Simple Church Network

 

I’m looking for links to, or contact info for simple churches, house churches, or ogranic faith communities in and around Seattle. If you are part of one or know of one could you please comment on this blog entry or email me?

Peace, dwight

Some call them house churches. Some call them organic churches. Some call them simple churches. We prefer to just call them churches. They are rapidly multiplying, simple communities of believers, meeting in homes, offices, campuses, wherever God is moving. This is the pattern common to many parts of the globe, and is now becoming more and more common in the U.S. as well.

Where are two or more are gathered in His name, there is church.

Where “DNA” is present among people, there is church.

 

“D” stands for Divine Truth (loving God/Jesus)
“N” stands for Nurturing Relationships (loving one another deeply)
“A” stands for Apostolic Mission (being on Jesus’ mission to the world)

Buildings, programs, and professional clergy are not essential elements of a church.

By ’simple church’, we mean a way of doing and being church that is so simple that any believer would respond by saying, “I could do that!”

By ’simple church’, we mean the kind of church that is described in the New Testament. Not constrained by structure but by the needs of the extended family, and a desire to extend the Kingdom of God.

By ’simple church’, we mean a church that listens to God, follows His leading and obeys His commands.

By ’simple church’, we mean spiritual parents raising spiritual sons and daughters to establish their own families.

House Church

House Church is a term sometimes used in the way we use the term Simple Church. It can be confusing in that:

 

A Simple Church may or may not meet in a house (it can meet anywhere).

Church Planting Movements

Church Planting Movements occur when simple churches multiply rapidly.

This is a Very Old “New” Idea

Churches in the New Testament were most often small gatherings that met in homes.

Welcome to a webiste dedicated to linking and resourcing simple churches (house churches) in Western Washington. The site has just lanched and will be adding features and links to websites and email addresses to simple churches in and around Seattle.

This site is being developed by Dr. Dwight J. Friesen, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Mars Hill Graduate School in Belltown. Please email Dwight with questions, links or simple church resources that you would like to share.