House-Church Movement 1 In 5 American Adults ...

House-Church Movement 1 in 5 American adults attends a house church at least once a month, (if a small group counts as a church). The Barna Group estimates 70 million Americans regularly attend or have “experimented with” a house church. More than 20 million adults attend home churches each week, in a month it’s probably 43 million. During the 1970s, there was a rapid proliferation of house churches in the UK that later evolved into larger, more traditional church bodies. In communist countries like China, Christians have used an underground home-church model for years. Experts estimate that 80 million Chinese Christians gather in homes each week. Home church was the only church for early Christians. Those most likely to attend a house church are men, home-school families, residents of the West and minorities. (Associated Baptist Press 7/6/06)