Resources. How to start and run a local church: Why is a new local church needed and who should start it? Submit Bible questions, through our easy to use form, to our team of mature Christians known as the Email Evangelists. Do you feel it is time for a new fellowship or church to start in your area? This brief series offers some details and ideas about how to launch a successful new church that not only builds up its members but also reaches out to help others. Reasons to Start a Church Your current church is dead Do you find your local fellowship seems to have very little love for each other or is not very enthusiastic about preaching the gospel or serving? First try to find an existing group that suits your needs.
If none exists then a new group may be what is needed. Your church and existing fellowships have leadership do everything Many churches have members who simply attend services and do not do much else. Church politics is greatly decreasing your group's efforts Church leaders who are more concerned about their position and pet programs often resist God's spirit. Sin is openly practiced. New Churches. Online Churches. House church. House church, "home church" or in Mainland China 家庭教会 (literally "Family Church") is a label used to describe an independent assembly of Christians who gather for worship in a home. Sometimes these groups meet because the membership is small, and a home is the most appropriate place to gather, as in the beginning phase of the British New Church Movement. Sometimes this meeting style is preferred because the group is a member of an underground Christian movement, which is otherwise banned from meeting, as in China.
Some recent Christian writers have supported the view that the Christian Church should meet in houses, and have based the operation of their communities around multiple small home meetings. Early Christian house churches[edit] Scriptural basis[edit] Christians who meet together in homes usually do so because of a desire to return to basic Church meetings as found in the New Testament. Lifestyle Participatory meetings "What is the outcome then, brethren? Meeting in homes Leadership. Cell church. A cell church is a Christian church structure centering on the regular gathering of cell groups. Small group ministries are often called cell groups, but may also be called home groups, home friendship groups, home care groups, house fellowships, or life groups. A church with cell groups is not necessarily a cell church. A cell church must be composed of cell groups and centered on them.
In cell churches, a cell leader (if any) is considered to be effectively a pastor or mentor within the church. John Wesley used a form of cell group structure which he called Class Meetings as he formed his Methodist societies into a national movement, first in Great Britain and later in the United States in the 18th Century. Cell structure[edit] There are a number of structures used to organize and coordinate multiple cells within a church. See also[edit]