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The choice of venue is dictated partly by whether you are part of an existing church or not, and partly by whether meeting in an existing church premises is seen as helping or hindering the mission, outreach and appeal of your service.
For groups wanting to put clear water between themselves and regular church, a church venue is the last thing they are likely to want. Whereas for groups who maintain a relationship with a church, meeting in the church might or might not be what they want to do. A number of alternative worship groups meet in pubs and bars, where non-church people feel less intimidated. Others meet quite happily in church buildings, often enjoying the ancient ambience that some classic church architecture can conjure up.
If you don't meet in a church, there may well be cost implications which you will have to face - which can be quite intimidating to a new group. Independent groups will need to be careful of accepting the hospitality of churches unless it is quite clear in the relationship that what you are doing is your own thing, and not seen by the host church as an 'outsourcing' of its own services.