1.   Despite the recent successes of house churches and charismatic movements, the overall picture is unchanged.

2.   We see the resurgence in the new nonconformism of the house churches and sometimes in the charismatic movement.

3.   Yet foreign support can not justify persecution of house churches and other heterodox sects.

4.   And house churches are not solely an American phenomenon.

5.   But sometimes the strategy backfires when the cell groups become hatcheries for house churches.

6.   Forced out of the official seminary, Ms. Gou became more deeply involved with house churches, which are said to meet at hundreds of small sites around Beijing.

7.   In both cases, the leaders of the house churches were beaten and tortured and are still being held, he said.

8.   Last year, the members of his cell group cut their ties with their Baptist church and reconstituted themselves as an independent house church.

9.   So far, the house church here in Wilbraham is about as disruptive to neighbors as a Sunday brunch.

10.   That was the setting in the house churches of early Christianity.