Steve Atkerson with us this Sunday!

We are delighted to have Steve Atkerson (and family?) with us this Sunday, March 18. Steve will be teaching the Word during our ministry time.




Steve lives in north Georgia with his wife, Sandra, and their three home-schooled children.

Steve graduated from Georgia Tech and worked in industrial electronics before heading off to seminary. After receiving a Master of Divinity degree from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, served on the pastoral staff of a Southern Baptist Church. After seven years in the traditional pastorate, he resigned to begin working with churches that desire to follow apostolic traditions in their church practice. He travels and teaches as the Lord opens doors of opportunity.

Steve is an elder at the home church he helped start in 1990, is president of the New Testament Restoration Fellowship, edited Toward A House Church Theology, is author of both The Practice of the Early Church: A Theological Workbook and The Equipping Manual, and is editor of and a contributing author to Ekklesia: To The Roots of Biblical House Church Life.

Steve has spent many years studying and teaching the New Testament pattern for the church. So bring all those questions you've been saving up about church life, worship, ministry, and leadership!

We may not agree with Steve on every detail, but we do emphatically agree that the New Testament pattern for churches is not merely descriptive, but prescriptive. That is, it is meant not to be studied as a curiosity but to be followed by churches in every time and locale. We also agree that the normal way of "doing church" in America has strayed a long ways from the simplicity and beauty of the scriptural pattern.

As of now (though this could change), Steve is planning to teach on the subject of the Lord's Supper. Prepare to have your views about this vital ordinance challenged and sharpened.