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  • How to find a House Church

    How to find a House Church

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    How to Find a House Church People often ask where house churches are near by them. We have a very simple to use listing for you to list yourself if you are looking for a house church or if you have a house church. No log in or account set up is required. HCDL House…

  • Spiritual Gifts

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    Spiritual gifts are among the least understood subjects among believers, yet are one of the most important parts of church life. Paul’s writings are the main source of instruction regarding the gifts, and areprobably the best place to start is in 1 Corinthians Chapters 12 through 14. That these chapters be considered as a whole…

  • Authority in the Church

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    When persecution against the House Churches eased early early in the 4th century under Constantine, Christians found ways to form larger assemblies, encouraged, no doubt, by Constantine’s aggressive church-building programs. It is not surprising that these larger assemblies formed hierarchies. This very human tendency is so common that one has to wonder why Moses needed…

  • Ordination

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    Does It Have Any Place in the Houses Church? The purpose of ordinations is to ensure that candidates for leadership positions in the church meet the expectations of the church calling them. Those include experience and theological training, and if the role includes preaching, the presentation of a sample sermon. Usually there is also an…

  • Separation of Church and State

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    While house church theology and the American political left may disagree on a long list of issues, they are in lock step on the question of the separation of church and state–but for completely different reasons. One might look at separation in a number of ways. We Christians are told that we must separate from…

  • One Plants, Another Waters, and Then…?

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    by James Rohrer Dr. Rohrer is Editor in Chief, Sage JPC and HME, University Research Reviewer, Walden University. This essay is motivated by the observation that Christian small assemblies are formed, sometimes grow into networks, then seemingly evaporate in just a few years. Some plant, others water, and then what? Is God bringing an increase? Or…

  • A House Church vs. Modern Church Parable

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    by John Lepera The Parable of the Mower Turned Go Cart A man once purchased a lawn mower which he used for many successful years. Eventually he removed the engine and wheels and converted them into a go cart for his son, who used the go cart many more years before selling it. Over the…

  • About the Children

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    Introduction How many times have you had a friend or colleague tell you that they once were church goers but gave it up years ago? If you are like me, the number is beyond counting. I suggest these folks never really had an adult conversion where they experieniced the living Jesus in an powerful and…

  • Evangelism

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    EVANGELISM AND OUTREACH  ======================== Subject: Why not the Yellow Pages? From: AB HCDLers: For years, we have been saying things like: “How can we get networked, how  can people find us, when we don’t have a building on the corner and we’re not in the Yellow Pages?” I had a “Jack-Sims-esque” thought the other  day…

  • Why Do People Home Church?

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    by David M. Hebden 1997 The reasons that people “home church” are as diverse as the people who make up the gatherings. This is not an exhaustive explanation and will no doubt evolve as time goes on. These thoughts originated from responses to this question on HCDL. Some of us simply came to the conclusion…