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Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.</span> </a> </div> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefont/2021/12/creating-a-domestic-church/" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="headline">Creating a Domestic Church</span></a></h1> <div class="post-info by-line"> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></span> December 30, 2021 By <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefont/author/admin/"><span itemprop="author">Guest Contributor</span></a> </div> <div class="decorated-divider lg left"></div> <div class="image-container"> <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefont/2021/12/creating-a-domestic-church/"><img itemprop="image" class="no-lazy" src="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wp-content/themes/Patheos%20TwentySeventeen/assets/images/default-thumbs/default-img-3-green.jpg" width="800" height="600" /></a> </div> <div class="entry-content clearfix overflow-text" itemprop="description"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p>The domestic church cannot be overestimated. 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