“Little fellowships within each local church that met at people’s homes on Sunday afternoons or in the evening. People shared their personal religious experiences, held informal Bible studies, sang hymns, and prayed about each other’s needs.”
(quoted from Worship: Reformed according to Scripture, by Hughes Oliphant Old, pg. 104)
Sound familiar? Interesting that many evangelical churches in the last 50 years have “discovered” the benefits of small group ministry. The quote above is a description of what was taking place within the German Pietist movement in the sixteen hundreds!
Nothing new under the sun…
