{"id":14697,"date":"2013-01-13T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T19:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=14697"},"modified":"2013-06-22T21:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T05:19:47","slug":"mega-house-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/mega-house-church\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want a Mega House Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a humorous video I saw this week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mega House Church (Lyric Video) by Inside Joke\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHrD-dXdCgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video is partly funny because it&#8217;s true. There are some house churches out there that want to be &#8220;the best&#8221; and &#8220;most popular&#8221; house church in town, and take offense if anybody leaves their house church to attend another house church in town. These are all values of the mega church.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15120\" alt=\"why\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/why-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/why-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/why-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/why.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Also, some house churches are little more than &#8220;Mega church&#8221; in miniature. They set up chairs in rows in a living room, there are pulpits and hymnals, someone gets up to preach. They send the children upstairs to a bedroom for Sunday school, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t exactly have a &#8220;problem&#8221; with all of this IF people understand what they are doing and why they are doing it. But if these things are done simply and only because &#8220;This is how to do church&#8221; then some thinking needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>As followers of Jesus, we need to carefully think through every aspect of what we do and <a title=\"Questioning the Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/new-york\/swim-upstream\/questioning-the-church\/\">ask &#8220;Why?<\/a>&#8221; This will help us learn to better follow Jesus into the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is partly funny because it&#8217;s true. There are some house churches out there that want to be the best and most popular house church in town. 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