Every Home a Church: Spirit Over Flesh

Church buildings are crumbling. Not always physically (though shootings, fires, and chaos are on the rise), but spiritually. Many sanctuaries now have security teams and locked doors. That alone tells us the enemy has invaded the traditional model of “church as a building.”

Here’s the good news: God has always had a backup plan—and it’s His original plan.

The Early Church Was a Home Church

Paul didn’t plant churches in marble cathedrals. He didn’t need million-dollar stages or sound systems. He preached Christ, and believers gathered in homes.

• Romans 16:5 — “Greet also the church in their house.”
• 1 Corinthians 16:19 — “Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.”
• Colossians 4:15 — “Greet Nympha and the church in her house.”
• Philemon 1:2 — “…and to the church in your house.”

The church was never the building. It was always the people. And when the people gathered in homes, the Spirit moved.

Prophetic Confirmation

This isn’t just history—many prophetic voices have echoed the same word in our day:

• Kent Christmas has declared that God will dismantle prideful church structures and regather believers into houses that teach sound doctrine.
• Julie Green has prophesied that after cleansing corrupt leadership, God will fill churches, homes, and lives with His glory.
• Prophecy trackers have noted the theme outright as the “Rise of House Churches.”

The Spirit is saying now what He affirmed in the first century: every home can be a church.

Why This Matters

1. Safety & Resilience: Decentralized home churches are hard to target or shut down.
2. Family Discipleship: Children hear the Word daily, not just once a week.
3. Empowerment: No spectators—“each one has a hymn, a word, a revelation” (1 Corinthians 14:26).
4. Purity of Doctrine: Homes led by Spirit-filled believers pull focus back to Scripture over spectacle.

My House, My Church

This is why I keep the Word playing in my home. Scripture fills the atmosphere. This house isn’t only where we eat and sleep—it’s our sanctuary. It’s the place where my family hears God.

Every lampstand doesn’t have to stand behind a pulpit. It can shine right from your living room.

Final Word

The institution may shake. Buildings may be attacked. But the gates of hell will not prevail against the ekklesia—the called-out people of God (Matthew 16:18).

Revival in this hour will look like Acts: homes full of the Spirit, families teaching their children, neighbors gathering around the Word.

Every home a church. Spirit over flesh. Glory over fear.