Early Church Practices We Live Out Today

 A fresh breath of theological insight to me when I was desperately seeking God with the prayer, “Lord, there has to be more about your church. Help me discover it.”   —Reuben P., pastor, India

Your small church can have a big impact using early church practice.

Every New Testament church letter was written to an illegal congregation that met secretly in a private home, so the ecclesiology presented in the epistles was designed for effective ministry in smaller churches. Click here to listen to a 20-mintue overview. 

• The Lord’s Supper then was different from the Lord’s Supper now. Click here to learn more.

• Church meetings in the first century were nothing like twenty-first century church meetings. Click here to learn more.

• Teaching methods in the early church would be shocking to the contemporary church. Click here to learn more.

• Decision making in New Testament Church was nothing like what goes on in the modern church. Click here to learn more.

• The size of congregations in apostolic times was much smaller than in the post-apostolic age. Click here to learn more.

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Small churches that have adopted Jesus’ approach are more organic than organized, more like a family than a business, more relational than programed, more informal more than formal, focus more on one another than any one leader, and prefer authenticity over the expertise.