The early Christian community started as a house church. The record in the book of Acts tells us that ‘They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship… They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts. ‘Some twenty-five years later, the apostle Paul wrote to friends in Rome: ‘Greet also the church that meets in their house.’
During the following decades the Christians continued to meet in homes. In times of persecution they went underground into the catacombs. But after the Roman Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in AD 313, church buildings began to multiply. In
the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Reformation fostered new churches as Protestants built their own places of worship. Yet in every century Christians have met in homes in small groups to supplement their more formal church life.
Others, however, have left the established denominations to form independent house churches. It is this latter development, evident since the mid-twentieth century, that can be called ‘the house church movement’.
The thousands of house churches around the world vary widely in origin and purpose.
In England three main branches have originated independently of each other as offshoots of established denominations. They have no central organization and want to be known simply as local churches. Yet each ‘chain’ of house churches has a distinctive character. They are linked by the itinerant ministry of their leaders, common hymns and …
Restoration Evangelical ministry has again implemented about 7 house church currently running in the community with objective to grow the main church and to help the community to develop small houses churches. This resulted in a positive impact to the community in which hundreds of souls came to Christ while many continued to be freed from all the bondage of the devil. With trained and equipped leader and pastors in the church we constantly strive to help as many people as possible, not only in prayer and deliverance but also in the point of physical needs.
Restoration Church