i need church.
i believe people are the church, as my brother said but,
i see few problems there. It isn't very simple.
To be a church needs dedication and determination.
Awful lot of both. And it needs community.
I can't be church alone. So i need to step outside
of my comfort zone and share life to be church.
To seek others who are willing to be church with me.
By my experience, there are not many people
(even among christians ;)
who want to pray together when they meet friends.
Or read and talk about the word of God.
Those things are considerad as religious.
Even though you could
do both in m***nalds while eating b*gm*c.
i see few problems there. It isn't very simple.
To be a church needs dedication and determination.
Awful lot of both. And it needs community.
I can't be church alone. So i need to step outside
of my comfort zone and share life to be church.
To seek others who are willing to be church with me.
By my experience, there are not many people
(even among christians ;)
who want to pray together when they meet friends.
Or read and talk about the word of God.
Those things are considerad as religious.
Even though you could
do both in m***nalds while eating b*gm*c.
I dearly love both, especially when shared
with people i love.
(And not talking about b*gm*cs here but former two!)
And these things are what church is to me.
Simple as that. "They committed themselves
to the teaching of the apostles, the life together,
the common meal, and the prayers."
with people i love.
(And not talking about b*gm*cs here but former two!)
And these things are what church is to me.
Simple as that. "They committed themselves
to the teaching of the apostles, the life together,
the common meal, and the prayers."
Repeat: i think it takes a lot of determination to
dedicate one's life to a rythm of prayer, eating together,
reading Bible together...and so on.
But if you make it to work,
by grace of God,
it is the best way of the church in the world.
reading Bible together...and so on.
But if you make it to work,
by grace of God,
it is the best way of the church in the world.
Milk. If church only evangelizes, night after night,
same basic message, then there is a danger
of having a whole heap of christians who never
grow up.Evangelize every night, every meeting
and you always just milk-feed.But if you challenge
yourself and your church to live it up, in everyday life,
if you manage to dig deeper, challenge
of having a whole heap of christians who never
grow up.Evangelize every night, every meeting
and you always just milk-feed.But if you challenge
yourself and your church to live it up, in everyday life,
if you manage to dig deeper, challenge
yourself and your fellows to become a message,
then your lives become an evidence,
and people who don't know God are also challenged,
they are treated differently,
and they will see and
and they will see and
they will believe.
Be enthuastic, live, fail and learn
and breath God, live God and love God
with everything you are.
with everything you are.
In great commission Jesus did not say
go and evangelize, he said,
"Go out and train everyone you meet,
far and near, in this way of life, marking them
by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the
practice of all I have commanded you.
I'll be with you as you do this, day after day
after day, right up to the end of the age."
What is the best way to train?
What have been the life-changing experiences for you?
"Go out and train everyone you meet,
far and near, in this way of life, marking them
by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the
practice of all I have commanded you.
I'll be with you as you do this, day after day
after day, right up to the end of the age."
What is the best way to train?
What have been the life-changing experiences for you?
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