Notable and Technical House Church Book

This is the latest edition - the recent 3rd edition - of an important house church book. I am waiting on my own copy to arrive and will share a few blurbs from the publisher. I am eager to see what the author has changed or added, since the original book appeared about 40 years ago. I see that many of the chapters were renamed as well as the book itself.

Contents: Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition, Preface to the First Edition Introduction 1. The Sociocultural and Religious Settings 2. The Gospel of Other-DirectedFreedom 3. Church in Family Business Residences4. Church as Present Heavenly Reality 5. The Community as a Loving Household 6. The Community as an Organic Harmony 7. Mutual Learning and Testing of Faith 8. Common Meals and Signs of Fellowship 9. The Sharing of Gifts and Ministry 10. The Interplay of Grace and Order 11. Unity and Diversity among the Members 12. The Contribution of Women in Church 13. Abolishing Religious Distinctions between Members 14. Defining Leadership by Function, Not Position 15. The Role of Visiting Missioners 16. The Link between Mission and Church 17. The Nature of Paul's Authority 18. The Exercise of Paul's Influence Conclusion, Appendix 1: The Drift of the Pastorals Appendix 2: Going to Church in the First Century Glossary Indexes

This highly readable investigation of the early church explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communities. It introduces readers to the cultural setting of the house churches of biblical times, examines the apostle Paul's vision of life in the Christian church, and explores how the New Testament model of community applies to Christian practice today. Updated and revised throughout, this 40th-anniversary edition incorporates recent research, updates the bibliography, and adds a new fictional narrative that depicts the life and times of the early church., Paul's Idea of Community explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communities. This third edition has been fully revised throughout and includes a fictional narrative that depicts the life and times of the early church. Book jacket., This highly readable investigation of the early church explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communities. Now updated and revised throughout.

My main issue with the previous editions was that the prominent author refers to the so called pastoral epistles as not genuine. Most scholars don't either, I am aware. But why are we even having this conversation is these letters are fake and thus have zero binding authority?