Friendly Atheist

I was just reading an article on a website called The Friendly Atheist dot com and it was talking about how a house church meeting “got shut down” in San Diego. Most people are saying they got shut down for religious reason because an officer dealing with the situation asked the couple who owned the home questions like “do you pray?” and “do you say praise the lord?”

I guess it was actually because the city got complaints because of parking issues and a neighbors friends car was hit by one the of the people who attended the church meeting. But the most intriguing thing to me was tht the writer of this article asked a question at the end. “At what point should a house church be considered a full-blown church? Is it a matter of people or money or something else entirely?”

Its funny to me that an atheist would ask a question like that because I feel it would be more appropriate coming from someone who believes in God. I think as christians we should ask ourselves what is it that really makes a church? one would hope the answer isn’t anything less than life changing.