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I am going to do a School about Biblical/Christian Worldview, with #YWAM.
We will start on the 17th january, and still have open spots for you to join!
If you want to have more info, reply to me with a private comment :)
#SBCW #YouthWithAMission #Disciples #Discipleship #FollowersOfChrist #FollowersOfJesus #Jesus #HearingTheVoiceOfGod
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I am going to do a School about Biblical/Christian Worldview, with #YWAM.
We will start on the 17th january, and still have open spots for you to join!
If you want to have more info, reply to me with a private comment :)
#SBCW #YouthWithAMission #Disciples #Discipleship #FollowersOfChrist #FollowersOfJesus #Jesus #HearingTheVoiceOfGod
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Everyone Welcome in our open Ecclesia
The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.
Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.
In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.
Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.
At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.
In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.
But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.
For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.
One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.
We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.
When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.
At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!
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Please find also to read:
- Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth
- Words in the world
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Who are the Christadelphians
- Who are Brothers in Christ and why do they call themselves Christadelphian?
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- Brothers and sisters in Christ for you
- History of the Christadelphians
- John Thomas
- Forming a Christian bond
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
- What Christadelphians teach
- Differences between Christadelphians and other churches in Christianity
- Handbook to the Christadelphian Statement of Faith
- Living as a believer in Christ
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
- My faith
- Becoming brothers and sisters in Christ
- Christadelphians children of God
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- What and why Christadelphian Ecclesia‘
- The Ecclesia
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- Reasons to come together
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
- What makes a consecrated Christian
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
- A participation in the body of Christ
- Looking for Christadelphian in your neighbourhood
- C4U (Christ For You – Christadelphians For You)
- Guide to Christadelphian Ecclesias
- Adresses of Brothers in Christ Worldwide
Rate this:
#BecomeLikeChrist #BecomingLikeChrist #BeingAChristadelphian #BelgianChristadelphians #BodyOfChrist #BrotherInChrist #BrotherSOfChrist #BrothersAndSistersInChrist #BrothersInChrist #Brussels #Carelinks #Christadelphian #ChristadelphianCommunity #Christadelphianism #Christadelphians #Churchcommunity #Community #FollowerOfChrist #FollowerSOfGod #FollowersOfChrist #FollowingChrist #FollowingGod #FollowingGodSCommandments #FoodSupply #FreeChristadelphians #Gathering #GoalReaching #HavingSpiritOfChrist #HomelessPeople #HouseChurch #ImageOfChrist #Leefdaal #Leuven #LoversOfGod #Mons #NazareneManJeshua #Newbury #Nivelles #PathOfLife #PraiseGod #RelationshipWithJesusChrist #Sharing #SharingFaith #SharingFeedback #SharingFellowship #SharingGoodNews #SharingHope #Shelter #StudyingTheBible #Tervuren #TheWay #theWayToGod #toDefendWeakerOnes #toFollowGod #toGlorifyGod #toGrow #toGrowSpiritually #toHelpEachOther #toHelpThoseInNeed #toWorkTogether #Unity #UnityInChrist #UnityOfTheSpirit #WorkingTogether #WorshippingGod
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Everyone Welcome in our open Ecclesia
The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.
Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.
In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.
Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.
At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.
In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.
But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.
For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.
One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.
We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.
When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.
At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!
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Please find also to read:
- