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9781565631793

The Church Comes Home

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  • ISBN13:

    9781565631793

  • ISBN10:

    156563179X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-01-01
  • Publisher: Hendrickson Pub
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Summary

The Church Comes Home is a handbook for those interested in home churches. It is both visionary and practical. It describes how home churches can be formed, how they should grow, and how networks of home churches can develop.

Table of Contents

PREFACE vii
Chapter 1 THE INSIDE STORY Word Pictures of New Styles of Church
1(23)
Chapter 2 IN THE BEGINNING The Upside-Down Church of the Early Christians
24(25)
Chapter 3 A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES Participatory Forms of Church Life through the Centuries
49(25)
Chapter 4 SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Testimonies and Hindrances to the Home-Church Experience
74(25)
Chapter 5 FIRST STEPS How Home Churches Come into Being
99(27)
Chapter 6 EXPERIMENTS IN PROGRESS Current Models of Home Churches and Home-Church-Based Congregations
126(31)
Chapter 7 GATHERING TOGETHER A Conversation about the Art and Craft of Home-Church Meetings
157(27)
Chapter 8 GROWING PAINS IN THE FAMILY Tensions in Home-Church Life
184(20)
Chapter 9 THE IMPORTANCE OF INREACH Ministering to Children and Adults
204(24)
Chapter 10 AGENTS OF TRANSFORMATION Reaching Out to the Community at Large
228(21)
APPENDIX Some Questions about Home Churches 249(10)
SUGGESTED READING LIST 259

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