House churches/Organic church, your opinion?

Aquila · #15 10-28-2011, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by AtlantaBishop

You guys keep saying House Church like the House is the Church and we all know that buildings are not the Church but people are the Church! I wish you guys would get this right.
Slap your neighbor and say, A Church is not a Church because the People are the Church and a House is not a Church unless the House Church People say it is! AMEN! We all get it now!
Don't it just make you want to run from anything called a CHURCH and go a little house that is called a House Church where you can wear house shoes (or "no shoes" for that matter) and read the Bible and drink coffee and eat goulash and talk about those deceived people that go to buildings that are called CHURCH and how much better we are than them and teach them to STOP TITHING!
GO HOUSE CHURCH PEOPLE! GO! It just seems so exciting!

Yes the church is a people, not a building with a steeple. It's also not a house.

And when the "church" (the disciples of Jesus) meet Paul tells us several things are to take place....

- Everyone being able to bring a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation.
- Gift of tongues coupled with interpretation, two or at most three.
- Two or three anointed teachers speak and guide the meeting.
- If a saint attending has a revelation or something to share, whoever is speaking must stop and give them the floor so that all might be able to prophesy, learn, and be encouraged. Meetings are to be discussion based.
- Those who address the group must realize that their spirits are subject to the anointed teachers guiding the group.
- Women (or anyone for that matter) are not to use the time for socializing.
- Those who think they are spiritual Christians should acknowledge that this order of service is a command from the Lord.

All of this is found in (I Corinthians 14:26-38).

Now... if the disciples of Jesus strictly meet in a setting that is too large to facilitate this kind of body ministry... biblical fellowship and discipleship as Paul would describe it isn't taking place. Therefore, rather the church meets occasionally in large building or not (mine does) the small group gatherings are more beneficial for a deeper and more biblical Christian walk and experience.