Three types of Gathering Something is missing Three types of Gathering

Three types of gathering Cell (up to 12) discipleship making Personal space Community group (up to 50/70) ministry and mission in community Social space Celebration (beyond 70) unity momentum & celebration Public space 2

Community-style group is missing We have lost community style group even when our numbers are that size we treat it like a celebration Community style group is key for Jesus’ strategy used 12 to develop the 72 Community style group is what the Bible calls church in the majority of cases 3

Biblical Church Go to a household “oikos” Luke 10:5 Oikos = immediate social network Start and grow church within the “oikos” Acts 16:15, Acts 11:11-18, Mark 5:19, Church grew through “oikos” networks Romans 16 (at least 5 “oikos”) Philippians 4:22 Ephesians 4:25, 1 Corinthians 14:26 No mention of “going to church!” 4

What? So we need ... to fill the gap with something that takes seriously Jesus’s model for mission takes seriously the predominant Biblical expression of church What? 5