I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about church, what it has become in the US and actually imagining what God might actually want it to become and be.
Reports throughout the US are depressing or at the very least don't offer up a lot of hope for the future the church in America. Reports about how church growth is down, or if there is a big church somewhere, the leader has just fallen from grace...it's depressing really and it seems that we have lost our way.
So when we hear reports of rapid and actually meaningful church growth occurring we generally don't think such churches exist in North America.
In His recent book, Missional House Churches, J. D. Payne reported his findings from a research of thirty-three house churches in the United States which are both experiencing amazing growth in reaching new believers and are planting other churches. The book is the first published work studying house churches and their missionary activities in the United States. Although these churches are not a representative sample of all American house churches, they do offer an encouraging model of what the Lord is presently doing in a Western context through non-traditional expressions of the Body of Christ.
Read the rest of this fascinating article here http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/990
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