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The Best of F. L. Anderson:

• Why The Black Community Should Consider Simple/House Churches
• Not “Going to Church” Anymore
• The Growing House Church Movement
• God Has Left the Building!
• Does Jesus Care About the Things We Care About?
• Shouldn't This Bother You?
• The Deathbed of The Church
• Fresh, New and Different
• Has Your Church Become an 8-Hour Job?
• Church Protocols Over God?
• Do You Attend a Church or a 501-c3?
• Looks Can Kill!
• Don't Let the World Out Smart You!
• Tell the Story and Play your Role

Read "Clever Lies and Assumptions" and Discover:

• 16 Facts about Tithing pastors don't want you to know
• Tithing - Who was Malachi Really Talking To?
• Five Reasons why Melchizedek does not provide a legitimate pre-law foundation for tithing
• 1873: TITHING FIRST SUGGESTED IN USA
• Giving: What Your Pastor Won't Tell You
• Why Giving as Opposed to Tithing to fund your church?
• Christian Clergy/Organizations who oppose tithing

Plus:

• 14 Myths Assumptions & Lies about Tithing
• Six Signs and Symptoms of a Controlling
  Ministry and Spiritual Abuse (Short List)
• Why is the "Church" in Financial Debt?
• Is the Lord your Shepherd or the Shepherd your Lord?

Every year, one million Christians leave the institutional church in the United States. Presently, the number of adult Christians meeting in Home/House/Simple churches in the USA is six to twelve million and growing. So what is "Simple Church"? Simple Church in not as the name suggest, simplistic or easy. Nor is it just a smaller version of conventional churches. Simple Church is a whole new way of being the church, rather than just having church or attending a building. It is a way of living that is focused on loving relationships, outreach, lifestyle and fundamentally being connected to God. So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world? Galatians 4:9

We are used to thinking of church as a building, but how does the Bible portray the church? Interestingly, the Bible never uses the word “church” to describe a building; instead, it gives us the picture of the church as a family. Here are some biblical examples of New Testament house churches:

• Lydia’s House (Acts 16:40)
• An Upper Room (Acts 20:8)
• Priscilla and Aquila’s house (Romans 16:3-5, 1 Corinthians 16:19)
• Nympha’s house in Laodicea (Colossians 4:15)
• Archippa’s house (Philemon 2)
• Some in the West see the house church as a new phenomenon when, in reality, house churches have existed since
  the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:42-47).
• See, hear and read more.

The New Testament Church didn't focus and didn't need expensive buildings to meet in. They didn't need a paid staff. Collecting money to put into a building is not biblical. Collecting money to put into a building and programs puts people in need. It does more harm to the body of Christ, than good. (Acts 2:44-47)

**If you have or participate in a home Bible study or house/simple church, we would like to connect with you.
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