house church

noun

1. a group of Christians meeting for worship in a private house

2. a nondenominational charismatic Church movement

Example Sentences

“There’s been a perception that online worship models are the most secure option—it’s convenient and under the radar, and the hybrid model seems like it’s threading that needle,” Hannah Nation, managing director of the Center for House Church Theology, said in an interview.

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Zion began as a small house church in Beijing with just 20 followers.

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In 2006, the Chinese government detained Lin for his efforts to build a “house church,” or a place of worship independent from state-sanctioned religious institutions.

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For example, Wagner cited the “African independent church movement” of the early 20th century and the “Chinese rural house church movement that was around in the mid-1970s. And then he talks about the third large component of the NAR, which for him was the grassroots church movement in Latin America,” also in the 1970s.

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The couple took the child in, Sonari recalled, and invited her to their house church.

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