A Call Back to the Pentecost Pattern
This teaching is not about “church buildings vs. house churches,” nor is it saying that meeting in a dedicated building is wrong. Our modern cities, cultures, housing, and architecture are completely different from the first-century Greco-Roman world. Most of today’s homes simply cannot accommodate 70–150 people the way a wealthy believer’s courtyard-style domus could. The point has never been the location or the building. The point is the biblical pattern of how we gather: every-member participation under the headship of Jesus, for the equipping of the saints and the building up of the body in love (Eph 4:12–16). Whether that happens today in a school hall, warehouse, cathedral, large home, or any other space is secondary. […]