House Church
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House church (or "home church") is used to describe an independent assembly of Christians who gather in a home. Sometimes this occurs because the group is small, and a home is the most appropriate place to gather, as in the early church, or the beginning phase of the British New Church Movement. Sometimes it is because the group is a member of an underground Christian movement, which is otherwise banned from meeting, as in China. More recently some modern writers have determined that the home is the "right" place to meet, and have based the operation of their communities around multiple small ...
House church (or "home church") is used to describe an independent assembly of Christians who gather in a home. Sometimes this occurs because the group is small, and a home is the most appropriate place to gather, as in the early church, or the beginning phase of the British New Church Movement. Sometimes it is because the group is a member of an underground Christian movement, which is otherwise banned from meeting, as in China. More recently some modern writers have determined that the home is the "right" place to meet, and have based the operation of their communities around multiple small home meetings. Their justification for avoiding public meetings in dedicated buildings are many, and include: it is a more effective way of building "community"; it helps the group to engage in outreach more naturally; or more controversially, they believe small family-sized churches were a deliberate apostolic pattern in the first century and intended by Christ.
