Hccentral.com -Group advocating organized religious worship in homes
Title
House Church Central
Description
The reader of these pages will quickly discover an emphasis on the small, local "church" that conforms to the first century model. To other Christians, it might be a "cell" church, a "small group," or even a small assembly of believers that meets in a special building once every Sunday morning. But, where its constituents gather to build relationships and work corporately toward God's agenda, they are regarded as "churches" here--the "two or three gathered in Jesus' name" (Mt. 18:20). Paul liked to encourage each such small fellowship to look upon itself as a
, containing all the members necessary to function in an independent and self-sufficient way. But that self-sufficiency did not mean that the house churches were not to communicate with one other, as Robert Banks says:
On the contrary, Paul both initiated and encouraged fellowship between them in a variety of ways. But he sought to build up enduring relationships of an organic, or only loosely organized, rather than institutional, character. This took place through the exchange of letters from their apostle (Col. 4:16), the visits of individuals from one group to another (e.g., Rom. 16:1), the sending of financial aid during time of need (e.g., 2 Cor. 8:11-13), the burden of prayer on each other's behalf (e.g., 2 Cor. 8:14), and the passing of greetings and news through intermediaries... (
Contact
- House Church Central (HCCENTRAL-DOM)
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- San Rafael CA
- United States 94903
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- +1 415 479-3924
