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  1. Magnus van Füssen, missionaris in Zuid Beieren, die zorgde voor werkgelegenheid in de ertsmijnen, aan te roepen tegen oogziekten, Apostel van de Allgäu #heilig #inspiratie #geschiedenis #kerk #christendom kenteringen.nl/heilige-van-de-

  2. Magnus van Füssen, missionaris in Zuid Beieren, die zorgde voor werkgelegenheid in de ertsmijnen, aan te roepen tegen oogziekten, Apostel van de Allgäu #heilig #inspiratie #geschiedenis #kerk #christendom kenteringen.nl/heilige-van-de-

  3. Moeder Teresa, stichteres Missionarissen van de Naastenliefde, ontving Nobelprijs voor de Vrede, zette haar leven in voor de verschoppelingen in India, de ‘Engel van de sloppenwijken’, #heilig #inspiratie #geschiedenis #kerk #christendom kenteringen.nl/heilige-van-de-

  4. Moeder Teresa, stichteres Missionarissen van de Naastenliefde, ontving Nobelprijs voor de Vrede, zette haar leven in voor de verschoppelingen in India, de ‘Engel van de sloppenwijken’, #heilig #inspiratie #geschiedenis #kerk #christendom kenteringen.nl/heilige-van-de-

  5. Vandaag herdenken we de Poolse boerenfamilie Ulma, als eerste volledige gezin zalig verklaard; Józef en Wiktoria en hun 7 kinderen, Rechtvaardigen onder de Naties #heilig #inspiratie #geschiedenis #polen #woii #kerk #christendom kenteringen.nl/heilige-van-de-

  6. The Big Conversation – Christadelphians in the United Kingdom

    In the United Kingdom people may find several villages and towns where there reside Christadelphians,  a body of Christians who try to base their beliefs and practices wholly on the Bible, which they regard as God’s word. They try therefore to rid themselves of the various ideas and rituals which have attached themselves to Christendom over the last 2,000 years and to return to the beliefs and practices of the first century apostles.

    Being a group of people who want to follow the Nazarene Jew Jeshua, who did not want to do his own will, but always did the Will of his heavenly Father, they as the man born in Bethlehem, are living in this world but not wanting to be of this world following human traditions and human dogmas. That does not make them so popular, because people may look strange at those people who do not want to celebrate Halloween and other pagan festivities.

    Because the Christadelphians are a community without the trappings of elaborate buildings, priests or icons, their institutions and fellowship-rooms not be seen straight away. The outer sights are not important for the Christadelphians who prefer to give honour to God and show a deep respect for God’s word and love to have a strong sense of family and fellowship.

    On the above map you can see some of the more than 300 ecclesiae in Great Britain and Ireland. They were taken under the loop by brother Jon Downes who on the 10th of October asked

    What is happening?

    For him the present size & growth or non-growth of UK ecclesiae show there isn’t a, ‘No Change’ option

    It’s not that we aren’t trying!

    he said to about 350 Christadelphians present at Dudley college.

    In this world of figures, comparisons and evaluations it is all about numbers in graphics which have to show an up-going trend and reach high peaks. this for sure can not be said about our very small community. Lots of people may think when it is not big it has no value and can not be good. But people should look at the intrinsic value and to see what a group or church is believing, following up, and how they keep to what they preach. It is true that minorities do not exert influence, and that they should have to contend on the culture or the systems around it.

    Christadelphians do not fall in the temptation to pretend to be a majority, even if one is not. They do know they are just a little grain of sand in our religious world. But that does not mean that many more little grains can be put together with water and with clay form a nice vase. Though sometimes it can look like we are coming to sit more in an urn. Especially in Belgium we are in distress and can do with some support form abroad. Though looking at other countries can show us also how important it is to make more work of the announcing or making known of our society.

    All over the world people may not forget that the church of Jesus Christ is never a majority, in any fallen culture, even if we happen to outnumber every[one] else around us. They should come to see that the real church of God is the church of Christ were people are willing to follow Jesus his words, his teachings, but also his manners and his aspirations. It is a place where people are willing to share the agapè love of Christ, who was even willing to give his life for others, even for those who turned against him. Would we do that?

    Where Christian churches have held fast to the truth that the Holy Scriptures have been given by God as an authoritative and infallible rule of faith and practice, they have never wandered very seriously out of the right way. But when, on the other hand, reason has been exalted above revelation, and made the the exponent of revelation, all kinds of errors and mischiefs have been the result, and got many sorts of denominations which have lots of rituals people may like very much but which are not according to God’s Law. And that part is the most important in our building community. We should all try to live according God’s Law and love His Words more than the words of man.

    Unfortunately, lots of Christians do not closely follow the Bible today and prefer to join churches in which they can keep up their human traditions. They have changed things to how they want them to be.
    Since the times of Jesus, there have been small groups of people who believed what the Bible said. Many of these people were cruelly treated in times past as a result of their beliefs. Such believers united in the North of America when in 1864 broke out the Civil War. Dr. Thomas thought up the word “Christadelphian“, a name combining the name “Christ” with the Greek word “adelphi” meaning “brother”. So the name “Christadelphian” means “brothers and sisters in Christ“.

    Christadelphians are grateful to John Thomas for his efforts in searching out the message of the Bible. John Thomas was not a prophet or someone special. He read the Bible, just as we try to do. Christadelphians follow Jesus Christ, not John Thomas. Not following just one man or just one human organisation gives that we may have different ideas about certain things, but that doe snot mean we would not have union with each other, though we must agree that there are certain Christadelphian groups who shamefully do not want to have contact with other Christadelphians.  According to the Belgian Free Christadelphians this is also part of the reasons why it is so difficult to show the world a bigger group of religious people under one name: Christadelphians.

