Thanks everyone,
Joyce, what's the LOF series?
For the rest of you, let me encourage you. I am absolutely confident that my group wasn't drawn together by accident. In Auckland they say that on any given sunday there are over 20,000 people church hopping. There must be the same if not more of people who used to be in church but left for whatever offence or disappointment. I am reminded of what God said to Elijah that even if Elijah felt alone, there was still 7000 who had not bent the knee to Baal. I am positive that there are more of us out there than we think. The key I believe is that it is the Lord who will build his church. Not me, and it is He who draws. I don't know the size of the cities or towns that you all live in but there are people out there who need the fellowship of the truth. We as a group have been praying for them even though they're not with us yet. We had to go through our own journeys to get where we are & so do they.
When we first started talking about meeting we felt a burden to try & do something in the mistaken belief that it was all up to us to make it happen, to get the converts in. At the beginning all we really did was talk about what was wrong with the church & we sure had a degree of smugness & arrogance. The Lord quickly took care of that once we started praying. Hahaha. All the things I though I knew. When I look back I now know I really knew nothing. hahaha. I no longer worry about what's wrong with the church. They believe only what they are taught. It takes revelation from the Father to come into what we have come into and there must be a grieving process as there is a death. A death of what we knew & where we thought we had come from. Very few people are at that place now. That's why they call it a remnant or an elect. But we still need to step out & take a chance. To sow a little. Talk to others & see how they respond. If they have a love for the truth & God is drawing them then they will respond positively.
Pray for God to draw you together with others in your area. He will build his church. The Father is waiting for a people who will be obedient, who have a love for the truth & who desire to be made into the new wineskin's that can be filled with his 'Christos'. Those who are willing to die to the flesh & the carnal & who will put on the mind of Christ. It's not in us to do that in our own strength but we have noticed the changes in our own characters as we have prayed. It is very noticeable.
I see things so differently now & with far more clarity.
Johnny, Eric & I will start praying for those of you who are isolated from other believers & will ask God to draw you together with others in your area. Please let us know when these good things happen. I am convinced that he will answer our prayers. It's an exciting day to live in.
God Bless
Greg
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