Winning the World

Ses s i on 2: Def i n i ng Chur ch P l ant Movement s

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a. What is occurring in places like China, central Asia, Latin America, India, and Cambodia will soon impact North America.

b. In house church networks , each house church functions as a “little church.”

c. They function together as networks for the sake of fostering accountability and encouragement.

B. NT description of church: a flattened, egalitarian model of the church, p. 2

For Kreider, the original ekklesia of Acts was essentially the original egalitarian house church network

1. The NT church was defined as the people, p. 2.

upon which his model is based.

2. Believers did not go to church or join the church; they were the church (what about Acts 2.47: praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved).

3. All members functioned as priests, everyone served as ministers (what about the apostolic role?), p. 2.

4. Each person got on-the-job training to make disciples, p. 2.

5. Practiced faith in spiritual families , and met in homes, p. 2.

C. Appeal and necessity of house church networks

1. Both young Gen X (18-35) and older generations (middle-ages and seniors) find no existing form of church (i.e., “existing wineskins”) to either find their niche or