House Church –On Book
of Mark
One goal of Nehemiah Team is to
Open doors and plant churches. We use strategic ways to have opportunities to
share the Gospel to find the person/s of peace, and then have bible study with
them that would lead to the formation of a house church. In the Book of Acts,
we can see how Paul planted churches. He went to a town, preached the Good News
about Jesus Christ and those who believed, he strengthened and encouraged. He
also trained the new leaders he chose to lead the local church then he left and
went to another place and did the same. We also are encouraged to follow Paul’s
example.
In planting a church, I learned that
it is not that complicated. It
shouldn’t be. It is simple and should just
be based on Scriptures. I’ve said so not because I’m an expert but because I
was able to experience that in our team. There were many consecutive nights
that we had our team devotion or house church (and at the same time training
how to handle a house church). Six of us took turns in leading it and the rest
of us were assigned as their coaches. For the message, we used the stories from
the Book of Mark in order. We had done it in order, so that we will not miss
the context and understand the story even more.
Normally, when
we do house church, someone would open in prayer, then with or without a guitar
or any other musical instruments we sing 2-3 worship songs that are familiar to
everyone. After that, we share our thanks giving and praises to the Lord,
review or accountability time then the message and prayer time. I found that it
is not that hard to do house church following this flow especially if there’s
always a time for practice. I like doing it this way, simple as possible so that it would be reproducible.
One great thing I really liked when we are
doing house church is the way the message is delivered. We used participatory
type of bible study. In this way, every one of us participated. Especially, as
everyone answers to the basic questions
such as: What did you like?, How did God speak to you through the story and
how will you apply this in your life? I saw how the Holy Spirit is working in
each one of us. Most of the time maybe, I am too excited to have the house church
to hear more from the Lord! He is really revealing Himself to us and it is so
true that He speaks more than one person can hear. That is why it is really
great if everyone from the church would really have a chance to participate. It’s so simple but it rocks!
- Emely, 23 - NT Luzon
Pray with Emely as she facilitates training and supervises teams for NT in Zamboanga
