If you are interested in joining our POSSIBLE House Church please send us an e-mail with your name and phone number so we can call you in person. We don't intend on having ritual services, or typical organized services, but to do what the Holy Spirit tells one of us what we should do. This concept and hundreds of others have been tried (this is true). We are only doing what the early Church did with fellowship and scripture. No wackos here - well maybe a couple of crazy people for JESUS, but, other than Dirk & Terry those few we have are fairly normal, well, as normal as Christians can be that is. Send us an e-mail kept in strictest confidence with your name and number to Pastor Terry Fleming so press here! This is once again a house church idea for Comox Valley and Campbell River residents ONLY or if you're visiting.

 

 

 

 

            

 

The Christian Church during the first several hundred years after the life of Christ. As the disciples and the other early apostles moved out from Jerusalem after Pentecost and spread the gospel, the center of Christianity moved westward from Jerusalem to southern Europe, particularly Rome. As the gospel spread, heresies quickly arose, and many of the New Testament epistles were written to counter various false teachings. Some key figures in the early church, besides the disciples and Paul, are Clement, Justin Martyr, Origen, Constantine the Great, Athanasius, John Chrysostom, and Augustine of Hippo.

Many thousands have left regular big church buildings and are going back to the original Home Churches. Here are some for real quotes.

These men who were traveling with Paul represented churches that Paul had started in Asia. Each man was carrying an offering from his home church to be given to the believers in Jerusalem.

Romans 16:5
Likewise greet the church that is in their house—This statement is important to our understanding the structure of the early church. Other scriptures speak of there being a “church” (ecclesia)—which could also be rendered “assembly,” or “meeting”) in a house. The word Church means "meeting place" "Cathedral", "House of worship", "Place of worship", "ecclesiastical", "building where Christians worship"etc. and there are more meanings similar.

1 Corinthians 16:19
The churches here in the province of Asia greet you heartily in the Lord, along with Aquila and Priscilla and all the others who gather in their home for church meetings.

Acts 2:46
The early Christians in Jerusalem habitually met at an outer court of the temple called Solomon’s porch (see 3:11; 5:12). As Jews who had become Christians, they still kept their attachment to the traditions of Judaism. It would take some time before the Christian church completely broke away from Judaism. In fact, throughout Acts Christians were considered a sect of Judaism (see 24:5). breaking bread from house to house In addition to the larger meetings at the temple, the early believers met in homes for more intimate and informal fellowship. Many early churches began in homes.

 

 

A couple of decades before the W.W.J.D. (“What Would Jesus Do?”) phenomenon hit the Christian bookstores, you used to see people wearing pins that read “PBPGIFWMY.” If anyone was curious enough to ask, the wearer would explain that it stood for, “Please be patient. God isn’t finished with me yet.” Maybe it’s time to print PBPGIFWMY on large banners and post the reminder prominently in every church. What started as a selfless and coherent body that endured the worst of persecution and accomplished the best of results for their Lord has become a plethora of denominations and congregations that seem to present little if any unity from the viewpoint of the non-believing world. As you’ve probably noticed while going through this (and if you’re still reading, give yourself a pat on the back), it’s not always easy to define exactly “what Christians believe.” If we look at history one way, it doesn’t seem that the church has done much right since the first century. As persecution drove believers away from the safety and security of Jerusalem, the church went from being a single “universal” church into a vast variety of names, denominations, worship styles, and more. What one group of believers believed weren’t necessarily the same beliefs that other believers believed.