Home Fellowships

The word is taught and highly regarded. Paul encouraged over and over again the vast importance of healthy doctrine. Good teaching sown, reaps healthy, usable fruit within the body of Christ. More than anything we want people to be lovers of the person of Jesus. We do not want to be merely lovers of sermons, ministry, good books or community. Our devotion to the Word reveals the person of the Word. This is where each person in the body learns to feed themselves with the Scriptures.

1. Titus 1:9, 2:7, Acts 20:26,27, 1 Timothy 4:16

Home fellowships are to provide the committed, loving, and biblical relationships seen in the New Testament. Meeting in a home and in small groups allows for a unique opportunity to exercise the kind of intimate fellowship we find within the early church. The small group that meets in a home can become something like the immediate spiritual family of the church. It is the people we know the best, not necessarily because of mutual interests or similar life situations—it is because we have chosen to gather together on a regular basis in a small context and learn to love one another, bear each other’s burdens and follow Jesus together.

1. Galatians 6:2, James 5:16, 1 Peter 4:8

The time of gathering is to be lead by the Holy Spirit. This can be a time to sit before the Lord as a group and pray and seek Him. The flexibility of the small group allows for this time.

1. Colossians 1:18, Ephesians 6:18

We want to be made like Jesus. This would include a loving and surrendered life to Jesus, as well as accountability for spiritual disciplines concerning the Word, prayer, discipleship, sin, understanding, etc.

1. Hebrews 5:12-14, 6:1-3, 2 Peter 3:18

The intimacy and closeness of HFs provide an opportunity for people to serve in their giftings. Time and chance can be given during the gatherings because the time is intentionally structured to create space for everyone in the body to contribute during the gatherings and in everyday life.

1. 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 14:26, 1 Corinthians 14:29-31

Being in a home that likely lies within a neighborhood that represents hundreds sometimes thousands of people, HFs can be used to walk through, pray for, and share with neighbors. HFs provide a great time to invite people from your neighborhood to bible study and to serve by cleaning up or doing service projects for those in need.

1. Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 1:8, 19:10

The true fruit of a strong leader is not followers, but more strong leaders.  The true fruit of a healthy small group is not just more people in that group, but more healthy small groups. Our aim is to see leaders developed and equipped to help multiply small groups that so greatly add to the health, strength, and outreach of the body.

1. John 17:20, 2 Timothy 2:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:8