Articles on House Church by Keith Giles

*FROM THE [SUBVERSIVE UNDERGROUND] ARCHIVES:

JOY (A report of what happens in our house church meetings)

BBQ WAFFLES? (If we want what they had, we have to do what they did)

WHAT IF? (What would happen if Church took place every single day?)

SUCCESS AND FAILURE (What dos "success" look like in the house church?)

STEP ONE (A look at what happened our first night at "The Mission")

HOUSE (Someone actually suggested that house church wasn't Biblical....?)

MODELS (How important are models of doing/being church?)

FAILURE (God shows me my own hypocrisy in the middle of our house church meeting)

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(FROM THE MAIN WEBSITE ARCHIVES)

DOWN RIVER (Leaving "The River" to enter "The Mission)

TERTULLIAN'S WINDOW (A quote from Tertullian about early church life)

THE MISSION: OUR VISION AND VALUES (Our Vision and Values Statement at The Mission)

STATUS REPORT: THE MISSION

A WEDDING A WEEK? (The difference between a Wedding and Thanksgiving in terms of Community-Building)

WHY THE HOUSE CHURCH? (A list of reasons why House Church makes sense)

2 MORE REASONS WHY THE HOUSE CHURCH (nuff said)

IN PRAISE OF THE LOCAL CHURCH (Keith eats crow!)

APPLES AND ORANGES (The Goal of an Apple Tree is not to produce apples...)

LIVING STONES (A short note on how we, the people of God, are the Church)

TWO OR MORE (God teaches me another lesson in the house church)

THE MISSION UPDATE- MARCH

CONSTANTINIAN FALL-OUT (this one has some negative and frustrating emotion in it, but it is valid to the discussion)

CLOSED DOORS, OPEN WINDOWS (My experience leaving the traditional church and entering full-time house church)

CLOSED DOORS, OPEN WINDOWS (My experience leaving the traditional church and entering full-time house church)

THE EARLY CHURCH AND US (Excerpts from an excellent article by Ray Mayhew that helped formulate my calling into house church)

LIGHT VS HEAT (Reformation, not Revolution)

TOMMY (A surprising story of compassion and mission on house church night)

The Mission: 2007

This is the year that The Mission launches a second group. We've grown so large on our Thursday night gatherings that a second group is inevitable, and necessary.

It's not something I look forward to since it means saying goodbye to many of our dear family in Christ.

Still, this is one of the three phases of growth that we anticipated early on as The Mission was forming.

Phase 1 was the mid-week Thursday group.

Phase 2 was the Sunday morning gathering.

Phase 3 is when we split one of those groups into a second group.

More as the Lord leads us...

peas,
Keith