DEVOTION TO READING SCRIPTURE

We have a Daily Bible Reading Plan on our website that leads us through the whole of Scripture, together with explanatory Bible Project films.  We trust that the Word will speak whatever happens!  It is our bread (and butter) for the journey.  We will meet in House Churches to read the bible and discuss and apply the passages for our lives. The church will be together in journeying through the whole bible and we will explore the question ‘what did the Spirit reveal through the week’s reading?’  The best guard against heresy is for everyone to be reading together.  

MEET IN HOMES OR ANY AVAILABLE BUILDINGS

We are keen to have no/few overheads and to not be swayed by finances. We would love our giving to be for local and global missional purposes. The Church will not be limited by the use of buildings and so any place can be reached regardless of the cost of property.  We will seek to create and environment of intimacy.  Our House Church Pastors are spiritual parents and not “spiritual babysitters” so we expect our families to grow up in the faith and share together.

EVERYONE DISCIPLED.  EVERYONE DISCIPLES.

We build simple and intentional structures.  Jesus discipled 12 people but particularly focussed on 3. We will try to do the same.  Our gatherings will be relaxed but real.  Hopefully every person knows who they are discipling and who is discipling them in love.  We will be able to draw a family tree of who is connected to who in their discipleship. 

EVERYONE USES THEIR GIFTS

This is hard to do but in a small gathering there is at least an environment in which we expect everyone to use their gifts. Leaders will not over use their gifts and so create space for others to grow theirs and to test and try them out.

REGULAR MULTIPLICATION OF CHURCHES

This focusses people on the mission.  Every year we multiply. If we don’t multiply then we get bigger and bigger and one set of spiritual parents become grandparents to many ‘children’.  What we want is for our children to grow up and leave home and become adults in the faith.  It is harder to move a 40 year old child out of your basement than a 20 year old.  It is good to multiply early!

SIMPLE GATHERINGS

Jesus is the draw.  We don’t need the best of everything.  We just offer ourselves and empower each other.  We enjoy meeting monthly for gathered worship to be a public witness, to provide a funnel for people to join and ‘come and see’ and to celebrate being part of something bigger than our house.  We live by faith and not by sight.