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6. Over 1,600 house churches can be found on Web pages in the US alone, p. 12.

F. HCNs as new wineskins are emerging “new Reformation” (transforming the form and look of the current church today). How?

1. Church shifted to homes rather than buildings

2. Actual churches in the homes, not Bible studies or cell groups

3. House churches will have their own elders, collect tithes and offerings, and leadership will be responsive to the Lord for the people, p. 12.

4. House churches will be committed to network with other house churches in their city or region (keeping them from “pride, exclusiveness, and heresy”), p. 13 ( how ?).

5. House churches will rapidly reproduce themselves, with no need to buy property, construct churches, gain staff, etc., p. 13.

G. HCNs are a form of contextualization in American subculture, especially for the young people of Generation X.

1. Contextualization: “adapting our forms of communication and expression of the Gospel to the cultural norms of the receiving culture”

2. Gen X characteristics of church, p. 13