So
last week's meetings with our pastor and Eric Vaughn (a local minister working on planting house-churches in our area) went very well. Everything seems to confirm that God is really working and leading in this direction.
Being used by God as he directs is rather encouraging to me as for a number of years I have been content to "sit on the sidelines" of Christianity and not truly be open to God's leading. However, over the past six months God has used a number of circumstances to change my attitudes and my desires. I'm so thankful he never gives up working on us!
This Friday we are going to host a dinner and game night at our home. At God's direction I have called and invited a number of families who have been our friends over the years. Some are believers, some are not. Only a few already attend church with regularity. I hope to discuss this new family/small-group approach to Church with them on Friday evening in hopes that God is leading some of them to "join in". Depending on how God leads we may try to hold our first "church meeting" on Sunday evening.
Pray that God will soften the hearts of both the believers and unbelievers who will be gathering in our home Friday evening and make them receptive to His will, wherever He may lead.
So
last week's meetings with our pastor and Eric Vaughn (a local minister working on planting house-churches in our area) went very well. Everything seems to confirm that God is really working and leading in this direction.
Being used by God as he directs is rather encouraging to me as for a number of years I have been content to "sit on the sidelines" of Christianity and not truly be open to God's leading. However, over the past six months God has used a number of circumstances to change my attitudes and my desires. I'm so thankful he never gives up working on us!
This Friday we are going to host a dinner and game night at our home. At God's direction I have called and invited a number of families who have been our friends over the years. Some are believers, some are not. Only a few already attend church with regularity. I hope to discuss this new family/small-group approach to Church with them on Friday evening in hopes that God is leading some of them to "join in". Depending on how God leads we may try to hold our first "church meeting" on Sunday evening.
Pray that God will soften the hearts of both the believers and unbelievers who will be gathering in our home Friday evening and make them receptive to His will, wherever He may lead.
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