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b. Other community and mega-churches will “ adopt ” house churches and help them network together.

c. Other community churches will commission future house church leaders to join with house church networks in their region, p. 84.

d. Some house churches may become community churches , and some community churches may in fact become mega-churches , p. 84.

6. Kreider’s vision of church unity: “It is possible that some people may be in a house church network for a season, and then be called by God to become involved in a community church or a mega-church. It is the entire regional church that matters. I believe there will be freedom in the coming days in the hearts of God’s people to serve wherever God has called them,” Kreider, p. 84.

7. The role of leadership in house church networks, Kreider, pp. 85

a. Servant, fatherly, and godly are the standards of leadership in HCNs.

b. No vacuum of leadership must be tolerated; elders were appointed in every church, teamwork is important, but God does call a primary leader of the team , p. 85.

c. Kreider’s view: HCNs without leaders, community and mega-churches with “heavy handed leadership,” p. 85