Category Archives: house church
Authority in science and religion, with short reflections on climate change, creation science and house church
The popular challenge to climate change science raises interesting questions about authority, expertise and the gap between popular opinion and the ‘experts’. For many scientists, academics and politicians, there isn’t a debate about the science – or there shouldn’t be. … Continue reading
Filed under environment, fundamentalism, house church, politics
My big brown Strong’s Exhaustative Concordance, or how I think the Bible is being read badly
(I’m going to sound grumpy, but I’m not, I’ve just been thinking a lot about the use of the Bible.) It concerns me how badly the Bible is used by most evangelicals. Much of it stems from a failure to … Continue reading
Roman House Churches for Today
I’ve only just come across this book. It was published last year and is written by Reta Finger, a Mennonite theologian who also wrote a significant book on common meals in the early church. I’m looking forward to reading this; … Continue reading
Filed under house church
Discouraged by a man who hears from God
I spent yesterday at a day long seminar which was meant to be about house church but wasn’t really. I came away with a heavy heart. The speaker was an American with an international ministry, but focused on India. He … Continue reading
Filed under house church, my spiritual journey
The failure to be friendly
I think committed Christian communities – new monastics, house churches, emerging churches and other variations – are the most exciting thing happening for the kingdom of God at the moment. But today I was struck afresh by our main failing: unfriendliness. … Continue reading
Filed under church (ecclesiology), house church
Book review – Evaluating the church growth movement : 5 views
This is an important book for me to have read. Throughout the book, several references are made to common misunderstandings of the church growth movement. The problem is that people like me associate it with megachurches and seeker-sensitive services and … Continue reading
Body life #4: The open meeting
This is the fourth in a series of six articles first published in Oikos in 2007. They are a simplification of John Yoder’s Body Politics Simplified – this time with a specifically house church audience in mind. Paul told us how … Continue reading
Filed under Body Politics, house church
Body life #3: Everyone has a gift for the church – Priests are out of work!
This is the third in a series of six articles first published in Oikos in 2007. They are a further simplification of my ‘John Yoder’s Body Politics Simplified’ – this time with a specifically house church audience in mind. Baptism brings … Continue reading
Filed under Body Politics, house church
Body Life # 2: The Lord’s Supper – Putting the eating back into meeting
This is the second in a series of six articles first published in Oikos. They are a simplification of John Yoder’s Body Politics Simplified – this time with a specifically house church audience in mind. Our life together as a … Continue reading
Filed under Body Politics, house church
Emerging church V house church
An important difference between the emerging church and the older house church movement is in mission. The emerging church seems a very missional church, at least in the Australian incarnation. It attracts not just Christians who are disaffected with institutional … Continue reading
Filed under church (ecclesiology), house church
