Words that would describe home group include community, family, accountability, growth, support, encouragement.

Home groups  are a place to stretch your faith, gain spiritual confidence, practice and exercise your gifting and grow in God. Home groups are also a place of safety and of comfort, where the broken are cared for and restoration facilitated.

The purpose of home groups could be summed up in Acts 2 42-44,

"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common."