House Church Talk - agenda documentation

[Claire Bennett]

Some of you have asked me for some documentation, here are a few links.

Jonathan Lindvall states that hc leaders must be homeschooling fathers and their wives may not work outside the home (considered ruling his family well)  http://members.aol.com/Boldcl/leadship.htm


Steve Atkerson:  Apostolic tradition is binding upon all churches in all ages and cultures, i.e, meeting on Sunday, head coverings for women, full-meal Lord's supper (now I like this one, getting together for a meal, but it doesn't need to be a command)
http://www.ntrf.org/apostolic.html  

He also states that brothers should be free to bring a teaching, question a speaker, suggest a song.  The implication here is that a woman cannot, the women prepare the food and the men prepare what to say, but maybe I am misunderstanding.  http://www.ntrf.org/interact.html

Nope, I was not misunderstanding.

Ladies do not speak out or pray publicly in the 1Co 14 meeting (yes, we know this is hard to believe, but look up 1Co 14:33-35 and you'll see where this comes from). In contrast, the sisters do speak quite a bit during the fellowship of the Lord's Supper!