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Household Church 82
"Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it."1 Households were the bastions of the faith in the Early Church. Paul writes, "God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth."2 Remarkably, God chooses to operate today, as in the Early Church, through the household Body of Christ. You and I, who love Jesus, are together God's divine vehicle, "Christ's Body!" The Body of Christ is most clearly seen in the household.
She is the small team of Christian friends and family who work and worship together. Households in the Early Church were extended families with grandparents, parents, children, teenagers and widowed relatives, as well as servants, many babies and infants. They also embraced other childless couples and small family units. In the New Testament record, they conduct their own worship services at home. They give baptismal instruction, perform baptisms, and celebrate the Lord's Supper all around the kitchen table.
1 1 Corinthians 12.27. 2 1 Timothy 3.15.
"The Household Body of Christ."
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