HCC/HCDL House Church Directory
The Lord's Table House Church
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LOCATION | DETAILS | |||
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| City: | Oxford | Founded: | 0 | ||
| County: | Marquette | Updated: | 03/19/2012 | ||
| State: | WI | Children: | Welcome | ||
| Country: | USA | Charismatic: | |||
Filling out this form I was surprised that there would ever be a question as to whether children were welcome. Hmmm... We are, Charles & Evi, with three of our kids at home: Nicole (19), David (17) and Jacob (10). We are just a family now, as we had some shakeups, but want to meet with others in the area. Some extended beliefs concerning home church are listed below. * The Lord’s Supper celebrated weekly as a full, fellowship meal and as the main reason for the weekly church meeting (Ac 2:42 , 20:7, 1Co 11:18 -20, 11:33). In the center of the feast is the one cup and the one loaf (1Co 10:16 -17), both symbolizing and creating unity. The mood of the meal is joy, more than solemn reflection, as the focus of the Lord’s Supper is the anticipation of the return of our Lord Jesus. The Lord's Supper is a rehearsal dinner for the future Wedding Banquet of the Lamb (Re 19:6-9)! * Church meetings that are interactive and spontaneous, per 1 Corinthians 14, rather than performances by professionals. Every one of the brothers is to be free to contribute to the meetings (via a teaching, a song, a testimony, a prayer, etc.). Open participation is to be the norm, not the exception. The overarching directive for anything said in the meeting is that it must edify the church (1Co 14:26). * A commitment to New Testament patterns (apostolic tradition) for church practice (1Co 11:2, Phlp 4:9, 2Th 2:15) as well as apostolic teaching for church theology (Ac 2:42). We advocate historic, orthodox Christian theology and traditional New Testament church practice. Concerned questions, and the burden of explanation, ought to fall on those who seek to deviate from apostolic tradition, not on those who wish to keep it. * Consensus decisions made by all the brothers, following Christ as Head of His church. Thus, elder-led more so than elder-ruled churches. Though elders are very important to the functioning of the church, decisions are generally to be made by the church corporately, not by its elders only (Mt 18:15-20, Lk 22:24-27, 1Pe 51-4). * Home-sized and home-based churches (thus, smaller rather than larger fellowships) that are linked together into networks of other autonomous house churches (Ro 16:5, 1Co 1:27-29, Col 4:15, Phlm 2). City-wide church activities might include larger rented facilities where evangelism, leadership training, the equipping of the saints, multi-church Bible studies, public worship, etc. occur. However, the regular Lord’s Day meeting of the local church is to be in homes. Primary and weekly are the local house church meetings; secondary (and optional) are larger (multi-church) gatherings. * Church as more of a family than a business. Meeting in homes helps foster community, accountability and intimacy among the members of the body. Further, churches are to be family friendly. The church and the family are to be integrated, not segregated. Age-graded Sunday School and Children’s Church only serves to further divide families. Children belong in church meetings and Bible studies with their parents.