Sentences with phrase «house church»

A number of house churches quickly appeared in the city.

But some arguments for house church sound like arguments for a mega church.

It would be interesting to see if his stats fit with house churches.

You know, I have been «bullied» multiple times myself, both in a large church and in a small house church.

I think house churches suffer from the same thing building churches suffer from.

Frankly, it seems that most house church groups were not even doing much of anything different from a traditional church, except on a much smaller scale.

After a short time we came to find that many house churches and small groups were actually nothing more than church on a smaller scale.

The door was definitely open to start a new house church ministry.

Therefore, the authors strongly suggest that such things should be done away with, and we should all become house churches.

So house churches are the only biblical way of doing church.

I am not trying to criticize house churches (or mega churches).

The images create another alternate setting, one which houses a church organ and a surveillance room.

My wife and I have been part of a couple of house churches.

According to some studies, there are at least 1.4 million people involved in house churches in the United States.

The northern state, which borders Nepal, is also the home of Empower Believers Connections (EBC), a flourishing house church movement.

This heavily lay - led movement tends to gravitate toward nondenominational, house church models disconnected from a larger body, both in terms of support and accountability.

But I do get nervous when house church proponents (HCP) start to condemn all other forms of church.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent advisory group appointed by the president and Congress to monitor religious freedom around the world, Wednesday expressed «deep concern» for Nadarkhani, the head of a network of Christian house churches in Iran.

In Greco - Roman culture of the first few centuries, I look at house churches and say, «Yes.

They added that they are concerned with the lack of healthcare available to the men as well as the worry that this is not an isolated incident: «We are aware of several other reported cases in which members of the Christian minority have received heavy sentences after being charged with «threatening national security», either for converting people or for attending house churches,» they said.

«Several urban house church leaders signed a petition in support of the Three - Self church in Zhejiang,» Ro wrote.

With more than 1,000 Protestant house churches meeting in Moscow alone, cracking down to the letter of the law will not be easy.

The «Yarovaya package» requires missionaries to have permits, makes house churches illegal, and limits religious activity to registered church buildings, among other restrictions.

For example, he takes one on a tour of the baptistery in the early - third century house church of Dura Europos (Ferguson, Baptism 440 - 443).

The lawyers also represent older house church networks.

I imagine it is something found in the underground house churches in nations where Christians experience persecution.

Officially, the Yarovaya law requires missionaries to have permits, makes house churches illegal, and limits religious activity to registered church buildings, among other restrictions.

Baptist Press: 48 Chinese Christians detained New Year's Day Beijing authorities detained 48 members of a large persecuted house church on New Year's Day, marking a total of more than 1,000 church members who have been taken into police custody during the church's 38 weeks of attempting to hold outdoor worship services.

Garrison projects that today there may be several hundred thousand Christ - followers, mostly worshipping in Iranian house churches.

Like large churches, when house churches meet, they fellowship, sing a few songs, pray, have a time of Bible teaching, and finish up with a few «reminders» (aka announcements).

I have visited several house churches.

«We are deeply concerned by the long jail sentences imposed at a previous hearing on Pastor Victor Bet Tamraz, Amin Afshar Naderi and Hadi Asgari for allegedly «conducting evangelism» and «illegal house church activities», and similar charges.»

The last house church I was in believed Christ let you do whatever you wanted.

challenged Gary Locke, current U.S. Secretary of Commerce and President Obama's nominee for the next ambassador to China, to worship at an unregistered house church instead of a Three - Self Patriotic Movement state church in order to «publicly identify with the persecuted.»

Ting and Wenzao are doing everything they can to absorb China's underground house churches into the mainstream of the Three - Self Movement.

If I had to choose between house church and mega church I'd probably go with the former since I don't want to help pay for the mega properties, staff and programs that go with the latter.

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, potentially illegal.

HRPM lawyers are official legal counsel for the Chinese House Church Alliance, established in 2004 to represent 300,000 members of smaller independent churches.

House churches often accuse the institutional churches of equating church with a building.

A court has rejected an appeal made on behalf of four Iranian Christian converts who were all charged with propagating house churches and promoting «Zionist Christianity».

There are often «projects» (& maybe there is a better word) that can reflect the heart of God, but are beyond the scope of a single house church.

So the 1.4 million people involved in house churches equals about 467 megachurches, and almost 100 % of the money that these 1.4 million people give to their home groups goes straight to some sort of missions activity.

Through the internet, I've come to find that others have experienced cult - like or abusive practices at «Christian Fellowship Ministries» or Potter's House churches associated with Wayman Mitchell.

I only was exceptioning house church on the basis that it has potential to be scriptural.