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Apostolic Home Churches
A House Church, Domestic Church or House Chapel comprises a group of Christians meeting for worship in a private home rather than in a public church building. This is usually necessitated by a smaller size congregation, unavailability or non-affordability of a church facility or predominantly broadcasting Services via the Internet.
The Greek word KOIOVIVA [koi-noh-NEE-ah] is understood as an interactive, reciprocating and participating relationship with both God and believers who share in their mutual life in Christ (Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3 & 6–7; 2 Cor. 9:13; Phil. 3:10).
House churches have also become a sign of necessity in many places due to dwindling numbers of committed or practicing Orthodox Christians, especially in the Western Diaspora.
The Greek word KOIOVIVA [koi-noh-NEE-ah] is understood as an interactive, reciprocating and participating relationship with both God and believers who share in their mutual life in Christ (Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3 & 6–7; 2 Cor. 9:13; Phil. 3:10).
House churches have also become a sign of necessity in many places due to dwindling numbers of committed or practicing Orthodox Christians, especially in the Western Diaspora.
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"Greet your wife Apphia, our sister, and Archippus, our fellow soldier in ministry; and the church that meets in your house" (Philemon 1:2)
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"The congregations of Asia send you their greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church [that meets] in their house, send you their warm greetings in the Lord" (1 Corinthians 16:19).
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"Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea and to Nympha and the congregation that meets in her house" (Colossians 4:15).
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"Also greet the congregation that meets in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the first convert to Christ from the west coast province of Asia" (Romans 16:5).
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Congregations meeting in their homes is an old, Biblical practice that certainly has returned in these Last Days of the "Remnant Church."
(SPECIAL THANKS to His Eminence Mar +MELCHIZEDEK, Orthodox Church of Epirus, for his contribution of this article)
(SPECIAL THANKS to His Eminence Mar +MELCHIZEDEK, Orthodox Church of Epirus, for his contribution of this article)
