Recurrent Thought
 The Christian Faith is relational and grows by introducing the loving Jesus to others

Acts 2: 42-47; 

The gathering of the saints is one of bedrock principle of the New Testament Church. When the Church was shut off from accessing the temple courts, the synagogues and was heavily persecuted, it resorted to meet from house to house. The New Testament Church grew powerfully, yet under difficult circumstances. Despite the persecution and rejection, the Church held on to the principle and demand that the saints needed to regularly gather from time to time. The Church established and followed the practices of sitting under the apostles teaching, fellowship, break bread and pray together (Acts 2:42). They did this from house to house. Throughout the first three hundred years, before church buildings were considered an alternative, the church met in houses. The New Testament Church has always been a house to house people movement. The great ingathering of the saints in the book of Acts was a house to house based (Acts 2:47)

Here are four pillars of a house to house people movement that 

1.    Production of Empowered Leadership 

• Empowered leaders are key in advancing Communities to their visionary destiny 
• House Churches are the engine that produces more empowered leaders.
• Leaders in House Churches lead because they are empowered by God and by their leadership system
• Part of the Process of empowering other leaders is to equip them with knowledge, skills, and 
• Leadership is a God-given responsibility and function that influence people to fulfill goals.
• Empowering Leadership lifts people out of their despair and confusion.
• To lead is to point people where to find solutions. 
• For any community to realize its dreams, it needs to have more people appreciate what it means to lead. Therefore, those who are asked to lead must know that leading means raising the level and ability of influencing.
• Because of many different types of leadership, Christian leaders do well to focus using the God’s template.
• The type of leaders God desire are those that practice Servant Leadership (Service to humanity).
• Leaders that help grow communities are those that empower the community with knowledge, skill, and virtues of righteousness and life. 
• The best way leaders empower others is by demonstrating their lives before others. They modal the way of excellence, integrity and purpose.
• Excellence begets excellence. We reproduce after our Kind
• The More excellently you lead, the more excellence your community becomes

2.    Expression of Passionate Spirituality 

•  A House Church is a place where people are not afraid to express their spirituality
• The belief in God (Yahweh) influenced their worship and their conduct
• Passionate Christianity is the level of zeal in the expression of one’s faith. It’s revealed through spiritual disciplines. Fasting, Praying, Giving, Alms, Gathering
• The way of worship and how they practiced their spirituality was essential in creating a “Spirit-awe” environment.
• A house church is a place without hindrances against the expression of one’s sincerity and spirituality 
• One major responsibility of growing churches is to turn ordinary Christians into passionate and devoted Christ followers.
• Passionate Christianity overflows from the church campus to home, workplace and in the community. Serious Christians are recognized by others.
• Leaders of growing churches learn quickly that intimacy with God is non-negotiable. 
• The church finds revival when in Prayer. Leaders must be leaders of prayer.
• Christians must continually renew intimacy with God. In spiritual maturity we first grow deeper before becoming taller.
• How do you create an atmosphere that ushers in the presence of God? Preparation is essential towards creating a life-changing experience
• An inspiring environment is also an atmosphere for the supernatural interventions of God (Acts 2:43)
•  But, surprisingly it has been shown that many are attracted to such churches because a core of the members is passionate and express their Christianity devotionally.

3.    Communities of Loving Relationships 

•   A strong community is revealed in people building strong inward relationships to one another 
•  Growing churches potentially develop members without names and faces. It is essential to develop a community mindset. But how do you develop community for a group of hundreds or thousands?
• The significant Practices that demand community groupings include: Care, Prayer, Fellowship, Evangelism and Bible Studies. 
• There are different ways of creating community in growing churches: Groups based on commonalities such as skills or professionalism. Sometimes it is built by Cell arranged according to geographical 
• The more the small groups handle challenges of life together, the stronger their cohesion. 
• The church must be seen to promote loving relationships in marriages, in the families and in the society. 
• If you are married, do all you can to heal each other, for you are better and stronger together!
• Loving and strong relationships are linkages for Revival 
• Don’t believe the lie that you are better alone; in fact, in the house of God we are stronger and greater together.

4.    Missional Zeal as an Outflow

• House churches (communities) demonstrate ways of letting others know who they are and the benefits they offer to them.
• Members who are seriously concerned with the continuation of their community influence others to join.
• Serious believers in God are serious and articulate about kingdom advancement through outreach and missions.
• Advancing the Kingdom is contingent on believing that only the power of the Holy Spirit draws people to Christ.
• Mission is to the church as flame and heat are to fire; they are inseparable (Emil Brunner)
• The Church exists for Evangelism and Missions. The New Testament Church grew through the emphasis on evangelism. 
•  Need-Oriented Evangelism is a creative way of proclaiming the gospels with the needs of people in mind, i.e. Presenting Food to the homeless yet reminding them of the need for the greater bread of heaven Jesus Christ.
• Friendship Evangelism is Reaching others through our social contacts.
• Be involved when we plant Churches within and outside Malawi
• Missional zeal is grounded on the understanding that if we don’t birth our kind, we die. If we don’t produce passionate Pentecostal movements, the church is in danger of dying
• Strong House Churches reproduce to perpetuate themselves

Conclusion 
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