Both views are wrong of course. Meeting in a home is certainly a valid and proper form of church, but believers who do should not look down upon those who don't. They should not consider themselves to be any better than those who don't. Just because house churches are valid does not invalidate other methods of being church. In this sense, there is no "more correct" method because all methods are equally acceptable and valid to God.

Sometimes believers develop a case of spiritual pride because they consider that they are doing it right and others are not so right. This kind of pride can work to undermine what God wants to do. Humility and acceptance of other believers is required, no matter what their method of doing church.

In James 4:6 it says that "God opposes the proud, but give grace to the humble." Whenever a church or group of believers is supportive and serves their fellow believers in another church with sincerity and love, even if their brothers do things in a different way, there is a blessing of grace that God imparts. However whenever a church comes to a place of superior thinking and starts to look down on fellow Christians considering them to be doing things in a substandard way, for example using litergy or singing hymns, then God is not able to give grace to those people.

Sadly this is what has been happening in Australia with the birth of house churches everywhere. Unfortunately many people who meet in house churches have developed superior thinking and have come to believe that only they are doing it right and that somehow they are more special than Christians who meet in the regular way.......................and at the same time they wonder why their house church struggles, or why God is not blessing what they are doing. Their pride is limiting what God wants to do.

There are also various ideas about how best to run house churches. Some people feel that house churches should not have a leader and that everyone is responsible for it to be effective, whilst other house churches do have a leader. Sometimes this has also resulted in spiritual pride each thinking that their method of holding house church is the "biblical" one. However it is really just a coverup for superior thinking and pride.

There is a great need to see that the Church today (the worldwide group of believers) is a "flexible wineskin." If it were not flexible it would not be able to contain the current moves of the Holy Spirit......but the fact that we are flexible and that there is give and take between believers means that the Holy Spirit is free to work in groups as He sees fit. We cannot turn any system of doing church into a series of rules..........it would no longer be flexible.

When Jesus came to earth he was obviously doing it right and could have easily looked down on everyone around him. He could have pointed out everyone's faults and been "on his high horse." However Jesus came and described himself with these words, "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you wil find rest for your souls." Matthew 11:29 Jesus however did not come with a superior attitude, but with a gentle one. This is the same attitude we must hold towards our brothers and sisters in the Lord, even if they don't do church in a way that we prefer.

Jesus also caught his disciples arguing one day about who was the greatest amongst themselves. His response was to teach them that the greatest in the Kingdom is the one who is childlike and who serves the others. Its obvious that to receive the greatest blessing on what we want to do for the Lord, we need to keep a soft and accepting heart towards our fellow believers. God does want us to all come to unity and our gentle and loving attitudes will be a great part of helping this come to pass.

Finally I need to make the point that there are "different horses for different courses." In other words, in some places it will be God's plan to do one thing, and in another place something else. What God blesses here, He may not bless there. So we are to listen to God and obey His voice about how we are to operate and serve Him, and do so in humility. This will always bring the greatest blessing.