Custom and Command, author Stan Firth.

This review is about a booklet expressing a false ecclesiology -- or view of the church. This little booklet has had its influence, and its thesis is accepted by many in the "house church movement" in the UK and farther afield. But it is spiritually anarchic. Firth's thesis undermines the necessity of regular corporate worship and the preaching and offices in the church. Firth believes that there is need of a "new breed of Christians," functioning in an unstructured church lifestyle. He...