Comments on: The Secrets of the Early Church http://johnwatilo.com/blog/living/the-secrets-of-the-early-church songs and other stuff 97% ad-free! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:44:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: royaldghtr http://johnwatilo.com/blog/living/the-secrets-of-the-early-church#comment-8 Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:01:37 +0000 http://johnwatilo.com/blog/living/the-secrets-of-the-early-church#comment-8 It strikes a deep chord in me as well. Haven't read the document in its entirity, but skipped around to see what he had to say on certain issues. One point I do agree with is the fact that the church of Acts did meet together in each other's homes and fellowship together. This is almost a lost art in the United States today. I long for the day that Christians really know one another. Affluence has cursed us today. When people had less and lived much slower lives (on the farm) it was common to have a neighbor drop over for a visit. It wasn't considered rude either. It would have been considered rude to say you were busy that day and couldn't visit though. Perhaps God is allowing natural disasters lately, not as a curse but as a blessing to draw us closer to our fellowman. Just a thought. It has happened---people have been drawn closer together through tragedy. Though allowing disaster (from the author of disaster--the enemy) must be God's last resort. It just shows how dire the situation is. The situation of our estrangement from one another, that is. I would love to study the Bible together with other Christians in my home. The closest we have come to this in our home, is inviting others over to watch a downlink in our home and then having prayer and snacks together with converstion and Bible study. http://www.theappearing.com It strikes a deep chord in me as well. Haven’t read the document in its entirity, but skipped around to see what he had to say on certain issues.

One point I do agree with is the fact that the church of Acts did meet together in each other’s homes and fellowship together. This is almost a lost art in the United States today. I long for the day that Christians really know one another. Affluence has cursed us today. When people had less and lived much slower lives (on the farm) it was common to have a neighbor drop over for a visit. It wasn’t considered rude either. It would have been considered rude to say you were busy that day and couldn’t visit though.

Perhaps God is allowing natural disasters lately, not as a curse but as a blessing to draw us closer to our fellowman. Just a thought. It has happened—people have been drawn closer together through tragedy. Though allowing disaster (from the author of disaster–the enemy) must be God’s last resort. It just shows how dire the situation is. The situation of our estrangement from one another, that is.

I would love to study the Bible together with other Christians in my home. The closest we have come to this in our home, is inviting others over to watch a downlink in our home and then having prayer and snacks together with converstion and Bible study.

http://www.theappearing.com

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