Home Groups

Where Faith, Community, and Mission gain traction in the everyday

What Is a Home Group?

In Acts 20:20, we see that the church was meeting in larger "public" spaces and "from house to house." We believe that this large-small dynamic is critical to the health of the church and individual. If we are to see and show Christ rightly (i.e. with "20/20" vision), we must be meeting in both large gatherings and small groups. The largest gathering we have is the Sunday Service. And our standard small group is the Home Group. We define Home Groups as follows . . .

Home Groups are the heartbeat of our church. They are the place where our values of Faith, Community, and Mission gain traction in the everyday. They are small, typically intergenerational, groups that meet regularly to break bread, seek God in his Word, share hearts and lives, and pursue avenues of service and witness in the surrounding neighborhood and city.

Growing Faith

Home Groups give people a chance to digest, question, meditate on, and personalize the word of God. Opportunity is given for the church to act as Bereans and examine the Scriptures for themselves (Acts 17:11).

Building Community

Home Groups provide the primary context in which the church can live out the "one-anothering" spoken of in the New Testament (i.e. Rom. 12:9-18). Here is where we can truly get to know and love other saints and where we can be truly known and loved ourselves.

Engaging Mission

Home Groups should serve as "missional communities," strategically located in neighborhoods, not to be dams of God's grace, but estuaries—places where the ocean of God's love meets the parched riverbeds of this world. Home Groups are the arms of the church, reaching into the neighborhoods. They can also serve as wonderful places to raise up young leaders and as potential seedbeds for future church plants.