I think house church needs time to emerge in NZ – there is still too much negative about it from ministers/leaders in the ic – so it doesn’t have a level playing field.
Also – actually – I’m much more interested in the values than the structure of hc – ie I’m committed to a bunch of values & hc happens to be a good model to outwork them in at the moment. One of these is currently being low cost (time & $) – because hc is cheap (we don’t have to pay expensive people like yourself, or for expensive buildings), more $ are released for the poor & mission. Hence, even if hc doesn’t ‘work’ (just as ic arguably doesn’t ‘work’ – ie evangelism growth), then to quote ________ “you can either have the cheap version that doesn’t work, or the expensive version that doesn’t work” – I prefer the cheap version (so we can give more $ to the poor)
Written by a friend who will remain anonymous
