I am not trying to
criticize house churches (or mega churches).
Not exact matches
In Altman's view, people who have
criticized those ideas for businesses have cast the entrepreneurs behind them as «heretics,» like how the Catholic
Church sentenced Galileo to
house arrest for (correctly) saying the Earth revolves around the sun.
So, either
house church proponents need to stop
criticizing the institutional
church as being so focused on buildings and services, or we need to ask ourselves the same hard questions that institutional
churches ask.
Show me another organization or business that has fed, clothed,
housed, and educated more poor people all over the world than The
Church before
criticizing the money The
Church spends.
An interesting story is developing in Russia, where an American Missionary is challenging a widely
criticized law that makes certain «religious activities» like distributing Bibles, evangelizing and holding
house churches,...