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Thanks Walla, I will give it a read when I have more time. I have to head to work now.

or church uses a PA system

I disagree with the choices on the site posted apart from maybe Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth or Susan B Anthony, if there had to be a woman though what about Martha Washington or Abigail Adams?

Some Christians aren't taught that God has not forgotten Israel, and therefore they aren't informed about the issues surrounding Israel and believe what the media say about Israel.

Thanks everyone for your replies, I think Shiloh kind of reiterated my concerns on a lot of house churches. Alex, your group sounds very good and the kind of group I could fit into very well. Like Shiloh I live in a rural area too (small town of less than 1000), there was a house church here but they were Oneness Pentecostal without the dress code. Anyhow I think house churches can be good if they are like what Alex described, but as I mentioned before having done some surface level research some (not all) of them just seem really antagonistic to the traditional church, I think that is my biggest problem with it. A lot of people point to the church in Acts meeting in homes, but they fail to mention that Paul also held meeting in a public hall in Ephesus.

I have been wondering about house churches recently, I have always thought they were a bit odd to be honest and sometimes can be quite antagonistic towards those of us who are adherents to a more structures, institutional kind of church structure. I am also concerned by the lack of proper theological oversight That said due to conversations to someone quite close to me, who is rather disgruntled with church at the moment and is toying with the idea of house church. I have become curious about the house church movement. Is anyone here a member of a house church? What are your experiences with that form of church? What are the pros and cons of being part of a house church over being part of an institutional church. thanks in advance for your insights.

Great point. I have a view, i posted this in response to a movment in Christianity today that some call "hypergrace" that God turn's a blind eye on the sin of a Christian.

Does God overlook/ turn a blind eye to sin in the life of the believer?