The competing model, the synagogue. The Family Model of the Church had a competing, organisational model, the synagogue. By adopting the synagogue model, the early church gave Satan a limited victory; opening the door to internal conflict and division that would cause church growth to grind to a crawl. By the end of the first...
The Family Model in the Gospels and Acts. Jesus was raised in a Family. The first fact presented in the New Testament is that Jesus was born and raised in a humble, Jewish family. Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king. (Matthew 2:1) He went to Nazareth with...
The Church has always been a Family. In this Bible study I aim to show that the Church has always been a Family; that Family has always been the basic ‘building block’ of God’s Church. It mustn’t surprise us that the family, both natural and spiritual, is the primary target of the spiritual forces of...