Church in Homes

od released a prophetic Word that stated, “I the Lord am going to release Revivals in homes. The reason I am touching homes is because the Church has set a structure blockage of religion. Since the birth of Jesus’ primitive church, people gathering in homes has really been more the norm than the exception in most of the world. For the first three hundred years this was clearly the most accepted modality for the gathering of the people of God. And for centuries to come, in many cultures believers without access to funds, and lacking the drive to build monuments, basically met wherever they could in some of the most convenient places to edify each other, and worship God.

It is basically in the Western World, and the nations we have influenced that house churches have become more or less the weaker option to the “real” church with its own facilities holding services each weekend. In many communities “housechurching” is still labeled as the transitional mode for the gatherings of God’s people until they are finally able to rent, lease, or purchase their own facilities and “go public” as a real church.

In 310 AD when Constantine converted, he actually converted “Daily Christians” into “Sunday Christians” by declaring Sunday a holiday. He built the first Cathedral, and soon a spate of cathedral building took place in Europe which included the domination of a professional priesthood, resulting in some places with the demise of the house church movement.

Still in many denominational arenas the idea of a “smaller” group has a stigma attached to it as being something “less than.” While waiting for the “big,” the “growing” and the “successful church.”

Over a decade ago, back in the last millennium, we began to hear the predictions that even in the Western Church, the mechanics, the mode and the many forms of the church would be changing.

Christian Schwartz,