1. Three types of Gathering
Something is missing
Three types of Gathering

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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