Re: House Church - How It's Done.
Basically a house church is an open Bible discussion group led by an appoint elder. The shared meal is also seen as a central practice with the breaking of bread and the Lord's Supper being observed.
One of the biggest mistakes people make in house churching is taking the model of the institutional church down to fit in a living room by trying to "teach" a group of people instead of allowing discussion, confession, and prayer to freely take place. In House Church all an elder has to do is throw out a topic, or maybe a topic and a passage, and ask the group what they think based on what they understand about the Bible. The elder should steer the conversation towards the Biblical truths of Scripture if someone gets on a tangent or begins teaching error.
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