    Being joined together by our common faith in the Bible, and the way we live, we all should try to meet each other and have contact with each other as loving siblings. All being brothers and sisters in Christ. Though each “ecclesia” has to look after its own affairs, and choose members who determine arrangements and organise activities on behalf of their members they should feel that unity with Christ with other Christadelphians world wide and show the outside world that Jesus Christ is their head of each ecclesia.

    Living in this world we do agree that “It’s not about the numbers” … …but the “numbers tell a story”. And those numbers in west Europe may be alarming. Therefore there was the call to come thereto in the UK to discuss that matter of dwindling ciphers.

    Like any other western capitalist country in the UK Bible ownership and Bible knowledge has slumped, some english people also do find it a form of indoctrination when parents in their home pray and talk about God in front of their children of that child.

    Jon Downes presented the anxious members a snapshot of our society in the UK.

    and showed those present how a typical ecclesia looks like.

    When we look at the adult baptisms in our community from related people (3,5) and from non related
    (1.0) plus counting the (0.5) refellowshipping members, comparing them with the average of 10 people falling asleep and 2 people leaving the fellowship, we might say that such numbers bring the graphic line downwards.

    What might happen to the Christadelphian community in the United Kingdom when they do not something to change the coarse.

    happened.

    Therefore lets look at the United Kingdom as an example.

    what might this give to that community, where we find, like everywhere in the world members becoming older and dying, whilst the world is getting less interested in God and commandment.

    In case we can bring the Gospel of the Good News to many more ears, we should be able by a co-effort of preaching to increase the interest in God again and get again some people interested in joining a community of lovers of Christ and lovers of God.

    We must see that

    The lost are our hope

    and that there is good reason to try to reach the lost. We as brothers and sisters in Christ should love the people in the world so much that we will be offering some of our spare time for preaching work.

    We are the hope of the lost

    Luckily it is not all ad  or sad news.

    Good News!

    tells brother Downes is that we can look at

    • 120 baptisms a year (4 average sized ecclesias)
    • In the last 40 years, 39 new ecclesias. (Although 96 have closed & some were renamed).
    • In the last 15 years,1/4 of all baptisms from non Christadelphian backgrounds were by just 16 ecclesias. (Although 1/3 didn’t baptise any)
    • While many ecclesias are shrinking many are growing.
    • Numbers in Africa are growing!
    • Bible Learning Centres & Learning English are having a big impact

    Instead of going for Plan A is it not better that we go for Plan B?

    Plan A discussed at the Big Conversation of 2015 October 10 at Dudley college, UK
    • Current UK Christadelphian population of 8-8500 is based on 223 2015 ALS Diary returns on households & 178 2015 CCH survey returns. 10 Ecclesias had neither return and were estimated on previous diary returns.
    • 1985 to 2015 data based on records kept from the back of the Christadelphian, clearly subject to some error, gaps and misreporting. The last 12 months of Magazine entries were analysed separately and yielded results consistent with the records obtained.
    • Net loss of 120 per annum and the 10, 5, 1 ratio derived from average of last 10 years data. Approx 240 out and 120 in. These do not include brothers and sisters movement in and out of the UK.
    • Forecast from 2015 based on a linear continuation which could easily be a) more dramatic because of rapid closure of small ecclesias, ageing population, reduced home pool to draw from, fewer people to witness, higher rates of leaving the community b) less dramatic as in a smaller community there are fewer people falling asleep each year.
    How to cope with small churches getting growing ecclesiae

    One of the deceases of this time is that too many people want to enjoy their own little cocoon and not getting out of their comfort zone to share life with the spiritually needy. Those who call themselves Christian may not forget that this means to be a follower of Jesus Christ and demands also doing what he required from his followers. Jesus asked us to go out in the world to proclaim the Kingdom of God. We are to make every effort to bring hope and healing in Jesus name to those in need.

    We are to see that the tangible goodness of God flows into every nook and cranny of our communities – especially in those places where darkness seems to prevail. {Walking With Intentionality}

    +

    Preceding articles:

    Religious Practices around the world

    Manifests for believers #3 Catholic versus Protestant

    Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other

    The Ecclesia in the churchsystem

    Reasons to come together

    The Big Conversation

    The Big Conversation follow up

    Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church

    Engaging the culture without losing the gospel

    Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism

    Feeling-good, search for happiness and the church

    Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation

    Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building

    Belgian Christadelphians 2013 & 2014 in review

    Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings

    ++

    Additional reading:

    1. People are turning their back on Christianity
    2. Looking on what is going on and not being of it
    3. London an exaggerated microcosm of the UK at large
    4. Parents forbidden to pray in front of their children or to take them to church
    5. State and attitude of certain people to blame for radicalisation
    6. More Muslim children than Christian children growing up in our cities
    7. Will Islam conquer Europe
    8. Christianity to be enshrined
    9. Halloween custom of the nations
    10. Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
    11. A call easy to understand
    12. Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
    13. Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
    14. The meek one riding on an ass
    15. Do not be afraid to learn or to speak
    16. Reasons to come together
    17. Congregate, to gather, to meet
    18. Fellowship
    19. Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
    20. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
    21. Holiness and expression of worship coming from inside
    22. To find ways of Godly understanding
    23. Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
    24. Who are the honest ones?
    25. Certain people trying to stem freedom of speech
    26. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
    27. Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
    28. Religious Freedom in a Multicultural World
    29. Some christians do have problems with the Christian connection with Jews
    30. American atheists most religiously literate Americans
    31. Determine the drive
    32. Try driving forward instead of backwards
    33. Campbell, Thomas and Bijbelvorsers
    34. Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
    35. Wanting to know more about basic teachings of Christadelphianism
    36. Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
    37. Christadelphian people
    38. Who are Christadelphians
    39. What are Brothers in Christ
    40. Two new encyclopaedic articles
    41. Christadelphians today
    42. Keeping an ecclesia in modern times
    43. Small churches of the few Christadelphians
    44. Christianity to be enshrined
    45. Christianity is a love affair
    46. Intentions of an Ecclesia
    47. Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
    48. Love for each other attracting others
    49. What makes a consecrated Christian
    50. A call easy to understand
    51. If you have integrity
    52. Work with joy and pray with love
    53. To know Christ is filling life with meaning
    54. The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen

