Month: February 2015

It's always interesting to see the press covering expressions of house church. This article is called "House Churches Swap Steeples For Sofas, And Say They've Never Been Closer." With new church construction at its lowest point since 1967, and with more religiously unaffiliated Americans than ever before, many congregations say they've become more committed communities…

We used to have a term for mission organizations that worked outside of the traditional church. We called them ‘para-church’ organizations as if they were not quite the substance of church but, instead, ministries that came alongside the ‘real’ church. Over the years, most of us have realized that those ministries which we called ‘para-church’…