A June 2006 Barna report estimates that about 70 million U.S. adults have experimented with house churches and that about 20 million - 9% of the adult population - attend a house church gathering in a typical week, compared with 1% a decade ago.
Among those interviewed for the local angle,
Debra Pitzo, 51, and her husband - who left the Catholic Church years ago on a journey that took them to Assembly of God and non-denominational churches - have been hosting their house church for seven years. They use the name Christian Net Works and have a Web site: www.christian-net-works.org. She likes the spontaneity and "not having to follow someone else's idea of what it is to serve the Lord."
The web site says the group is part of the development described in George Barna's book Revolution. The excerpt at the Barna site lists the "Affirmations of a Revolutionary", including
Absolute moral and spiritual truth exists, is knowable, and is intended for my life; it is accessible through the Bible.
Sounds like these groups would regard private interpretation as not a bug but a feature.
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