    +++

    Other articles of interest:

    1. Walking in Total Dependence Upon God
    2. What is God’s Will For Your Life?
    3. On the Affirmation of Scripture
    4. A Snapshot of the Church in America
    5. a little church
    6. Four Pressing Needs in Rural Communities, and How the Church Should Respond
    7. If It’s All About Relationship…
    8. Leading a church is not a hands free exercise
    9. Walking With Intentionality
    10. Living Our Faith in a New Way
    11. What’s in It for Me?
    12. Deacon Selection In the Small Church
    13. Lord’s Day 10: God is in Control
    14. Just Try a Few Things
    15. “When Faith Goes, All Good Things Go”
    16. Growing Deep
    17. All the Wrong Reasons
    18. Little Church
    19. Leading Change
    20. Small Groups & Grow A Small Church by Multiplying Its Small Groups
    21. Living well
    22. Blessed by His Hand
    23. Encouragement for the Small
    24. How Did You Get Here?
    25. How to Impersonate a Big Church
    26. What Do You Do Well?
    27. Recognize the Facts
    28. What are your top two struggles?
    29. The Best Thing You Can Do
    30. On the road to sainthood and not silent about it
    31. Incognito Zone: Where the Church Is Booming
    32. House Church Reaches Out to Atheists, Agnostics in California
    33. The one religion that’s not part of my spiritual quest
    34. Six Ways Not to Forsake the Assembly
    35. Tent Making
    36. Journey On The Narrow Path

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  7. The Big Conversation – Christadelphians in the United Kingdom

    In the United Kingdom people may find several villages and towns where there reside Christadelphians,  a body of Christians who try to base their beliefs and practices wholly on the Bible, which they regard as God’s word. They try therefore to rid themselves of the various ideas and rituals which have attached themselves to Christendom over the last 2,000 years and to return to the beliefs and practices of the first century apostles.

    Being a group of people who want to follow the Nazarene Jew Jeshua, who did not want to do his own will, but always did the Will of his heavenly Father, they as the man born in Bethlehem, are living in this world but not wanting to be of this world following human traditions and human dogmas. That does not make them so popular, because people may look strange at those people who do not want to celebrate Halloween and other pagan festivities.

    Because the Christadelphians are a community without the trappings of elaborate buildings, priests or icons, their institutions and fellowship-rooms not be seen straight away. The outer sights are not important for the Christadelphians who prefer to give honour to God and show a deep respect for God’s word and love to have a strong sense of family and fellowship.

    On the above map you can see some of the more than 300 ecclesiae in Great Britain and Ireland. They were taken under the loop by brother Jon Downes who on the 10th of October asked

    What is happening?

    For him the present size & growth or non-growth of UK ecclesiae show there isn’t a, ‘No Change’ option

    It’s not that we aren’t trying!

    he said to about 350 Christadelphians present at Dudley college.

    In this world of figures, comparisons and evaluations it is all about numbers in graphics which have to show an up-going trend and reach high peaks. this for sure can not be said about our very small community. Lots of people may think when it is not big it has no value and can not be good. But people should look at the intrinsic value and to see what a group or church is believing, following up, and how they keep to what they preach. It is true that minorities do not exert influence, and that they should have to contend on the culture or the systems around it.

    Christadelphians do not fall in the temptation to pretend to be a majority, even if one is not. They do know they are just a little grain of sand in our religious world. But that does not mean that many more little grains can be put together with water and with clay form a nice vase. Though sometimes it can look like we are coming to sit more in an urn. Especially in Belgium we are in distress and can do with some support form abroad. Though looking at other countries can show us also how important it is to make more work of the announcing or making known of our society.

    All over the world people may not forget that the church of Jesus Christ is never a majority, in any fallen culture, even if we happen to outnumber every[one] else around us. They should come to see that the real church of God is the church of Christ were people are willing to follow Jesus his words, his teachings, but also his manners and his aspirations. It is a place where people are willing to share the agapè love of Christ, who was even willing to give his life for others, even for those who turned against him. Would we do that?

    Where Christian churches have held fast to the truth that the Holy Scriptures have been given by God as an authoritative and infallible rule of faith and practice, they have never wandered very seriously out of the right way. But when, on the other hand, reason has been exalted above revelation, and made the the exponent of revelation, all kinds of errors and mischiefs have been the result, and got many sorts of denominations which have lots of rituals people may like very much but which are not according to God’s Law. And that part is the most important in our building community. We should all try to live according God’s Law and love His Words more than the words of man.

    Unfortunately, lots of Christians do not closely follow the Bible today and prefer to join churches in which they can keep up their human traditions. They have changed things to how they want them to be.
    Since the times of Jesus, there have been small groups of people who believed what the Bible said. Many of these people were cruelly treated in times past as a result of their beliefs. Such believers united in the North of America when in 1864 broke out the Civil War. Dr. Thomas thought up the word “Christadelphian“, a name combining the name “Christ” with the Greek word “adelphi” meaning “brother”. So the name “Christadelphian” means “brothers and sisters in Christ“.

