B. Welcome to The Household of Faith!

The Household of Faith Program is a new approach to church growth. It is adapted from the extended household model used by Christians in the early centuries until 313 AD when Christianity was officially recognized and accepted in the Roman Empire. This approach was recovered and used successfully by John Wesley and the Methodists with cottage meetings during the Methodist Revival. It can be equally successful today using modern media.

Extension of the Local Church

The Household of Faith is an extension of the local church that trains and nourishes Christians. It is mandated to divide and double its membership every two years. Hence, it is a model of relational evangelism. The Household of Faith is the only evangelism program that guarantees success when it is diligently used by a church. It brings growth where it really counts with "core" members. It does not steal people from other churches but invigorates your own fringe people. It's success does not depend upon enthusiastic charismatic leadership but growth is built right in to the system.

Expect Growth

Churches can expect to experience growth of between 16% and 32% per annum in core membership, that is regular attending, committed workers and this can continue indefinitely year after year! These figures are based on the reasonable expectation of a congregation of 100 setting up between 4 and 8 Households of Faith. The same success rates would apply to smaller or larger congregations, particularly in mainline denominations which tend to have larger fringe groups.

Truly Global

The Household of Faith is truly Global. It may be used by any English-speaking group anywhere in the World which has computer access to The Internet. The Household of Faith is equally successful with all age groups. Its home based informal format will be welcomed by the Elders in our churches but will be particularly appealing to the Baby Boom, X and Y Generations, who are largely missed by our present church structures. The Household of Faith is not limited in any way by denominational differences. It may be applied equally well with teaching and liturgies from different churches, whether evangelical, high church, charismatic, liberal, low or middle church.

Completely Without Cost

The Household of Faith comes free on the internet and does not need to be purchased in printed, video, CD, VCR or any other format. It does not require expensive seminars to be attended by participants. If a problem or question arises a simple email enquiry or telephone call while at the computer will suffice. We ask only the courtesy that you register by email so that we can partner together sharing ideas and suggestions and that notification may be given of new materials etc.

There are three sections to this program....

"You are fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household." Ephesians 2.19

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