城市家庭基督教会的组织过程探究——以B市高校园区为例

The Research on the New Type of the Urban Home Church in City B:The case study of university student Christians

本研究以新型城市家庭基督教会和校园团契为调查对象,从其形成和发展过程来考察B市高校园区基督教群体发展的特征。B市的新型城市家庭教会的形成与发展有一个共同的特点,即某个皈信基督教的人在家里组织查经班或在校园里组织校园团契,随着规模由小到大,逐步形成初具规模的教会。另一种情况是,因种种原因从某个教会脱离出来的信徒,另起炉灶,重新组织家庭聚会点或查经班,然后逐步将其发展为教会。文章探讨了这些家庭教会发展信徒的条件和途径,以及其依托的宗教组织和运作机制,认为人际关系网络是其中的关键因素。

This paper studies the developmental characteristics of university Christian groups in city B through the study on the process of establishment and development of a new type of house churches and Christian fellowships.It finds that these urban home churches share one common characteristic:they are initiated by one particular person.One possibility is that the Christian organized bible study groups at home or college campus.And gradually,these groups developed to bigger scale churches.Another possibility is that a Christian who left the church for some reasons organizes a home church or fellowship,and develops the home church into larger church.This article discusses the mechanisms of how these house churches recruit their followers and indicates that interpersonal relationship plays a key role in these recruiting channels.