Something is missing

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Something is missing
Three types of Gathering
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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

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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

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Biblical Church

• Go to a household oikos Luke 105
• Oikos immediate social network
• Start and grow church within the oikos
• Acts 1615, Acts 1111-18, Mark 519,
• Church grew through oikos networks
• Romans 16 (at least 5 oikos)
• Philippians 422
• Ephesians 425, 1 Corinthians 1426

No mention of going to church!
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So we need ...

• to fill the gap with something that
• takes seriously Jesuss model for mission
• takes seriously the predominant Biblical
  expression of church

What?
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