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gnarley said:
Thanks Paul. Whether we like it or not, "House Churches" are the wave of the future. Once our Lefties get some judge to declare tax exempt status for Church property unconstitutional , we won't have any other choice. As is the case in Asia, they spread like wildfire, making the Western church look anemic.

That's it -- the church is going to change in approaches to reaching people just as it always has, only hopefully with the emerging house church it will be a lot more biblical. I have to admit, I found the movement, as I always wondered why the church experience was irrelevant to me, and I started digging more and more into Scripture on what church really was supposed to be.

In the house church movement, there is a debate on whether the churches should be 501(c)(3). I take the position definitely. There are good reasons for having non-profit corporation statutes and for always obeying the law.

And, yes -- the house church movement has a lot of variety, within biblical confines, and it leads to making Christianity real and exciting for many, many of us. However, if times of persecution come, the house church will be the movement that deals with it most effectively, as it has done in the past and the present.

Regards,

M Paul