Introduction

The book Global House movement written by Rad Zdero ph.D- the co-founder of
house church Canada has great importance to every mentors has a mentees, and church
planter this book provides, thoughtful, balanced and yet revolutionary guide for those
currently involved in house churches as they seek to love out New testament style
Christianity and this book also as a double training manual for current and potential
house church leaders.
As a leader of the church, it so important to have the desire in reaching the nation
for Christ and reaching every lost soul and preach the Gospel of salvation to everyone
because this is the Great commission of the Jesus Christ to us. “Go ye therefore and teach
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo, I
am with you always even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matthew 28:19-20). And if
you want to involve to advancement of the kingdom you should preach the Gospel first to
your family and friends and your municipality with an approach to church life and church
planting that is biblical, simple natural, inexpensive, duplicatable, intimate and is a
breeding ground for new leaders or new church planter.
This book is very essential tool to help every church planter to do the call of God
and to fulfill the will of God. The Global House movement offers us practical and
strategic step to help us get involved in changing the world For Christ staring right in
your family. As a follower of Christ this is the ordinance of Jesus Christ to everyone
during His ascension to the Heaven. In the book of Acts 1:8 “But you shall receive
power, after the Holy Spirit is come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the Earth.”
Empowering of the Holy Spirit is important to every follower of Christ before stepping
forward in the ministry we need to wait to the empowering of the Holy Spirit because He
led us to do the supernatural moves from God.

Statement of the Problem

1. What visions are stated in the book pertaining to house church?
2. What are the personal experiences of the author in his journey towards house
church?
3. What are the biblical foundations of the church in the first century style?
 4. How the house church movements differ from then and now in its historical
perspectives?
5. What are the 10 declarations of the radical church?
6. What are the things to consider in getting house churches?

Terminologies

Church- Greek word ‘ekklesia’ the called-out ones, called out from this rotten world to
join into the family of God and to manifest the Glory of God and to execute the wonders
and the mystery of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Body

