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You can help kickstart the next House2House magazine. Before House2House had a website or conference it all began with a printed magazine. The House2House magazine ended up in a lot of people’s hands and contributed to spark the growing house church movement. As the Holy Spirit was stirring this vision of simple, organic churches in…

Someone recently commented to my wife, regarding our core community gang, “It’s obvious that you guys really take care of each other.” It’s been a while since I have blogged on the topic of community-life due to a greater focus on the missional aspect of 24/7 organic church lifestyle. But, I do not want to…

One of the transformations that the church is going through is the metamorphosis into a new creation that has the motivation and ability to love with no strings attached.  Our more institutional churches struggle with aspects of this because the business of church requires attenders and givers to keep it all going.  However, we often…

There is nothing like Victor Chouhrie to keep our compasses pointed true-north and to… well… challenge us.  Victor has one of the most fruitful ministries ever with thousands of churches planted and hundreds of thousands of baptisms in India. You can read all 21 of his steps in a paper entitled “Mega Church to Meta…

I met with a thirty-something couple yesterday who was describing the frustration of reaching out to people their own age who had grown up in church youth groups offering a typical ‘relevant’ Gospel.  While the appealing music and messages drew crowds together, many of those youngsters somehow missed the reality of a lasting intimacy with…

I was trying to think what I have read, recently, that has been ultra-inspiring on the topic of simple/house/organic church.  Since nothing came immediately to mind… I decided to ask YOU! What have you read, whether book or blog post, that has been particularly meaningful, very helpful, paradigm-shifting, or just plain good on this topic?…

Whether simple-church or mega-church, motivation is an issue. What stirs us?  What grips us?Craig Kirkby, in his book called “Living on the Edge of Time” suggests that some of the problem with the western church has been our fascination with a “tarry until the rapture” mentality with a fatalistic view of the world and our…

Some may still believe that the “call of God” is for those select few who have a ‘higher’ purpose than others: to be ‘in ministry,’ or to be ‘a pastor,’ or to serve in ‘fulltime Christian service’ as though there is any other way to live for Jesus. Fortunately, one of the primary messages of…

House2House Ministry is going through a number of great changes including several regional conferences. Following is the info on the San Francisco Bay Area Conference in October. Be sure to check out their updated website as well! House2House in association with The Well is pleased to invite you to attend The Bay Area Momentum Conference…

There are challenges in the organic/simple church movement: Believers seeking the latest fad rather than a deeper lifestyle of faith and sacrifice.  Churches that are simply smaller versions of institutional ones.  People attending house churches to see if this model can meet ‘their needs.’ But there is another side that is sometimes less visible: a…