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Critics fret that small, pastorless groups can become doctrinally or even socially unmoored. Thom Rainer, a Southern Baptist who has written extensively on church growth, says, "I have no problem with where a church meets, [but] I do think that there are some house churches that, in their desire to move in different directions, have perhaps moved from biblical accountability." In extreme circumstances home churches dominated by magnetic but unorthodox leaders can shade over the line into cults...
Applied Christianity. At first, her parishioners were highly skeptical of a woman preacher. Snorted one woman: "I'll go just once to see what she is like-but that's all." But she and others kept coming back for more. Preacher Henrichsen spread her work from two pastorless churches to seven. Applied Christianity on weekdays turned the trick more than Sunday sermons...
Father Vega joined the Mexican Catholics in 1945, and two years later went to the U.S. to study at the Episcopalians' Virginia Theological Seminary. Two years ago he took charge of the pastorless flock in McKinney...
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