Key Early Church Practices

Every New Testament church letter was written to an illegal congregation that met secretly in a private home. The church practices described in the epistles were thus designed for effective ministry in smaller settings.

The result was that the Church spread like yeast throughout the Roman Empire. Your small church can have a big impact today if you shepherd in the context of tried-and-true early small-church practices.

Churches that have adopted the New Testament approach are more organic than organized, more like a family than a business, smaller rather than larger, more relational than programed, more informal more than formal, focus more on one another than any one leader, and prefer authenticity over the expertise.