You probably have some questions about home church that can be quickly answered on this page! If you have questions that aren’t addressed here, don’t hesitate to reach out and Contact Us or use the form below!
A home church is a church that doesn’t meet in a dedicated church building. They typically meet in a home or outside.
A few advantages include: no/low overhead, no financial responsibility to paid staff, small numbers = deeper relationships and spiritual intimacy, and easier to invite neighbors when church is down the street and in a familiar place.
You can get started in the HCR online community where you will find support, education, tools, coaching, encouragement and lots of prayer! Learn more about our online training community through watching a brief webinar!
According to one of the leading home church experts, Curtis Sergeant, home churches tend to have less heresy than traditional churches because you have more access to the teaching and more accountability. In the large church setting you may have no access to the person preaching/teaching and almost certainly have no way to hold them accountable.
No one in the Bible who started a church had a degree. I (Matt) have a theology degree and yet I also understand that if we limit our leadership to those with degrees we will miss most of our opportunities to raise up leaders and make an impact. Read Acts 4 – even the apostles were seen as unschooled and ordinary! And yet they did miracles and proclaimed Jesus BOLDLY! We want to find the ordinary disciples and train them/you to go into the harvest field (Luke 10:2)!
Yes! We offer several free resources:
1. Discovery Bible Study course – a simple way of transformative Bible study
2. Testimony Area – read and share God stories
3. Lesson & Study Library (700+ page of material)
4. Weekly Video Lesson
To access the Free resources, just go to this link and click “Join”
There are a number of reasons including:
- It helps us pay to keep operating.
- It increases the level of quality and engagement because people are invested.
- It keeps out spam/bots
- It helps keep certain conversations and prayer requests more confidential/private than in a public/free forum.
No you do not. There are tax advantages (deductions) if you are recognized as a federal non-profit but many who start home churches have little interest in going through all of that, while others do.
Yes! Just go to the app store and install the Circle.so app. Use your login and you can access everything from your phone/tablet!
You can make a tax deductible donation through our Backyard Church non-profit. Here is the link – Make a Donation.
Yes we do! You can sign up for it here – HCR Newsletter.
We have a prayer team to pray over what is going on in those taking the training (who request prayers). You can sign up here – HCR Prayer Team.
It can be hard to connect you to an existing home church because they don’t tend to advertise like a traditional church. There are two things you can do:
1 – Pray and ask God to connect you with an existing home church
2 – Consider starting a home church. We are here to help! Just start with learning more here.