The House Church is the assembling of fellow Christian believers in a member's home. It was practiced in the early days of the Church, as cited in the Book of Acts. It is also a continuing phenomenon in the United States. the illegal house churches, however, in the former Soviet Union, received severe sanctions, even to the point where dwellings were bulldozed to the ground.
Because churches have to be registered with the state in the People's Republic of China, if one wants to avoid this potentially incrimination documentation, sometimes house churches are thereby formed. The congregants will risk arrest rather than agree to the state's required institutions' obedience to the Communist government as final authority (even over the reign of the Lord Jesus Christ). Many langhish to this day in prisons, where they are treated harshly as they continue to exercise their adamant faith, not unlike Watchman Nee.
The House Church can allow one the opportunity to avoid denominational ties involving adherence to doctrines knotted manytimes more to traditions than to truth. It also gives anitinerant's preacher his opportunity to minister with his charismatic gifts without subjection to rules of certain seminaries. These regulations if disobeyed by the denominationally licensed, can cause the loss of their official standing. | 
