Mentoring and Accountability

by Mario Vega There are two very important disciplines in the Christian faith: mentoring and accountability. Mentoring takes place when a person helps someone else become a disciple of Jesus. Mentoring is enhanced through encouragement, counseling, and especially...

Celebration Services Count

by Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org One of the major differences between house churches and cell churches is that cell churches gather their groups together for a worship celebration on a weekly basis. This both adds strength to the ministry and complicates it at...

Biblical Basis for Larger Gathering

by Ralph Neighbour Bill Beckham has described the cell church as a two-winged bird that has a “large wing” and a “small wing.” The two wings are clearly described in one verse, Acts 2:46: (1) they went to the temple to hear the Apostles teach and (2) broke bread in...

Containers or Contents?

by Jeff Tunnell As the early church grew and spread, containing it was not the goal, ever. Rather, the continual expansion and influence of the kingdom of God was the mandate from the church’s founder when he said, “Go into all the world” (Matthew 28:19), and then...

Discipleship Through The Larger Gathering

by Joel Comiskey Many don’t like the word cell. They equate it with a prison cell or secret communistic “cell” gathering. I welcome churches to change the word to something more palatable, like Life groups (although I tell churches to avoid changing...