That's what all the earliest leaders of these little house churches had to deal with.

这是早期这些小教堂的领导，必须处理的问题。

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House churches, he said, cannot afford to stay silent - one of the reasons he granted CNN rare access to film in his banned church.

家庭教堂，他补充道，不能保持沉默。这也是他邀请CNN访问被禁止的教堂的原因之一。

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It's no longer a bunch of simply house churches that are loosely federated by the fact that they send letters back and forth, and have emissaries between them.

它不再是几间零散的教堂，相互联系很松散，仅靠几封书信来往，偶尔派几个特使。

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This will be very important because Christians started out as house churches, and their house churches fit sometimes the model of a Greek ekklesia, an assembly, but sometimes the model of the Roman household.

说它重要是因为,基督教一开始时是家庭教会的形式，这种家庭教会有时符合希腊集会的模型，一种集会，但有时符合罗马家户的模型。

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Because most Protestant house churches are non-denominational (that is, not affiliated with Lutherans, Methodists and so on), they have no fixed liturgy or tradition.

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