    Christadelphians are grateful to John Thomas for his efforts in searching out the message of the Bible. John Thomas was not a prophet or someone special. He read the Bible, just as we try to do. Christadelphians follow Jesus Christ, not John Thomas. Not following just one man or just one human organisation gives that we may have different ideas about certain things, but that doe snot mean we would not have union with each other, though we must agree that there are certain Christadelphian groups who shamefully do not want to have contact with other Christadelphians.  According to the Belgian Free Christadelphians this is also part of the reasons why it is so difficult to show the world a bigger group of religious people under one name: Christadelphians.

    Being joined together by our common faith in the Bible, and the way we live, we all should try to meet each other and have contact with each other as loving siblings. All being brothers and sisters in Christ. Though each “ecclesia” has to look after its own affairs, and choose members who determine arrangements and organise activities on behalf of their members they should feel that unity with Christ with other Christadelphians world wide and show the outside world that Jesus Christ is their head of each ecclesia.

    Living in this world we do agree that “It’s not about the numbers” … …but the “numbers tell a story”. And those numbers in west Europe may be alarming. Therefore there was the call to come thereto in the UK to discuss that matter of dwindling ciphers.

    Like any other western capitalist country in the UK Bible ownership and Bible knowledge has slumped, some english people also do find it a form of indoctrination when parents in their home pray and talk about God in front of their children of that child.

    Jon Downes presented the anxious members a snapshot of our society in the UK.

    and showed those present how a typical ecclesia looks like.

    When we look at the adult baptisms in our community from related people (3,5) and from non related
    (1.0) plus counting the (0.5) refellowshipping members, comparing them with the average of 10 people falling asleep and 2 people leaving the fellowship, we might say that such numbers bring the graphic line downwards.

    What might happen to the Christadelphian community in the United Kingdom when they do not something to change the coarse.

    happened.

    Therefore lets look at the United Kingdom as an example.

    what might this give to that community, where we find, like everywhere in the world members becoming older and dying, whilst the world is getting less interested in God and commandment.

    In case we can bring the Gospel of the Good News to many more ears, we should be able by a co-effort of preaching to increase the interest in God again and get again some people interested in joining a community of lovers of Christ and lovers of God.

    We must see that

    The lost are our hope

    and that there is good reason to try to reach the lost. We as brothers and sisters in Christ should love the people in the world so much that we will be offering some of our spare time for preaching work.

    We are the hope of the lost

    Luckily it is not all ad  or sad news.

    Good News!

    tells brother Downes is that we can look at

    • 120 baptisms a year (4 average sized ecclesias)
    • In the last 40 years, 39 new ecclesias. (Although 96 have closed & some were renamed).
    • In the last 15 years,1/4 of all baptisms from non Christadelphian backgrounds were by just 16 ecclesias. (Although 1/3 didn’t baptise any)
    • While many ecclesias are shrinking many are growing.
    • Numbers in Africa are growing!
    • Bible Learning Centres & Learning English are having a big impact

    Instead of going for Plan A is it not better that we go for Plan B?

    Plan A discussed at the Big Conversation of 2015 October 10 at Dudley college, UK
    • Current UK Christadelphian population of 8-8500 is based on 223 2015 ALS Diary returns on households & 178 2015 CCH survey returns. 10 Ecclesias had neither return and were estimated on previous diary returns.
    • 1985 to 2015 data based on records kept from the back of the Christadelphian, clearly subject to some error, gaps and misreporting. The last 12 months of Magazine entries were analysed separately and yielded results consistent with the records obtained.
    • Net loss of 120 per annum and the 10, 5, 1 ratio derived from average of last 10 years data. Approx 240 out and 120 in. These do not include brothers and sisters movement in and out of the UK.
    • Forecast from 2015 based on a linear continuation which could easily be a) more dramatic because of rapid closure of small ecclesias, ageing population, reduced home pool to draw from, fewer people to witness, higher rates of leaving the community b) less dramatic as in a smaller community there are fewer people falling asleep each year.
    How to cope with small churches getting growing ecclesiae

    One of the deceases of this time is that too many people want to enjoy their own little cocoon and not getting out of their comfort zone to share life with the spiritually needy. Those who call themselves Christian may not forget that this means to be a follower of Jesus Christ and demands also doing what he required from his followers. Jesus asked us to go out in the world to proclaim the Kingdom of God. We are to make every effort to bring hope and healing in Jesus name to those in need.

    We are to see that the tangible goodness of God flows into every nook and cranny of our communities – especially in those places where darkness seems to prevail. {Walking With Intentionality}

    +

    Preceding articles:

    Religious Practices around the world

    Manifests for believers #3 Catholic versus Protestant

    Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other

    The Ecclesia in the churchsystem

    Reasons to come together

    The Big Conversation

    The Big Conversation follow up

    Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church

    Engaging the culture without losing the gospel

    Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism

    Feeling-good, search for happiness and the church

    Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation

    Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building

    Belgian Christadelphians 2013 & 2014 in review

    Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings

    ++

    Additional reading:

