Why Cell Groups - why now?

           The early church functioned and thrived in a 1st century Roman culture.  They related to and reached the lost around based on the culture that surrounded them.  Since the early church began in Acts, the culture of Western society and the rest of the world has changed dramatically.  Many things have changed within our culture, since the turn of the century.  Over 200 years have passed since the invention of Sunday school in the late 1700's.  Our own Southern Baptist Convention is as old as the Civil War.  Since the revolution of Sunday school, that began in the 1920's and culminated in the late 1960's, America has changed dramatically.

           Times have changed and many tried and true methods of doing church and reaching the lost are becoming less and less effective.  Our culture no longer trusts the Church for answers, it trusts Oprah. Companies that refuse to do business on Sundays are a rarity in America.  For many Americans their lives are too busy.  In today's world many people don't know their own neighbors, they are too busy to eat with their families, and they seek to build up their own kingdom first and not God's.  America is no longer the 'Christian' nation is once was and very few, lost people visit churches any more.  Our culture has changed and we can no longer expect the lost to come to us, we must go to them.

           Cell Groups are an attempt to unlock that simple form of Biblical Community found in the book so Acts.  They are part of an effort to rekindle relationships with believers, with our co-workers, with our neighbors, and with a lost and dying world.  At other churches they have yielded explosive growth.  The largest church in the history of Christianity is structured around cell groups.  Their pastor has utilized cell groups to grow Yoido Full Gospel Church to over 1,000,000 people.

           There are countless lost people moving into Tarrant county and into the area surrounding NFWBC.  Cell Groups are an attempt to bring the redemptive message of the Gospel into their lives, through the testimony and friendship of believers committed to living out the Great Commission - to GO...