3/3rds Comunidades de Descubrimiento
3/3rds Comunidades de Descubrimiento
A simple group Bible discovery format split into three parts: looking back (accountability and celebration), looking up (reading and discussing Scripture together), and looking forward (deciding what to obey and who to tell). It lets any group of believers study Scripture together and multiply without a trained teacher.
📖 Bring a story to every 3/3rds meeting
Our Zúme Story Guide gives you a Bible story — with the full Scripture text — for every tool: breathe in by hearing the Word, breathe out by obeying it and sharing it with others.
Open the Story Guide → Browse the Story Collections → Oral 3/3rds Simple Church flow
The Goal: A House to House Fellowship
Every group we plant is aiming at the same target: not just a Bible discussion, but a true House to House Fellowship — living out what the early church lived out in Acts 2:42-47 and Acts 5:42. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. They met house to house, shared what they had, and the Lord added to their number daily.
Church Health — The 10 Functions
Each month, every group checks itself against the same ten marks of a healthy, functioning church — moving from a dotted circle to a solid one.
— a functioning church!
- Commitment to be a church — a solid line instead of a dotted one
- 🌊 Baptism — water
- 📖 Bible — God’s Word taught and obeyed
- 🍷 Communion — remembering Jesus with bread and the cup
- ❤️ Fellowship — believers caring for one another
- 💰 Giving & Ministry — generosity and service
- 🙏 Oración — together and individually
- 🙌 Praise — worship
- 🤝 Sharing the Gospel — telling others about Jesus
- 😊 Leadership — leaders raised up from within
Proyección de Multiplicación a 10 Años
This is what happens when a single house church commits to the biblical pattern of multiplying new house churches every year.
- Each house church is two couples and two single adults — 4 family units, 6 adults total.
- Year 1: the group learns and covenants to function as a biblical house church.
- From Year 2 on, each family unit helps start one new house church every year.
- So each house church produces 4 new churches a year — ×5 total growth every year.
| Año | ¿Qué Pasa? | Casas de Iglesia Totales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Training year — 1 house church forms | 1 |
| 2 | ×5 multiplication | 5 |
| 3 | ×5 multiplication | 25 |
| 4 | ×5 multiplication | 125 |
| 5 | ×5 multiplication | 625 |
| 6 | ×5 multiplication | 3,125 |
| 7 | ×5 multiplication | 15,625 |
| 8 | ×5 multiplication | 78,125 |
| 9 | ×5 multiplication | 390,625 |
| 10 | ×5 multiplication | 1,953,125 |
After 10 years, that network would include roughly 1.95 million house churches — about 11.7 million disciples at 6 adults per church — all beginning from one small group that spent its first year learning to obey and multiply.
Early House to House Fellowships turned the world upside down.
We want no less.