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Originally Posted by MamaHen
Unfortunately you are. I received a response from the admin, and was told that my view on house churches was "controversial" and "divisive" and that it was not "fit for EA." That is why my Home church group was deleted and I was banned.
Which is interesting because the description I used for the group was PURE SCRIPTURE. I never said that traditional churches were evil, or that house churches were the only way, simply that this was where God had brought me.
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as one who has been predominately "house-2-house" assembly for the last 4 years, I think the largest occassion for polarity involves a key differentiator between the two delivery systems; the traditional role for men as founding/senior pastors.
If a person is convinced that God uses men as subordinate heads between the sheep and the Good Shepherd, and these subordinate heads (Moses' seat holders of the NT) are to be obeyed as rulers, any alternate system that repositions these persons as gifts and guides, instead of as rulers, is a source of consternation for those who are the primary stakeholders in a building-centric delivery system.
If these same people are the sponsors of various online communities, they would
NATURALLY oppose providing any stage for discussing the assembly of the Saints in any other manner than what they themselves officiate over --a former tabernacle that is a building. It would be like a home educator sponsoring online costs and administration in service to a discussion forum where folks wanted to discuss parental groups working together with government schools...it just would not be encouraged or welcomed.
What is needed is for those of us with interest, energy and resource, to get together and work to provide a credible, workable, web-presence for house-to-house leaning folks to share encouragement and be encouraged.