The Church in Her House

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1879

The Church in Her House.

In the epistles of Paul we find frequent reference to family churches. Col. 4:15: “Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.” See also Rom. 16:5; 1 Cor. 16:19; Philem. 2. But this, it seems, is not to be confined to apostolic times. A sister writes us from Missouri:—

“My aged mother, myself, and my two children, are Seventh-day Adventists. We love the truths of the third angel’s message, and are trying to live them out. We are the only S. D. Adventists in our immediate neighborhood, hence have to constitute a little church of our own. We have family worship, and a regular weekly prayer-meeting which is a precious season.”