Sentences with phrase «many house churches»

Use this guide in your small group, house church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth about how we should live now in light of the future reality.

Nadarkhani is the leader of a network of Iranian house churches and was first charged with apostasy in 2010 for converting from Islam to Christianity.

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».

Here in China where I live and work as a teacher, there is a state church that is monitored heavily by the government and there are the House churches that are now beginning to be heard and are holding there services out in public, but the members are being arrested and thrown in jail and yet they continue to hold there services.

12 years later — there we were, driving away from our abusive house church and meglomaniac pastor in our clunky Datsun B210, near bankrupt, with our kids, our TV, our clothing, and my guitar... and a wealth of experience!

«We saw young people coming to faith and starting small house churches.

Might not something be learned from the experience of those Chinese «house churches» that are flourishing despite no formal recognition from the Chinese government?

i.e. where there is no food bank — a network of house churches can fund and serve together; they can pool resources to build a skatepark.

It seems then, that there might be more mission and tithing power in house churches than megachurches.

Do you think house churches should have websites?

Most house churches I know give away nearly 100 % of their church «budget.»

The Bible even tells us that when the Judgement begins it will start with His House the Church first.

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

Once criticism people sometimes have of house churches is that they are nothing more than a Bible Study.

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

Apparently, the creators of this conference are part of the Renew Community, which seems to be some sort of network of house churches.

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 am not saying the three things above do not happen in small churches, or even in house churches.

A number of house churches quickly appeared in the city.

Fu took the chance behind the podium to share his personal story, telling how he was a student leader in 1989 at Tiananmen Square, then became a pastor of a house church in China.

I love the Presbyterians and the Mennonites, the Baptists and the no - names, the preachers of L.A. and the practitioners of the simple way, the megachurches and the house churches.

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

Do you attend a house church?

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: be the church, church models, house church, missional church, organic church, Theology of the Church, Wayne Jacobsen

I am not a house church proponent.

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.

Nor am I a house church critic.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: church models, house church, mega church, Theology of the Church

I guess that house church and mega church proponents have common ground after all!

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945 «1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368 pages, $ 80 A few years ago the new American ambassador to Beijing was asked for his thoughts about China's persecution of underground Protestant 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 house church movement that is, ever so slowly, growing in America has been flourishing around the globe for a long time, especially in Asia.

I don't think God cares too much which church model we use, house church, mega church, liturgical church, or free - for - all charismatic church.

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

Even the house church model is somewhat a work of human effort.

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).

On this very site, or nearby, Paul's Letter to the Romans might first have been read aloud in a Christian house church.

In general, house churches consist of 12 to 15 people who share what's going on in their lives, often turning to Scriptures for guidance.

House church proponents claim their small groups are sort of a throwback to the early Christian church in that they have no clergy and everyone is expected to contribute to the teaching, singing and praying.

«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.

House church is about relationships forged in small faith communities.

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

Whether you are a proponent of organic church, house church, mega church, or even if you are «Done» with church, this course will help all of us live in love and unity as we follow Jesus into the world.

The members of this «house church» are part of what experts say is a fundamental shift in the way U.S. Christians think about church.

72 The early church was a house church, expending its resources on love and mission rather than on special housing for itself.

Find a small group within the church or your local house church or find some Christians who you can relate your life questions with... your picture was a church right?

The Meeting House is a multisite Anabaptist congregation in Ontario, Canada where thousands of people connect to God and each other through Sunday services, online interaction, and a widespread house church network.

The most intimate and also dangerous place is a small group / house church.

Like those in large churches, the house church members felt bad about this, but didn't know what to do about it.