House churches: Intimacy to the maximum; For some worshipers who seek an intimate, specific mode of worship, the church is in the house.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: February 9, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Pamela Miller; Staff Writer

In a rented basement room in Golden Valley, a little church called Spirit in Action has made its home. Its first home was in a home.

In Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, members of a Christian network called Missio Dei share a house.

Beyond living-room origins, these two churches have little in common. They're two of an unknown number of Twin Cities-area house churches.

Like their flashier cousin, the emergent church, house churches spring from a yearning for intimacy and an aversion to hierarchy. Like emergent ...

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