I’m enjoying watching Paul Merton’s travels around China. In this week’s episode, it was fascinating to see him visit an underground Chinese “house church”.

The house was packed with scores of people jammed into every room with the service relayed by video from the main meeting room.

hmmm, don’t they realise that they’re doing “cell” all wrong? Too many people and you can’t build authentic community you know! You have to divide multiply as soon as you get to ten people in the group.

They might be risking prison to meet (the pastor had spent over twenty years in prison), but they’re obviously still “transitioning” to a full cell church model.

Maybe we can find a way to share our Western cell church strategies, systems and models so that they can become a vibrant, committed, growing, New Testament church like us.