Winning the World

90 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

(1) Smaller groups foster accountability and deeper relationships.

(2) “Outside the mentality of religious meetings,” i.e., “church is the people living their lives in an extended spiritual family as they focus on reaching the lost,” Kreider, p. 83.

3. House churches that are healthy will certainly network , Kreider, p. 83.

a. Most networks are regional , but not necessarily so.

b. House churches connect on the basis of values , and it may be necessary to form your own house church network for the sake of “encouragement, oversight, and spiritual protection,” and may either be small or larger with “apostolic leaders,” Kreider, p. 83.

c. House churches without a network become sick: they stagnate, become inward focused, and don’t look out to the harvest, p. 83.

4. Not all house churches and HCNs are the same: some are healthy, but others unproductive, reactionary, and exclusive, limited by personality of the leader, p. 83.

5. When all forms of the regional church work together (community churches, mega-churches, and house churches), great impact can be made on an area.

a. Some community and mega-churches will commission leaders to start house churches .