Home Church

My darling and I have been to so many churches in our home town, but they all seem to lack substance, they either have jumped on one bandwagon or another, or they are stagnant. Currently the church we are attending is going through turmoil (as are so many churches here....definately feel as if they are all under attack)

Sermons lack substance, "bible studies" are either way off track or they follow a particular author rather than the bible, "small groups" become cliques in which we see these groups separated on Sunday mornings with no interaction with the rest of the congregation. Youth groups....nothing more than social events with little to no scripture (statisically these "graduates" are dropping out of churches as an alarming rate).

Some friends and my family longing for "meat" and biblical truth have started to meet once a month to worship God in our homes. We have only had one meeting so far for October and there was more truth spoken in those few hours than in a month of Sunday's at church. What are the seminaries teaching the pastors? To coddle, not to offend, to tickle the ears of the congregation....

In November, we shall meet at my home. We are going to listen to Voddie Baucham on "you tube", sing songs that truly praise God rather that focus on man in the God/Man relationships. After we have been fed by the word of God, we shall feed our bodies. I am cooking up a huge pot of chili and some rice, others are bringing "fixings" for the chili, another is bringing cornbread, another desert. I volunteer to do this thinking there would only be 12 total including us. This has now blossomed to 20! wow...

I have not had an open home before now, the house was a remodeling disaster....I will post on that later. We have not finished, but it is now the the point that it looks more like a home than a construction zone. This will be a new experience for me, however I know God is with us!

For now, this is a temporary thing as we pray over the church, praying God will correct it without the church crumbling, however, if the church fails, we will continue this and rotate homes each week.