Why Are House and Organic Churches Important?
The Barna research corresponds to a new book authored by global house church expert Wolfgang Simson, a German who has been engaged in tracking the organic church world for more than two decades. Simson’s new book, entitled The House Church Book, provides a simple but compelling discussion about why house churches are valuable entities in the kingdom of God, and some of the insights he has gleaned over the years about how they work best. A persuasive advocate for house churches, Simson wrote that “church as we know it is preventing church as God wants it,” discussing the attributes of the New Testament church and how it differs so dramatically from today’s churches. “The New Testament church was made up of small groups, typically between ten and fifteen people. It grew, but not by forming big congregations of three hundred people… Instead it multiplied ‘sideways,’ dividing like organic cells once these groups reached about fifteen or twenty people. This then made it possible for all Chr
