tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695060.post817098423625376718..comments2023-05-26T14:36:58.513+01:00Comments on The blog of the Ancient Mariner: So we're asking the questionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695060.post-34876464518689316772016-03-07T19:44:42.037+00:002016-03-07T19:44:42.037+00:00I've only ever seen cell churches used to supp...I've only ever seen cell churches used to support a single big congregation, so that although there was a focus on the cell as a place of moving people forward & growing the church, overall the emphasis was to build a single large congregation. To me, this is more like raising the level of importance of house groups to make them effectively small churches that are part of a larger whole. <br /><br />Maybe.<br /><br />I wonder if, sometimes, we worry far too much about structures and not anything like enough about whether God is obviously at work or not.Toni Ertlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00191085694671148065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695060.post-82453533060295446472016-03-07T12:11:28.769+00:002016-03-07T12:11:28.769+00:00Isn't that the cell church hypothesis? The sma...Isn't that the cell church hypothesis? The small, home-based group becomes the definining structure - the cell - while there are larger gatherings on a fairly regular basis to maintain the context of a wider community. Indeed, aren't many 'community churches' the result of 'house churches' from the 70s and 80s which grew from 'new' ways of doing church and ended up in a rather recognisable end result?Wulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14122559314286527166noreply@blogger.com