Winning the World

58 Wi nn i ng the Wor l d: Fac i l i tat i ng Urban Chur ch P l ant i ng Movement s

school, the public school, and the home school are all okay, depending on where the Lord wants you to be – a distinctly missional approach .)

d. Characteristics of house churches

(1) Small

(2) Can meet anywhere

(3) “It is a spiritual, enlarged, organic family . . . inherently participatory and not consumer provider driven,” p. 29

(4) Not a slam dunk in terms of relationships; can be messy and can easily get off track, p. 33

5. The key to unity in diversity of models is the conception of the regional church (i.e., the locale church-Davis), cf. p. 35.

a. The Regional church = churches of all types, whether community, mega-churches, or house churches in a particular geographical area, regardless of denomina tion. These churches together are called to represent the body of Christ in a region.

b. NT church identified in terms of specific city boundaries (e.g., Antioch, Corinth, Jerusalem, Smyrna, etc.), p. 36

c. Today denominational identity takes precedence over geographical proximity, and can cause divisions among the body of Christ , p. 36.

d. Need to identify and recognize the spiritual “fathers of the region” to unify and lead the regional church in