    1. People are turning their back on Christianity
    2. Looking on what is going on and not being of it
    3. London an exaggerated microcosm of the UK at large
    4. Parents forbidden to pray in front of their children or to take them to church
    5. State and attitude of certain people to blame for radicalisation
    6. More Muslim children than Christian children growing up in our cities
    7. Will Islam conquer Europe
    8. Christianity to be enshrined
    9. Halloween custom of the nations
    10. Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
    11. A call easy to understand
    12. Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
    13. Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
    14. The meek one riding on an ass
    15. Do not be afraid to learn or to speak
    16. Reasons to come together
    17. Congregate, to gather, to meet
    18. Fellowship
    19. Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
    20. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
    21. Holiness and expression of worship coming from inside
    22. To find ways of Godly understanding
    23. Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
    24. Who are the honest ones?
    25. Certain people trying to stem freedom of speech
    26. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
    27. Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
    28. Religious Freedom in a Multicultural World
    29. Some christians do have problems with the Christian connection with Jews
    30. American atheists most religiously literate Americans
    31. Determine the drive
    32. Try driving forward instead of backwards
    33. Campbell, Thomas and Bijbelvorsers
    34. Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
    35. Wanting to know more about basic teachings of Christadelphianism
    36. Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
    37. Christadelphian people
    38. Who are Christadelphians
    39. What are Brothers in Christ
    40. Two new encyclopaedic articles
    41. Christadelphians today
    42. Keeping an ecclesia in modern times
    43. Small churches of the few Christadelphians
    44. Christianity to be enshrined
    45. Christianity is a love affair
    46. Intentions of an Ecclesia
    47. Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
    48. Love for each other attracting others
    49. What makes a consecrated Christian
    50. A call easy to understand
    51. If you have integrity
    52. Work with joy and pray with love
    53. To know Christ is filling life with meaning
    54. The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen

    +++

    Other articles of interest:

    1. Walking in Total Dependence Upon God
    2. What is God’s Will For Your Life?
    3. On the Affirmation of Scripture
    4. A Snapshot of the Church in America
    5. a little church
    6. Four Pressing Needs in Rural Communities, and How the Church Should Respond
    7. If It’s All About Relationship…
    8. Leading a church is not a hands free exercise
    9. Walking With Intentionality
    10. Living Our Faith in a New Way
    11. What’s in It for Me?
    12. Deacon Selection In the Small Church
    13. Lord’s Day 10: God is in Control
    14. Just Try a Few Things
    15. “When Faith Goes, All Good Things Go”
    16. Growing Deep
    17. All the Wrong Reasons
    18. Little Church
    19. Leading Change
    20. Small Groups & Grow A Small Church by Multiplying Its Small Groups
    21. Living well
    22. Blessed by His Hand
    23. Encouragement for the Small
    24. How Did You Get Here?
    25. How to Impersonate a Big Church
    26. What Do You Do Well?
    27. Recognize the Facts
    28. What are your top two struggles?
    29. The Best Thing You Can Do
    30. On the road to sainthood and not silent about it
    31. Incognito Zone: Where the Church Is Booming
    32. House Church Reaches Out to Atheists, Agnostics in California
    33. The one religion that’s not part of my spiritual quest
    34. Six Ways Not to Forsake the Assembly
    35. Tent Making
    36. Journey On The Narrow Path

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  8. The Big Conversation – Christadelphians in the United Kingdom

    In the United Kingdom people may find several villages and towns where there reside Christadelphians,  a body of Christians who try to base their beliefs and practices wholly on the Bible, which they regard as God’s word. They try therefore to rid themselves of the various ideas and rituals which have attached themselves to Christendom over the last 2,000 years and to return to the beliefs and practices of the first century apostles.

    Being a group of people who want to follow the Nazarene Jew Jeshua, who did not want to do his own will, but always did the Will of his heavenly Father, they as the man born in Bethlehem, are living in this world but not wanting to be of this world following human traditions and human dogmas. That does not make them so popular, because people may look strange at those people who do not want to celebrate Halloween and other pagan festivities.

    Because the Christadelphians are a community without the trappings of elaborate buildings, priests or icons, their institutions and fellowship-rooms not be seen straight away. The outer sights are not important for the Christadelphians who prefer to give honour to God and show a deep respect for God’s word and love to have a strong sense of family and fellowship.

    On the above map you can see some of the more than 300 ecclesiae in Great Britain and Ireland. They were taken under the loop by brother Jon Downes who on the 10th of October asked

    What is happening?

    For him the present size & growth or non-growth of UK ecclesiae show there isn’t a, ‘No Change’ option

    It’s not that we aren’t trying!

    he said to about 350 Christadelphians present at Dudley college.

    In this world of figures, comparisons and evaluations it is all about numbers in graphics which have to show an up-going trend and reach high peaks. this for sure can not be said about our very small community. Lots of people may think when it is not big it has no value and can not be good. But people should look at the intrinsic value and to see what a group or church is believing, following up, and how they keep to what they preach. It is true that minorities do not exert influence, and that they should have to contend on the culture or the systems around it.

    Christadelphians do not fall in the temptation to pretend to be a majority, even if one is not. They do know they are just a little grain of sand in our religious world. But that does not mean that many more little grains can be put together with water and with clay form a nice vase. Though sometimes it can look like we are coming to sit more in an urn. Especially in Belgium we are in distress and can do with some support form abroad. Though looking at other countries can show us also how important it is to make more work of the announcing or making known of our society.

    All over the world people may not forget that the church of Jesus Christ is never a majority, in any fallen culture, even if we happen to outnumber every[one] else around us. They should come to see that the real church of God is the church of Christ were people are willing to follow Jesus his words, his teachings, but also his manners and his aspirations. It is a place where people are willing to share the agapè love of Christ, who was even willing to give his life for others, even for those who turned against him. Would we do that?

