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Originally Posted by Igzy
Yes, we've heard all this already. But the existence of house churches in the NT shows that you can be part of the city church and part of a house church also.
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The ground of locality, prohibits a house church, if that house church is meeting because it is a "house church". There is a "house church" movement, which tries to create a church by a model of people meeting in houses. Well, believers could meet in a park, and because of that the "house church model" is a divisive one.
If it is meeting on the ground of locality, then it is a genuine local church. This means, if it is meeting because they are believers that love the Lord and live near each other, and meeting in a house is the most practical way to do that, then that is a genuine local church on the ground of locality.
Many of the churches in the Lord's Recovery are exactly that ,house churches comprising believers who love the Lord and desire to meet together because they live in the same locality.
If they are believers in the Lord, that are travelling from one city to another city, just to fellowship in the house church because it is a house, or because its teaching is good, then that is a sect.
Does the house church accept and fellowship with the other house church on the nearby street?
Does the house church consider itself to be separate from the other believers in their locality?
I use the term "house church" to facilitate discussion, but begrudgingly, knowing that a Christian or church should never be defined by the type of building it meets in.