{"id":161,"date":"2017-03-04T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2017-03-20T04:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T04:32:39","slug":"are-house-churches-scriptural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/04\/are-house-churches-scriptural\/","title":{"rendered":"Are House Churches Biblical?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Or.. maybe a better question: Are house churches any less biblical\u00a0than churches <\/strong>that meet in a an institutional church building? <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Scriptures to consider:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Philemon 1:2<\/a><\/h2>\n

And Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Acts 2:46<\/a><\/h3>\n

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes<\/strong>, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Acts 2:42<\/a><\/h3>\n

And they devoted themselves to the apostles\u2019 teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1 Corinthians 16:19<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house<\/strong>, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Colossians 4:15<\/a><\/h3>\n

Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Acts 20:20<\/a><\/h3>\n

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Romans 16:5<\/a><\/h3>\n

Greet also the church in their house<\/strong>. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Matthew 18:20<\/a><\/h3>\n

For where two or three are gathered<\/strong> in my name, there am I among them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Acts 5:42<\/a><\/h3>\n

And every day, in the temple and from house to house<\/strong>, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Acts 2:2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Romans 16:1-27<\/a><\/h3>\n

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. Greet also the church in their house.<\/strong> Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia. \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1 Corinthians 14:26<\/a><\/h3>\n

What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation.<\/strong> Let all things be done for building up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Romans 12:4-8<\/a><\/h3>\n

For as in one body we have many members<\/strong>, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ<\/strong> according to the grace given to us, let us use them<\/strong>: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who<\/strong> teaches, in his teaching; the one who<\/strong> exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who<\/strong> contributes, in generosity; the one who<\/strong> leads, with zeal; the one who<\/strong> does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.<\/p>\n

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Or.. maybe a better question: Are house churches any less biblical\u00a0than churches that meet in a an institutional church building? Scriptures to consider: Philemon 1:2 And Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-authentication-of-house-church-existence-practice","tag-are-house-churches-scriptural"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OpenBibleinAir.jpeg?fit=275%2C183","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shilohhousechurchmaine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}