This is a
book on house churches that was recommended to me by Alan Hirsch. I have it on order, and I am looking forward to reading it.
One thing to note about house churches in the NT. The household was not a single nuclear family, as it is in suburbia today. Households were complex networks of extended families and businesses, as the business and home was one. While there are many strengths to the house church movement, this idea is often missed in house churches today. In addition, it is easy for the form of church--house church structure--to itself become the mission of the church, rather than recognizing that the church form is but one way of achieving the mission.
What do you think of the house church movement today?
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