Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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2. Cell groups as a place for equipping and natural setting for evangelism (i.e., evangelism as a team, in prayer for their personal oikos )

3. Loving environment to draw new believers in for love and care, p. 10

4. David Yongi Cho’s Korean church, multitudes of cell churches emerged which cut through and transcended denominational lines. 5. Cell church wisdom permeates most denominations: churches which start as cell-based churches, others transitioned to cell-based ministries, others developed cells within current church structure.

6. The bottom line: cell churches continue to function mainly within the traditional church structure, p. 10.

a. Cell churches as complimentary ministries to the larger Sunday church meeting

b. Larger meetings linked to smaller cell meetings require cell leaders, assistants and zone pastors , all of whom are accountable to the church leadership team.

c. Cell churches require a church building or headquarters to accommodate the various church functions, p. 10.

E. How “house churches” function

1. House churches are not parts of a larger church; they are viewed as real, bona fide, little churches .

2. Each house church functions as a complete, little church, not led by a cell leader and assistant leaders , but by “a spiritual father or mother who functions as the elder along with a small eldership team for the little church,” p. 11.

3. No need for a church building; each house church is a “fully functioning church in itself, meeting in a home,” p. 11.