Family worship gatherings where Dad preaches are "precious" when done on a daily basis, but they should not substitute the church, said the elders at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, N.C.
"When we talk about the home church movement we've lost what the definition of a church is," said Dan Horn, according the National Center for Family-Integrated Churches. "I think Calvin probably had it correct when he defined the church as having the preaching of the Word, there's a right administration of the sacraments and there's church discipline.
"The problem is most of the home churches that I know of failed in one or all of those, especially the last one."...