Vision
“where there is no vision, the people perish, but he that keepeth the, happy is he.”
(Proverbs 29:18) As a church planter we should have a vision from God, because
ministry without vision is perish. And without direction is vanity. As a minister of God,
we always rely to what the Lord wants to do in our ministry not because of wrong
motives but only for the Glory of God and for the advancement of His kingdom.
Especially to my ministry that God entrusted to me in Calbiga I am looking forward that
calbiga someday is the place of Christian municipality I believe it is not easy, I cannot do
this in my own strength but only to the grace of the Lord and I believe nothing is
impossible to Him. I always keep the Vision I have from the Lord. I believe that God
called me to the greater responsibilities to church planting churches to all the barangay of
Calbiga. - I envision a transformed and renew church that will be empowered to preach
the word, be ready in season and out of season. Evangelize every people in every
Barangay and make disciples to plant churches.
Recapturing the lost vision
The nature of the Church
“For where two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them.” (Matthew 18:20) this is the power spoken word of Jesus Christ this verse for
seeing that He is the omnipresent God, He is always present once we gather for him name
sake, He always willing to provides in our need, especially in our ministry. The sized of
the church is a rabbit church compose in 3-12 of numbers of people in the Bible study
and 8 bible study handling of church planter this called the rabbit church in the Dynamic
Church Planting International.
These church planting are not led or hosted by traditional clergy and practices of
this world, but by average folks who have a deepening love for Christ and other people.
They have discovered that the secret of life is to love God and others and to become more
like Jesus and to live a life like Jesus lived in these worlds. These folks simply want to
rediscover the power and person of Jesus in community and as they engaged in any
activities.
like evangelism, children ministry, feeding program, house to house evangelism and in
mission, as his early followers did.
The mission of the Church
A mission is a transformed and renew church that will be empowered to preach the word,
be ready in season and out of season. Evangelize every people in every Barangay and
make disciples to plant churches.
So powerful have people’s experiences with each other and Jesus been, that many
neighbors, co-workers, family member, and friends, who may not even believe in God
and may be suspicious of church, are chomping at the bit to get in on the action. These
churches planting continually grow and become so big that they multiply themselves into
other places that are strategically placed in new neighborhoods, conducting feeding
program, and conducting to every barangay Moral transformation, and film showing.
 Every leader of these groups empowers members with training through
discipleship training, prayers emphasizing a few essential rather than a long list of
requirements to reach out to their communities more effectively.
The Boundary of the Church
The unity of the body of Christ is evident to everyone in the way these Christians
work together as a single motivation and for the Glory of God alone. And we do not
allow denominational boundaries or traditions to prevent partnering together as one great
church because it is unbiblical. But to fellowship together through prayer and worship in
the Church planting and teaching them who Jesus is and what He has done on the cross.
The expansion of the Church
as mentor who has a mentee emerge and are released to follow their calling to start
new multiplying Churches and move according to the movement of God which will touch
many generations to come. This is part of an emerging reformation of the church in their
generation that will transform all generations through the God’s grace and only Jesus
Christ.
“Go therefore and make disciple of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things that I have
commanded you lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age Amen.” (Matthew
28:19-20) this is the ordinance of the Lord to every Churches, to reach every lost soul and
brings glad tidings to all nation until the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Traditional Churches
The global house movements having traditional churches, they gather in the house
having a home prayer or bible study group is merely an optional appendage. These home
groups usually involve only people who are members of the mother congregation and are
not outreach focused.
I believe every different place having a tradition or culture but it so imperative to
know every minister of God our culture should be a kingdom culture that leads us to see
the miraculous work of God in our ministry, signs and wonder always fallows once the
kingdom culture will be establish to our ministry. therefore, the word of God should be
the foundation of every culture and tradition of every churches.
Cell churches or light group
Cell group or light groups are typically outreach focused and normally will grow
within a year to the point of multiplying into many groups. In cell churches, there is an
equal emphasis on home cell group meetings or small group.
 As a church planter it is imperative to know that we are bearing the light of Jesus
Christ to every household of every barangay we do this cell group or Light groups to
every household to transform their life into a godly life and to have intimate relationship
to Jesus Christ.
New testament-style house churches
This group of people is different from both congregations which have a building,
professional clergy, expensive program, and the main Sunday morning service and cell
churches or light group dotting our western landscape. House churches are an attempt to
get back to the form and function of apostolic Christianity. Stated positively, they are
fully functioning churches in themselves, with the freedom to partake of the Lord’s
supper, baptize, bury, exercise disciplined and chart their own course. They are
volunteered and meet in house-sized groups for participatory and interactive meetings
involving prayer and worship, bible study and discussion. Mentoring and outreach, as
well as food and fun. Because they are typically autonomous, they more easily adapt to
persecution, growth, and change, but are also more vulnerable to bad theology and
behavior. So, house churches or light group become part of peer networks for health and
growth, like spider web of interlocking strands. Consequently, house churches or light
group can be explained by the principle that ‘church is small group.’

This present generation it is important that every church go back to what the Bible
says and should be pattern of every church of Jesus Christ because the growth of every
believer only comes by the Lord. I believe the new testament-style house churches are
effective in our generation today because so many ways of ministering people can easily
to reach and to provides their spiritual needs by sharing and preaching the Word of Jesus
Christ to them. Like visitation to theme with prayer and having a house-to-house
evangelism this is our strategy nowadays that I can see that it is very effective to
everyone who desire church planting churches.
Personal experiences
“God who at sundry times and in divers manner spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophet, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son , whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.”(Hebrews 1:1-2) I believe
that we have a personal encounter to the Lord Jesus Christ because He is omnipresent
God who revealed to everyone, therefore, He is the God who revealed himself even in
unrighteous or righteous God who not choosing, He is pair God.

Encountering Christ and his people

 The author was born in Canada in 1969 and raised in a nominal Christian
environment in the Serbian orthodox Church and his immigrant parents, though, instilled
in him a belief in God, prayer, and personal moral responsibility. But God was still just
an indefinite idea.
When He was fifteen his younger sister brought home a pocket new testament that
she got a school from the Gideon Bible society. Over the next year as he read about the
life, teaching, death, resurrection of Christ, he decided to surrender the rest of his life to
following the Lord Jesus Christ.
I believe that every believer of Christ having a personal encounter to the Lord
Jesus Christ. Therefore, believer should share their experience to the Lord to other
because this is very essential to win every lost soul through our personal encounter to the
Lord. Especially always having changed of life when we encounter the Lord Jesus Christ
and who He is.

