Sentences with phrase «house church movement»

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

The house church movement that is, ever so slowly, growing in America has been flourishing around the globe for a long time, especially in Asia.

This is seen in the growing strength of Evangelical churches and of the house church movement.

«I think part of the appeal for some in the house church movement is the desire to return to a simpler expression of church,» said Ed Stetzer, a seminary professor and president of Lifeway Research, which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Though Barna reports that the house church movement in Western Christianity is multiplying rapidly (somewhere between 5 - 20 million people in the United States attend a house church), the statistics also show that the vast majority of these house church members transferred from an «institutional» church to a house church.

I am not trying to denigrate the house church movement.

So I love the house church movement and am excited about where it is headed.

About the house church movement.

But I get real uncomfortable with the reasoning and logic behind much of the house church movement.

This is the house church movement.

And I'm not part of the house church movement because I read about house churches in the Book of Acts.

I am part of the house church movement for one main reason.

Nor am I part of the house church movement because I dislike sermons, songs, and stained glass.

My Church Position So why am I (somewhat) part of the house church movement?

The house church movement is booming, with converts estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

The house church movement was booming in the 70s and 80s, and thousands of people of all ages were powerfully impacted.

NPR suggests one possible reason for the decline in new church buildings is the rise of the house church movement.

One of the bloggers I read, who is a published author and a key leader of the house church movement, does some strange things on his blog (And no, he is not listed in my blogroll, so don't try to guess who it is).

It was a song of unity by Bob Gillman from the Romford Fellowship, part of the house church movement.

The house church movement began and grew as many moved away from the more traditional denominations.