Sentences with phrase «of house churches»

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

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

A number of house churches quickly appeared in the city.

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

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

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

Nadarkhani, the leader of a network of house churches in Iran, was first convicted of apostasy in November 2010, a charge he subsequently appealed all the way to the Iranian Supreme Court.

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.

But the kind of house church that Shi hosted in his office, where he also ran a business, was not a state - sanctioned church.

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.

In 2011, 100 of those house church leaders made it to Seoul, South Korea, where the Lausanne Movement held a special conference for them.

A megachurch pastor in China's Shanghai region has been released after seven years in prison for protesting against the demolition of a house church.

Aside from one or two, the vast majority of these house churches sound almost identical to any other church, except they are much smaller, meet in a home, and don't have a pastor.

Our pastor was ordained by apostle who himself was an elder of a house church.

Mum and Dad were part of a house church at the time, and people gathered early on a Sunday morning and sung «I've Decided to Follow Jesus», as I went under the waters.

A major spike in the harassment and arrest of Iranian Christians in recent months is re-vealing just how nervous the Islamic republic is about the prodigious success of house churches, say Iranian Christian leaders.

While a college student in the Seventies, I was part of a house church called West Salem Christian Community Church (aka First Church of the West End Space City Burnouts)..

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

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

In the past half century, the Protestant presence in Oaxaca has proliferated from a few isolated outposts to an impressive number of house churches, church buildings and Bible institutes.

As it turned out, her father, Shi Weihan, the pastor of a house church, was simply trying to live out his religious beliefs.

Whether you go to a high - church liturgical expression or attend some kind of house church or a coffee shop Sunday morning bible study or Wednesday night prayer group or an occasional pub discussion... as long as you gather together with other members of the invisible church, then you are okay.

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

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).

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.

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

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

If you are part of a traditional church and have wondered how to grow in unity, or if you just want to know what church unity is all about, or if you are part of a house church, missional church, simple church, or something that doesn't look like church at all but is still connected to Jesus, then this book will invite you to grow in unity with other brothers and sisters who might follow Jesus a bit differently than you.

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