several parts of that conversation impacted me, but one stood above the rest: his deep concern that our churches...
By Rob Campbell, Executive Director, Africa Renewal Ministries (www.africarenewal.org) Why holistic small groups form the soil where discipleship, pastoral care, and spiritual gifts grow. In the early days of the cell movement, some leaders assumed the goal was to...
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