Thanks for the comments and emails on my hastily written End of the House Church? They have been very interesting! I thought I would write some more just to clarify and enlarge on what I previously wrote.

1. When I wrote the reflection I was writing from a New Zealand Church and to some degree a Western Church paradigm when I said that I wondered if House Church in the traditional sense was not expanding as had been trumpeted for the last three or four years. I agree that House Church as a concept has been increasing significantly (as has every other form of church)in other areas of the non Western World.

2. I still believe firmly that a migration out of traditional church culture and mindsets is beginning to gather steam in the Western Church and that this migration is spreading into a rainbow of expressions many of which are polar opposites to other parts of the rainbow.

3. Subversive Influence got a tad annoyed here when I mentioned not noticing numbers change and made some good points about how we view growth. I totally agree with what he wrote. I was basically given the boot out of my denomination because I came to believe that counting is a load of nonsense and ego game playing. The only reason I said it originally is because a fair number of visible House Church Commentators keep trumpeting the meteoric rise of the House Church and in my innocence I thought I would of noticed it by now.

4. In the end I am still really glad that I am no longer in the Ghetto of a mindset that I lived in when I did Normal Church. At the same time 'House Church' is no longer a destination I am heading for though I sure loved it while we did it.