PAUL'S LETTERS MENTION HOUSE CHURCHES
3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 4 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. 5 Greet also the church in their house.
Romans 16:3-5 (ESV)
19 The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. 20 All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
1 Cor 16:19-20 (ESV)
15 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house
Col 4:15 (ESV)
To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 2 and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
Philem 1:1-2 (ESV)
"No perception is more firmly rooted in our culture than that the church is a building-a view held by both churched and unchurched. Ask the unchurched the direction to church. In a thousand common expressions we refer to the church as a place.
I accepted the Savior, Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior in 1950. I have been a Christian since 1950. I have no doubt that a Christian believer critically needs the both to give and receive the support and fellowship of other Christians. I served 25 years as a missionary pastor, committed to work of Christ and His Gospel by a board of peer review--fellow pastors. I still love and pray for my brothers and sisters in work.
3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 4 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. 5 Greet also the church in their house.
Romans 16:3-5 (ESV)
19 The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. 20 All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
1 Cor 16:19-20 (ESV)
15 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house
Col 4:15 (ESV)
To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 2 and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
Philem 1:1-2 (ESV)
"No perception is more firmly rooted in our culture than that the church is a building-a view held by both churched and unchurched. Ask the unchurched the direction to church. In a thousand common expressions we refer to the church as a place.
Who does not say, "I'm going to church"? We call the BUILDING where we worship, the church. not that we are building men and women in spiritual maturity.
This is no harmless colloquialism. It both presupposes and conditions our view of the church, creating what some have aptly called the "edifice complex," wherein the importance is directly measured by the size and grandeur of the structure itself." Chuck Colson
I accepted the Savior, Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior in 1950. I have been a Christian since 1950. I have no doubt that a Christian believer critically needs the both to give and receive the support and fellowship of other Christians. I served 25 years as a missionary pastor, committed to work of Christ and His Gospel by a board of peer review--fellow pastors. I still love and pray for my brothers and sisters in work.
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