In less than 5 years, it has grown into the largest church in the area. Rick Rowe says it was done by using a very simple concept. 4 1/2 years ago a small group of believers decided to do church ...

Why I’m not jumping on the new bandwagon. Several weeks ago, I attended a conference based on the book Simple Church by Eric Geiger and Thom Rainer (Broadman and Holman, 2006). More than 400 ministry ...

What defines a biblical church? I’ve been asked that question so many times, I thought I’d just answer it in print. Actually, it’s pretty simple. Indeed, as Thom Rainer wrote in his book with the ...

Simple Church calls churches to focus on making disciples. Amid “an epidemic of fast-food spirituality” in today’s churches, Rainer and Geiger argue for pared-down simplicity: “Big and expanding menus ...

Jordan Poole is pastor of Hope Church Michael W. Pannell Special to The Sun News “We’re really a pretty simple church and we like to keep things simple,” said Jordan Poole, pastor of Hope Church, ...

(RNS) This weekend, Jeanne O’Hair, her friends and family will raise their voices in Easter hymns “as the spirit leads us,” she says, in her “house church” — O’Hair’s living room in Brea, Calif. In a ...

“Welcome, everyone, to Simple Church!” Pastor Zach Kerzee shouts into the camera, guitar strapped across his chest. Kerzee sits at a dinner table set with steaming mugs of tea, glasses of grape juice, ...

Mar. 11—OXFORD — College Hill Presbyterian Church looks like a set piece from a movie. William Faulkner is thought to have been so struck by its gravitas that he used it as a setting in one of his ...