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This is from Andrew Jones.  Since I haven’t been posting much lately, I’ll use some excellent quotes to give us some stuff to think about: Some Gripes About House Church:1. Name is Misleading.The label needs to change from house church to something that better describes it. I saw a house church network in Central Europe…

Tony Dale has written out his responses to someone asking about house church and the question of authority.  You can read the entire text here if you wish.  Here are some excerpts: How do other house churches deal with the issue of being under authority? [Tony] This varies widely between house churches. Most that we…

The following is from Dr. Ralph Winters from the Center of World Missions (via John White again): "…the trend to house churches is a phenomenon which runs counter to the long and slow drift of American churches away from extended families.  The American church today is strikingly more and more a place for family fragments,…

Peter Worthington is hosting a "House Church Weekend" in the UK facilitated by Tony and Felicity Dale.  More information here.

John White comments on the need to understand what a "household" really is in Scripture.  Just having a church in a house does not do justice to the scriptural meaning of 24/7 community life.  John says, "moving church from a special church building into a home does not go nearly far enough."  Here’s his entire…

Here is an email/newsletter I received from Mike Lyons: I have made a promise to myself. I will stop inviting people to my church. Hear me out now. I spent nearly a decade with my well paid job in the church trying to get people to come to church. We would develop strategies, advertising through…

My previous post on "That Which Has True Kingdom Value… Love" received so many excellent comments that I thought it was worth posting some of the highlights. I questioned the difficulty of living lives of Kingdom love within the context of the institutional/traditional church structures: "I believe there are better ways to live lives of…

A friend passed along a sermon by Greg Boyd who was on an indefinite leave of absence from pastoring a large church.  He expresses his crisis of faith: My present crisis was precipitated precisely because the clearer I¹ve gotten about the profound significance of the kingdom, the foggier I¹ve gotten about the relationship that exists…

John offers a straightforward comment on the previous post listing some of Robert Fitts "Trends": The amazing thing that occured to me when reading these "trends" is that these are the teachings of Christ that have been "lost" to a hierarchical, socially concerned, politically connected, professional and academically ingrained church principality since after the time…

Robert Fitts has shared with me an early version of a manuscript he is working on called "Rethinking Church."  He is the author of "The Church in the House." I’m not sure what his ultimate intention for this manuscript is, so I don’t want to publish much of it at this point.  But here is…