Difficult to Plant A Church!

“It’s difficult to ‘plant’ a normal church in today’s culture. You have to ‘ramp-up’ so fast to make it financially viable that it is silly,” Cecil said, alluding to the benefit of the low overhead in house churches.......Although appealing to many because of this back-to-basics approach, house churches share their own host of problems. “House churches can be messy,” White admits. They’re more vulnerable (easy to start, easy to die), and people miss the ‘bigness’ of traditional church.” From Cecil’s perspective, it seems that people’s “expectations of church as a vendor are still strong,” and this can make a member’s transition to a house church difficult. White notes, "House churches can be ingrown like any other church,” but he sees unique outreach possibilities in this model. “House churches have the potential of everyone owning outreach—of everyone reaching out and folding in new people through relationships. It’s hard to get lost in a house church.”

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