What If We Did Church Differently?

I see the house church rising up again

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With COVID-19 hitting the world, people of every religion are forced to rethink their services. For smaller churches, maybe it hasn’t been a problem, but for our church where we live who could have thousands of people come through the doors on any given weekend, it presents challenges.

Many churches have adapted to the online church.

There are children’s services on YouTube, regular service that is live-streamed, and midweek videos for the smaller parts of the church. While the online space has been good, the church needs to start thinking about the future.

Churches everywhere will be forced to ask:

What happens when this is all over?

Will we go back to church as it was? Filling the pews full of people. Children’s Ministries sharing Jesus with the little ones. And breakout ministries meeting in the church during the week.

Or will we start to see something else happen? Will we see more small group style house churches popping up. Groups meeting in homes once per week, and then once a month in a larger gathering that is less focused on “feeding the people.”