    Where Christian churches have held fast to the truth that the Holy Scriptures have been given by God as an authoritative and infallible rule of faith and practice, they have never wandered very seriously out of the right way. But when, on the other hand, reason has been exalted above revelation, and made the the exponent of revelation, all kinds of errors and mischiefs have been the result, and got many sorts of denominations which have lots of rituals people may like very much but which are not according to God’s Law. And that part is the most important in our building community. We should all try to live according God’s Law and love His Words more than the words of man.

    Unfortunately, lots of Christians do not closely follow the Bible today and prefer to join churches in which they can keep up their human traditions. They have changed things to how they want them to be.
    Since the times of Jesus, there have been small groups of people who believed what the Bible said. Many of these people were cruelly treated in times past as a result of their beliefs. Such believers united in the North of America when in 1864 broke out the Civil War. Dr. Thomas thought up the word “Christadelphian“, a name combining the name “Christ” with the Greek word “adelphi” meaning “brother”. So the name “Christadelphian” means “brothers and sisters in Christ“.

    Christadelphians are grateful to John Thomas for his efforts in searching out the message of the Bible. John Thomas was not a prophet or someone special. He read the Bible, just as we try to do. Christadelphians follow Jesus Christ, not John Thomas. Not following just one man or just one human organisation gives that we may have different ideas about certain things, but that doe snot mean we would not have union with each other, though we must agree that there are certain Christadelphian groups who shamefully do not want to have contact with other Christadelphians.  According to the Belgian Free Christadelphians this is also part of the reasons why it is so difficult to show the world a bigger group of religious people under one name: Christadelphians.

    Being joined together by our common faith in the Bible, and the way we live, we all should try to meet each other and have contact with each other as loving siblings. All being brothers and sisters in Christ. Though each “ecclesia” has to look after its own affairs, and choose members who determine arrangements and organise activities on behalf of their members they should feel that unity with Christ with other Christadelphians world wide and show the outside world that Jesus Christ is their head of each ecclesia.

    Living in this world we do agree that “It’s not about the numbers” … …but the “numbers tell a story”. And those numbers in west Europe may be alarming. Therefore there was the call to come thereto in the UK to discuss that matter of dwindling ciphers.

    Like any other western capitalist country in the UK Bible ownership and Bible knowledge has slumped, some english people also do find it a form of indoctrination when parents in their home pray and talk about God in front of their children of that child.

    Jon Downes presented the anxious members a snapshot of our society in the UK.

    and showed those present how a typical ecclesia looks like.

    When we look at the adult baptisms in our community from related people (3,5) and from non related
    (1.0) plus counting the (0.5) refellowshipping members, comparing them with the average of 10 people falling asleep and 2 people leaving the fellowship, we might say that such numbers bring the graphic line downwards.

    What might happen to the Christadelphian community in the United Kingdom when they do not something to change the coarse.

    happened.

    Therefore lets look at the United Kingdom as an example.

    what might this give to that community, where we find, like everywhere in the world members becoming older and dying, whilst the world is getting less interested in God and commandment.

    In case we can bring the Gospel of the Good News to many more ears, we should be able by a co-effort of preaching to increase the interest in God again and get again some people interested in joining a community of lovers of Christ and lovers of God.

    We must see that

    The lost are our hope

    and that there is good reason to try to reach the lost. We as brothers and sisters in Christ should love the people in the world so much that we will be offering some of our spare time for preaching work.

    We are the hope of the lost

    Luckily it is not all ad  or sad news.

    Good News!

    tells brother Downes is that we can look at

    • 120 baptisms a year (4 average sized ecclesias)
    • In the last 40 years, 39 new ecclesias. (Although 96 have closed & some were renamed).
    • In the last 15 years,1/4 of all baptisms from non Christadelphian backgrounds were by just 16 ecclesias. (Although 1/3 didn’t baptise any)
    • While many ecclesias are shrinking many are growing.
    • Numbers in Africa are growing!
    • Bible Learning Centres & Learning English are having a big impact

    Instead of going for Plan A is it not better that we go for Plan B?

    Plan A discussed at the Big Conversation of 2015 October 10 at Dudley college, UK
    • Current UK Christadelphian population of 8-8500 is based on 223 2015 ALS Diary returns on households & 178 2015 CCH survey returns. 10 Ecclesias had neither return and were estimated on previous diary returns.
    • 1985 to 2015 data based on records kept from the back of the Christadelphian, clearly subject to some error, gaps and misreporting. The last 12 months of Magazine entries were analysed separately and yielded results consistent with the records obtained.
    • Net loss of 120 per annum and the 10, 5, 1 ratio derived from average of last 10 years data. Approx 240 out and 120 in. These do not include brothers and sisters movement in and out of the UK.
    • Forecast from 2015 based on a linear continuation which could easily be a) more dramatic because of rapid closure of small ecclesias, ageing population, reduced home pool to draw from, fewer people to witness, higher rates of leaving the community b) less dramatic as in a smaller community there are fewer people falling asleep each year.
    How to cope with small churches getting growing ecclesiae

    One of the deceases of this time is that too many people want to enjoy their own little cocoon and not getting out of their comfort zone to share life with the spiritually needy. Those who call themselves Christian may not forget that this means to be a follower of Jesus Christ and demands also doing what he required from his followers. Jesus asked us to go out in the world to proclaim the Kingdom of God. We are to make every effort to bring hope and healing in Jesus name to those in need.

