Household Evangelism: Evangelism and Feasting

A MUST READ FOR ALL CHRISTIANS:)

STEVE PIXLER

NOTE: This is a lesson that I wrote for our church several years ago when teaching on household evangelism. I came across this today while looking back through old notes and thought it might be helpful again. –S.P.

It is interesting to consider how eating together—feasting—was related to evangelism in the early church. First century believers broke bread in formal worship (“breaking of the bread”—Acts 2:42), but they also broke bread from house to house (Acts 2:46). It seems rather certain that this “house-to-house” practice was not an early form of our modern canvassing. Eating meals from house to house meant that they fellowshipped from household to household, from family to family, witnessing in the intimate setting of friends and family about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the power of the gospel. It seems that eating meals together were a central part of early church evangelism. This underlies the theme I have emphasized a…

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