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Vol. 18 No. 1-2 (2020): Strategies for the Mission Fulfillment Journal

Home-Churches in the Early Christianity and Their Implications for Urban Discipleship Today

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.17162/recm.v18i1-2.1536
Submitted
August 30, 2021
Published
2021-08-30

Abstract

Since its beginnings, the Early Christianity was predominantly an urban religion. In contrast, the Seventh-day Adventist Church emerged as a rural religious movement and has struggled to reach large urban centers with its message. The present paper investigates whether the use of one of the evangelistic strategies of early Christianity, the home-churches, can be useful to the current Seventh-day Adventist Church to carry out urban evangelism. With this objective, a documentary analysis is carried out to determine the characteristics and benefits of home-churches in apostolic Christianity. Then the implications of these advantages and their possible applicability in the current urban evangelistic context is developed.