    We are to see that the tangible goodness of God flows into every nook and cranny of our communities – especially in those places where darkness seems to prevail. {Walking With Intentionality}

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    Preceding articles:

    Religious Practices around the world

    Manifests for believers #3 Catholic versus Protestant

    Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other

    The Ecclesia in the churchsystem

    Reasons to come together

    The Big Conversation

    The Big Conversation follow up

    Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church

    Engaging the culture without losing the gospel

    Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism

    Feeling-good, search for happiness and the church

    Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation

    Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building

    Belgian Christadelphians 2013 & 2014 in review

    Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings

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    Additional reading:

    1. People are turning their back on Christianity
    2. Looking on what is going on and not being of it
    3. London an exaggerated microcosm of the UK at large
    4. Parents forbidden to pray in front of their children or to take them to church
    5. State and attitude of certain people to blame for radicalisation
    6. More Muslim children than Christian children growing up in our cities
    7. Will Islam conquer Europe
    8. Christianity to be enshrined
    9. Halloween custom of the nations
    10. Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
    11. A call easy to understand
    12. Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
    13. Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
    14. The meek one riding on an ass
    15. Do not be afraid to learn or to speak
    16. Reasons to come together
    17. Congregate, to gather, to meet
    18. Fellowship
    19. Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
    20. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
    21. Holiness and expression of worship coming from inside
    22. To find ways of Godly understanding
    23. Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
    24. Who are the honest ones?
    25. Certain people trying to stem freedom of speech
    26. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
    27. Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
    28. Religious Freedom in a Multicultural World
    29. Some christians do have problems with the Christian connection with Jews
    30. American atheists most religiously literate Americans
    31. Determine the drive
    32. Try driving forward instead of backwards
    33. Campbell, Thomas and Bijbelvorsers
    34. Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
    35. Wanting to know more about basic teachings of Christadelphianism
    36. Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
    37. Christadelphian people
    38. Who are Christadelphians
    39. What are Brothers in Christ
    40. Two new encyclopaedic articles
    41. Christadelphians today
    42. Keeping an ecclesia in modern times
    43. Small churches of the few Christadelphians
    44. Christianity to be enshrined
    45. Christianity is a love affair
    46. Intentions of an Ecclesia
    47. Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
    48. Love for each other attracting others
    49. What makes a consecrated Christian
    50. A call easy to understand
    51. If you have integrity
    52. Work with joy and pray with love
    53. To know Christ is filling life with meaning
    54. The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen

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    Other articles of interest:

    1. Walking in Total Dependence Upon God
    2. What is God’s Will For Your Life?
    3. On the Affirmation of Scripture
    4. A Snapshot of the Church in America
    5. a little church
    6. Four Pressing Needs in Rural Communities, and How the Church Should Respond
    7. If It’s All About Relationship…
    8. Leading a church is not a hands free exercise
    9. Walking With Intentionality
    10. Living Our Faith in a New Way
    11. What’s in It for Me?
    12. Deacon Selection In the Small Church
    13. Lord’s Day 10: God is in Control
    14. Just Try a Few Things
    15. “When Faith Goes, All Good Things Go”
    16. Growing Deep
    17. All the Wrong Reasons
    18. Little Church
    19. Leading Change
    20. Small Groups & Grow A Small Church by Multiplying Its Small Groups
    21. Living well
    22. Blessed by His Hand
    23. Encouragement for the Small
    24. How Did You Get Here?
    25. How to Impersonate a Big Church
    26. What Do You Do Well?
    27. Recognize the Facts
    28. What are your top two struggles?
    29. The Best Thing You Can Do
    30. On the road to sainthood and not silent about it
    31. Incognito Zone: Where the Church Is Booming
    32. House Church Reaches Out to Atheists, Agnostics in California
    33. The one religion that’s not part of my spiritual quest
    34. Six Ways Not to Forsake the Assembly
    35. Tent Making
    36. Journey On The Narrow Path

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  9. Counting sands and stars

    Sandy beach

    Those who go up in the mountains or just go out in the fields, now in Summer, may sit there at night and count the stars. Though both the stars in the sky and the particles of sand we may find on the beach are too numerous to count. However, there is a gigantic difference between the two.

    Sand: a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles. – Sand dunes in the Idehan Ubari, Libya.

    Grains of sand are tightly pressed and compacted one against the other to form a beach. Each star, on the other hand, is a world in itself. It can be separated from its nearest neighbour by trillions of miles.

    Moses tells God that the Jewish nation is too burdensome for him to carry alone. Why? Because they are comparable to the profusion of stars.

    Jehovah, the God of the believers used as slaves in Egypt were  multiplied by the Most High and had become like the stars of the heaven in number. (Deuteronomy 1:10)

    Deu 1:10-12 RNKJV  YHWH your Elohim hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.  (11)  (YHWH Elohim of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)  (12)  How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

    For Moses there was a burden so heavy as to produce weariness not because they were with many, but more because there was so much division between them. For Moses there may have been a similar problem as what we see today. We can find many people who say they love God, but look at that God in different ways and have different ways to serve Him. Some their worship is not liked by others because it goes against the rules made by God Himself.

    In Christendom we may see several ‘planets’ or ‘stars’, find a massive quantity like Moses found one that he could not alone lead them. He wasn’t overwhelmed by the number of people. Rather, the  problem was qualitative.

    Moses implied that if the Jews were spiritually and emotionally unified – were proximate to each other, like sand – their large population would not require arduous leadership.

    However, when there is a nation of people, each a star in his own right and alienated from others around him, leading them becomes nightmarish.

    Jonathan Hughes, rabbi of Richmond United Synagogue calls unto his co-believers saying

    As this mournful time of the Jewish year approaches in the run-up to Tisha B’Av, we need to be reminded of the Jewish togetherness that must be etched into our hearts.

    One of the reasons we lost the Temple in Jerusa-lem is baseless hatred. Essentially, everyone was a ‘star’ in his own right, all the people light years away from each other.

    The Torah’s clarion call is, as the Beatles would say, ‘come together’.

