kev Rains - Next Steps

Kevin Rains says "A shift for us came when we began to view our house churches as churches; sometimes we even drop the ?house? and just call them churches. Our standard way of building a house church is this: a core group gathers. Around that core others are drawn in. Out of that a leadership team develops. Some kind of covenanting takes place as the group as a whole eventually develops a theme they are ?about??all the while recognizing that they are a church. They can?t just be a Bible study, or a hangout for 20-somethings. They have to be a fully-functioning church."