Why Do We Need to Become Home Church Christians?
I came across the born again experience 46 years ago.
The first time you are introduced it was always in the context of church not home.
Home church was not introduced.
You are excited and full of joy.
You found something new and you did not know about it before.
What you found is good beyond any description.
It is the best thing that ever happened to you.
I felt all my sadness left me.
I felt burdens lift off life.
I was relieved of all guilt and fear of punishment for sin.
The above described feeling is half emotional and half intellectual.
My mind grasped all the facts of the redeeming work of Christ and emotionally it celebrated it in my life.
So what is wrong with being emotional, nothing except that it does not last long? The intellectual awareness is week when you are challenged.
I did not know home church experience.
I found that when you surrounded with fellow Christian believers, there is no challenge and emotional experience is very real and quiet enjoyable.
It is when you are not with other believers that you get into trouble, both in the mind and emotions.
The heart seems to work in cooperation with the mind and emotions.
The soul suffered or the spirit suffered or is it a spiritual experience or just emotional? So I became confused as to why the feelings of good and bad alternated in my life.
I began to suspect the church and the believers meetings were the cause.
So I retreated slowly from going to church and meeting believers in the church setting or prayer meetings or bible studies for a time.
The home church would have solved all my problems, if I walked in that light then.
No, I walked after the leaders and Christians who showed me the wrong way and wrong institutions to be in.
The churches of my day did not help me know God.
I was confused and unhappy.
I could not understand I why sinned after coming God.
I did not know why I could not obey God completely.
I did blame the devil for everything.
But the devil did not mind.
He was happy about my confusion.
He wanted me unhappy even after I knew God.
Why could the churches not help? All the help I got from them was to read the bible more, pray, go to church, attend all the meetings and give tithe.
All along what I was missing was the real fellowship of a true believer who walked with God.
I needed a home church with a true fellowship.
The first time you are introduced it was always in the context of church not home.
Home church was not introduced.
You are excited and full of joy.
You found something new and you did not know about it before.
What you found is good beyond any description.
It is the best thing that ever happened to you.
I felt all my sadness left me.
I felt burdens lift off life.
I was relieved of all guilt and fear of punishment for sin.
The above described feeling is half emotional and half intellectual.
My mind grasped all the facts of the redeeming work of Christ and emotionally it celebrated it in my life.
So what is wrong with being emotional, nothing except that it does not last long? The intellectual awareness is week when you are challenged.
I did not know home church experience.
I found that when you surrounded with fellow Christian believers, there is no challenge and emotional experience is very real and quiet enjoyable.
It is when you are not with other believers that you get into trouble, both in the mind and emotions.
The heart seems to work in cooperation with the mind and emotions.
The soul suffered or the spirit suffered or is it a spiritual experience or just emotional? So I became confused as to why the feelings of good and bad alternated in my life.
I began to suspect the church and the believers meetings were the cause.
So I retreated slowly from going to church and meeting believers in the church setting or prayer meetings or bible studies for a time.
The home church would have solved all my problems, if I walked in that light then.
No, I walked after the leaders and Christians who showed me the wrong way and wrong institutions to be in.
The churches of my day did not help me know God.
I was confused and unhappy.
I could not understand I why sinned after coming God.
I did not know why I could not obey God completely.
I did blame the devil for everything.
But the devil did not mind.
He was happy about my confusion.
He wanted me unhappy even after I knew God.
Why could the churches not help? All the help I got from them was to read the bible more, pray, go to church, attend all the meetings and give tithe.
All along what I was missing was the real fellowship of a true believer who walked with God.
I needed a home church with a true fellowship.
