Christian groups, and to use that understanding for analysis of various issues and texts.5 The starting point for modeling a house church is the host’s household. Even just the exercise of writing down the list of people one might expect in the household of someone with space to host a reasonable-sized group immediately makes us aware that there is quite a range of social situations within a household, and hence within even the most basic house church. This itself should affect the way in which we
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