Early university years

In 1987, He enrolled at McMaster university in Hamilton, Canada he immediately
got plugged in with the campus crusade for Christ (CCC) group where he was challenged
to grow in his personal prayer life and in personal evangelism. The CCC staff guy, Dave,
intentionally disciple him over the next two years in one -on -one and small group
context, imparting to him a vision for how God could use his life for something bigger,
he considers him one of his three spiritual fathers. At the same time, he was building an
evangelistic small group on the side with a few other classmates, some Christian, some
not.

Biblical foundations church, first-century style

For us many of us today, the word ‘church’ elicits image of a special man running
a special service in a special building on a special day for special fee or it might recall
things like board, denominations, organization, or those who serve as full-time clergy.
Because this pattern has existed for the past 1700 years within most Christian tradition, it
may come as a shock to find out that Christians in the first century gathered, organized,
and thought of themselves in a very different way. They would have found what is
considered church today, especially as it appears in the west, quite foreign.
How did the early church Christian view themselves?
the first issue that must be addressed is how the early Christian community
understood itself in relation to its Lord and the world around it. Although not an
exhaustive list by any means, the following are some of the key ideas found in the new
testament that permeated the mindset of the first Christian that, it turns, determined how
they particularly organized themselves and functioned. In other words, their belief
determined their behavior, their function determined their form, their mandate determined
their method let us no turn to some of the more significant ways they described and
understood themselves.
The assembly
In the new testament is that described by the Greek word ‘ekklesia’, appearing 114
times this word, meaning ‘assembly’ or ‘meeting’, is the word translated as ‘church’ the
three main uses of church in the new testament are about believers gathering in someone
homes, the regional church, and the universal church. The word is never used about a
special building, a religious ceremony, or a class of paid professional leaders. This would
have been incomprehensible to the early Jesus movements. This particularly word brings
out the importance of gathering, assembling, or meeting together as believers of Jesus
Christ.
The body of Christ
Another powerful visual that apostle Paul invoked several times is that of the
Church as Christ body.” Ephesians 5:23” this implies a living, organic and mutually
dependent relationship between two. Just as a headless body is lifeless and cannot
function, so too is a head useless on its own unless it has a body that will do its bidding.
Apostle Paul emphasize that as Christ gives direction to his Body. In the Book of
Colossians apostle Paul invoked several times Christ is the Head of the Church.
I believe that the Church, the called-out ones, called out from this rotten world to
join into the family of God and to manifest the Glory of God and to execute the wonders
and the mystery of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The church must be the number
one example of good character both in communicational and behavioral, church must rise
and not be silence in preaching the good news to it community showing who God they
serve, we served the living God who can do all things.
The church must be the number one who stand alongside with government and support its
leader elected to either the church does not like the person in authority, the church must
not partiality when it comes to reaching out people, in the government the church must be
there behind the leader enforcing them to push them to be a good leader and to lead its
constituent, the must does not demand its need rather complement.
The function of the church is to edify and educate concerning the will of God, leading
people back to God and to equip every individual in battling unrighteousness and
corruptness.
The work of the church to preach the Gospel to every creature “Go ye therefore and teach
all nations” (Matthew 28-19-20) and to expound the plan of salvation as taught in the
scripture. Christ has made salvation possible by providing it, the church must make it
actual proclaiming it.
Where did the early church meet?
Private from house to house
the gospel report that homes among other places were a natural part of Jesus ‘life
and ministry. Christ was worshipped as a baby in a house, he healed peter’s mother-in-
law at home, the Last suffer was held in a house, and Jesus preached to people crowded
into homes. Christ also trained his disciples during a hands-on assignment by sending
them out in pairs to preach from village. They were instructed to find a man of peace in
each village that was responsive to their message and build a spiritual base of operations
from that home.
As a minister of God, we need to find a man of peace to every villages because
God had a prepared for everyone of peace of man to be part of expansion kingdom of the
Lord.
Practical consideration Getting house churches going and growing.
in the new testament style house church gatherings are still a fledging
phenomenon in many places, there are uncertainties and practical questions that need to
be addressed. This chapter provides practical advice in getting your house church going
and growing for the reasons for starting house churches. The following based from the
authors experience in starting and leading small groups and house churches, the patterns
established by the apostles for the church, a study of church history and missions, prayer,
and reflection, and intercession with others in the house church movements.