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House Church Theology
The Home Church? It hasn’t changed. But what happened to the Institutional Church? see Home vs. Institution NEW Home Church Theoloogy Classroom on YouTube Why Theology? Can’t we just read our bibles? Paul told the Philippians to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” That can only mean that we each have a responsibility…
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Spiritual Gifts
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…
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Ordination
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…
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Authority in the Church
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…
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Separation of Church and State
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…
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House Church and the Will of God
What do you think has the highest priority in the Church? Learning and obeying the will of God? Or being entertained with music and preaching? Let’s say that a group of Christians, whether large or small, needs to make a decision. The House Church’s gathered people have direct access to the Lord, who, we are…
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Darby
Seven Age Dispensationalism To say that the appearance of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909 caused a dramatic change in evangelical Christianity would be an understatement. Many have studied its footnotes with great care, almost giving them an authority equal to the biblical text itself. Anyone who dares raise any question about its teachings is immediately called…
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hc Theo history
History of House Church Theology House Church Theology has a long historical thread. That is, certain writers over the centuries have built upon the contributions of those who lived in prior generations. This page presents a shortened list of contributors–but in listing these persons it is not the intent of this short essay to necessarily…