Revival Starts Here By Dave Clayton – A Book Review
Date: 2018Pages: 79Authors: Dave Clayton Why This Book Matters Revival Starts Here: A Short Conversation on Prayer, Fasting and Revival for Beginners Like Me is a quick primer on fasting and prayer that will quickly inform and motivate you to engage in this transformative practice. This book is about wanting more and truly hungering and […]
Are Home Churches “Real” Churches? 10 Reasons Why the Answer is Yes!”
Home Churches Are Not Real Churches?!? Is that so? I hear it regularly – home churches are not real churches because real churches have clergy. Real churches have liturgy. Real churches have history and historical roots or apostolic succession or magestrium to make sure things don’t go off track… Two questions, then my defense of […]
Discipleship That Fits By Harrington & Absalom – A Book Review
Date: 2016Pages: 238Authors: Bobby Harrington & Alex Absalom Why This Book Matters Discipleship That Fits: The Five Kinds of Relationships God Uses to Help Us Grow is one of the most valuable books I have read on discipleship, particularly for anyone involved in leading or facilitating Christian gatherings or groups of any kind. The reason […]
Letters to the Church By Francis Chan – A Book Review
Date: 2018Pages: 219Author: Francis Chan Why This Book Matters Letters to the Church: by Francis Chan is written by a former megachurch minister that offers a loving critique of much of what drove his megachurch, what he has come to realize about church and where he believes things could head in the future. The book […]
How to Meet in Homes By Gene Edwards – A Book Review
Date: 1999Pages: 162Author: Gene Edwards Why This Book Matters How to Meet in Homes: a Revolution in Spiritual Depth and in the Practice of Church Life by Gene Edwards is a push for a revolution in the way Christians gather. Edwards’ experience as a missionary in Albania, after Albania opened up to the West in […]
The Master Plan of Evangelism By Robert Coleman – A Book Review
Date: 2006 (first edition 1963)Pages: 162Author: Robert Coleman Why This Book Matters The Master Plan of Evangelism is a landmark book first published in the 1960s. It was highly influential in a number of disciple making efforts and continues to add value and insight today. The book sold over 3 million copies over the years […]
Spirit Walk: The Extraordinary Power of Acts for Ordinary People by Steve Smith: A Book Review
Date: 2018Pages: 332Author: Steve Smith Why This Book Matters Spirit Walk comes from someone with decades of experience multiplying disciples and starting home churches. Steve Smith served in Asia and worked alongside Ying Kai, a well-known disciple maker who sparked generations of disciples across Asia and beyond. In this book, Smith shows how to walk […]
From Megachurch to Multiplication by Chris Galanos: A Book Review
Date: 2018Pages: 312 Why This Book Matters This book tells the story of one of the fastest growing megachurches in America that decided to go all in on making disciples and starting home churches. They set a goal of reaching on million people in ten years and realized the only approach that could get there […]
Going to Church in the First Century By Robert Banks: A Book Review
Date: 1980Pages: 48 Why This Book Matters There are a lot of books that talk about the archaeology of home churches and what homes were like in the first century. It can be hard to wrap your mind around how all of the measurements and descriptions looked like in everyday life. This book gives a […]
A Deadly Assumption That is Hindering the Church
There is an assumption many churches make that will not turn out well in the end. What is it? Assuming you start a church and its “one and done.” It is that the church is an end unto itself rather than the perpetual place where new things are born. This is true of home churches […]