Cafe church

Cafe Church is a Christian church model is one that can be associated with alternative worship and the emerging church movements, which seeks to find new forms and approaches to existing as a church in the 21st century. These churches are often heavily focused on relationship aspects of Christian fellowship and outreach to their local community, and consequently, a Café approach is often considered appropriate. Seeker friendly model but can also incorporate radical levels of personal discipleship and life commitment for followers of Jesus of Nazareth.

There are a number of churches around the world that have developed churches under this type of model. Some extend it to maintaining a permanent coffee shop and offering to their local community a high quality array of coffee and sandwich offerings, where the members of the fellowship meet and oftentimes volunteer their time to support the enterprise. While other churches simply utilise it as a way of facilitating variation within their normal service structure and within the confines of their building, for example serving coffee throughout the service in a predesigned area.

The cafe church is organically based idea to plant churches that are centered around the idea of making the message of Christ's love relevant to the needs of the local community in which it seeks to serve. Cafe Churches often reflect an underlying theology and philosophy. Depending on the leadership of any cafe church model most leaders will have a clear doctrinal perspective, while others, might be more open-minded and comfortable with members and visitors asking questions of speaker. The goal of cafe church endeavors is to impact their local community with a message of God's love and the transforming power of Christ's love.

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Substance Church exemplifies one such example.