    Indeed, the rabbis teach that every Jewish soul contains elements of every other Jewish soul that has been, is, or will be on this planet. We are one unit.

    Also for our Christian community we should think about that problem of unity and remember that, our success will hinge on how connected we feel to each other. Every Christian soul (a living being) should carry in him the link to the master teacher Jeshua and as such also should contain elements of every other Christian soul.

    A few months ago we already spoke about the problems of co-operating in Belgium of the different Christadelphian groups. We also had to lick our wounds of the 2013-2014 season. Such a small community, but like all other Christian communities, we did and do find human beings not able to work with each other or being afraid others would runaway with people from their group or would  gain more attendance. But we should not be worrying about loosing members, but should worry about getting people closer to God.

    It is also not the matter of being a star ourselves, being a gifted or highly celebrated person in the church to whom everybody looks up to, or having all the power. The power belongs to God. It’s about beginning a de-starification process and the forging of sand-like bonds of genuine fraternity. We are taking on the name of being “Brethren in Christ” and as such should be as brothers and sisters be associated for the common purpose or interest, such as to be united in Christ.

    Deu 11:13-17 RNKJV  And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love YHWH your Elohim, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,  (14)  That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.  (15)  And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.  (16)  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other elohim, and worship them;  (17)  And then YHWH’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which YHWH giveth you.

    Israel was called to remain faithful to Jehovah, and we as those who are called by Christ Jesus are now also part of that Israel also should be faithful to Him and should not make ourselves other gods or other idols we prefer following instead of the Most High. Jeshua is the cornerstone given by God the Almighty. Though certain people may want to be mighty and do want to have more power than others, we should give ourselves to Christ and be united under him, working all together, working the soil, for the One God. some may expect certain rewards by following certain man but it will be God Who will abundantly bless the people with tokens of His goodness.  A person rendering service to God with all his soul, would become an acceptable “living sacrifice” unto Him).

    Rom 12:1 RNKJV  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of YHWH, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto YHWH, which is your reasonable service.

    It is  by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing to God, which is our spiritual worship and a service which we are willing to share with one another, not conformed to the fashion of this world, but being transformed by the renewal of our mind, that we may learn by experience what is the will of God, what is good, and wellpleasing, and perfect (Romans 12:2).

    There is the appeal for us to become co-workers, helping each other, not working against each other, or not considering each other rivals. As individual beings, planets or stars, we may be totally different, but together we are one part of the universe, just some small elements in the creation of God.

    In that universe, on this globe, living in this world, we should not be part of this world but should be in unity with Christ, all going for Christ. This going for Christ demands following his instructions to go out in this world, preaching the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God. We should try to enlighten others and to take the yoke from their shoudlers by helping them to find the right path to God.

    First of all we should first accept upon ourselves the yoke of heaven’s sovereignty, and afterwards accept upon ourselves the yoke of the commandments. Ceaseless we should strive to humbly accept God’s sovereignty. All that we do each day is then guided by the commitment made before at the end of the day.

    Soon having a new academic year, starting a new working season, we should take the sparkles of the Summer-months with us and bring the light of the stars into the ecclesia. Without the internal core the star cannot be bright, so we too do have to have a good core. Our nucleus should have a firm duramen full of bright fire of faith. The pith of our faith should be the Biblical knowledge and our thorough frequent Bible reading and sharing this faith and Bible knowledge with each other.

    We look forward to find more writers willing to write for our lifestyle magazines and bringing some interesting exhortations, which shall be able to inspire us to go further in space to go out of the darkness and see more light by even more stars which were first hidden.

    We do hope we can get some more people to come to read some of our Christadelphian thoughts, to come to our meetings, showing them some more light on dark paths, showing the way unto the path into the stars

    As Moses had to guide his people we also have to find guides to help us to recognise the most truthful Guide, the Bible. As brothers and sisters we should be standing ready  to pick up a star, to find something in which we are good and by which we can help others. Each of us has received some talents and those talents we should use for the best. Do not waste those talents, but use them to bring people closer to God.

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    Preceding posting:

    Belgian Christadelphians 2013 & 2014 in review

    A man from the North wanting to have control in Belgium

    Delay in publications because attack from outside

    Preparation for unity

    Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #14 Prayer #12 The other name

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    Additional reading:

    1. Broeders in Christus 2013 & 2014 in review
    2. The Presence of God
    3. Hubble Peers into the Most Crowded Place in the Milky Way
    4. Reflect on how much idolizing happens
    5. Looking on what is going on and not being of it
    6. Marriage of Jesus 10 Old and New Covenant
    7. Preparation for unity
    8. First month of the year and predictions
    9. Days of Nisan, Pesach, Pasach, Pascha and Easter
    10. Festival of Freedom and persecutions
    11. 14 Nisan a day to remember #1 Inception
    12. 14 Nisan a day to remember #5 The Day to celebrate
    13. Certain people trying to stem freedom of speech
    14. No reconciliation possible
    15. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
    16. Not words of any organisation should bind you, but the Word of God
    17. Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
    18. Born to Shine not to fear!
    19. All I want is peace!!!
    20. See God’s wonderworks and hear His Voice
    21. Looking for a shepherd for the sheep and goats
    22. Joining for a new year in the assurance to be bought with a price
    23. Different approach in organisation of services #3
    24. My blogs 2014 in review
    25. Dissolution of Bijbelvorsers (Bible scholars), Association for Bible study
    26. A new voice calling for peace
    27. Welcome to “From guestwriters”
    28. Guestwriters for you
    29. Stepping Toes 2014 in review
    30. Do you have a writer or presenter in you?

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