How to Meet in Homes

by Gene Edwards

Overview

Warning: Do not read this book if you enjoy Sunday morning church services! This book is for those believers, be they Catholic, Protestant, Conservatives, Fundamentalists, or Pentecostal/Charismatics who want to utterly abandon it all, from top to bottom, and start over in a way that is a revolutionary, radical departure from all present-day church practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780940232532
Publisher:	Seedsowers, The
Publication date:	08/28/2002
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Gene Edwards is a biblical scholar with the pen of a poet, a master storyteller who causes scriptural truth to become an adventure into revelation, and in doing so he brings you into the deepest truths of Christ. All across the world his books are read for their insight into Christ, and they leave the reader spellbound in the presence of so glorious a Lord.Gene grew up in the East Texas oil fields and entered college at the age of 15. He graduated from East Texas State University at 18 with a bachelor's degree in English history and received his M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Gene is part of the house-church movement, and has spent much of his life traveling extensively to aid Christians as they begin meeting in homes rather than in church buildings. Gene and his wife, Helen, reside in Jacksonville, Florida, and have two grown children.

Table of Contents

Part I	How the Church is Now
	Prologue	xv
1.	The Tragedy	3
2.	The Sunday Morning Disaster	7
3.	Four Awful Ways to Meet	11
4.	It Will Take a Revolution	25
Part II	How the Church Used to be
5.	Meeting, First-Century Style	33
6.	The Church in Antioch	45
7.	Four Gentile Churches in Galatia	49
8.	The Foolishness of Church Planters	63
9.	All the Churches went Two Years without Help	65
10.	You Call This Help?	71
11.	How the Churches in Greece Met	79
12.	The Greek Church that Over-Functioned ... a Little!	83
13.	Ephesus, More Surprises about Meetings and Churches	91
14.	Shattering the Mindset	99
15.	Because the Sunday Morning Church Service Has Been around for 500 Years, Is That the Way God Ordained Meetings to Be?	105
16.	Returning to the Home Is But a Starting Place	111
17.	Toward an Organic Meeting and an Organic Church	119
Part III	Starting All Over, Totally New, From the Ground Up
18.	Step One	125
19.	Steps Two and Three	131