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9. The importance of diversity: Whatever your calling do not persecute the next move of God to structure itself as the Holy Spirit is moving it, Kreider, p. 89.

a. “The church of today is a diverse one, and diversity is healthy. God is working through program designed churches, cell-based churches, community churches, mega-churches, and through house church networks,” Kreider, p. 89. b. “Let’s allow the house church networks to grow up alongside the community churches and the mega-churches in our communities. We need to see ourselves as a part of the regional church the Lord is raising up in these times,” Kreider, p. 89.

10. What a healthy house church is not!, p. 90

a. Not people who are disgruntled with the community or mega-church

b. Not an ingrown club of people who have forgotten the harvest

c. Not Christians who are independent and unwilling to submit to the recognized leaders of the body of Christ

d. Not groups of people who have been together for some time and have either not grown or barely grown all those years

e. Not groups of people “stagnant and sterilized” by the above reasons!, p. 90