quote:I come to realize that Babylon the Great is not Roman Catholics, but the instituted church as a whole - who is marked by compromises made with the world.
Using the same criteria, I ask if the house church community is also not a part of Babylon? If you haven't noticed, many - including the "leaders" - in the house church movement are getting real cozy with the emergent church movement. Check the first page of results from a google search of "house church" and you'll see associations and links to the emerging church.
(I suspect they'll be getting much cozier when they realize that there are far more of us than they, at least according to George Barna, in his under-researched, over-priced book, Revolution. None of this is to say that everything about and everyone in the emergent church is useless - far from it. In fairness, that must be added. Nor do we make judgments based solely on associations.)
Barna, for example, who just did the National House Church Conference as the main guest speaker, is going to do a Revolution Conference with Brian McLaren, chief guru of the emergent church. A couple of weeks ago, McLaren, in a front page Washington Post article, strongly implied that abortion and gay-life were maybe OK or not really issues Jesus would have cared much about.
Hey, the fact that the emergent movement is, by and large, clergy-led speaks innumerable volumes.
Read these articles yourselves, and others, then decide if serious compromises have not been made among US.
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I never thought house church would become a denomination - a simulation the enemy does to lure people back to the whore. Guess there's no one to trust but the Lord. Thanks for the heads up.
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C, you remind me today of a sign I used to see behind the counter at an old country store I used to visit. The store was in the coalfields of Appalachia where "jot em down" credit had ruined many a buyer and seller.
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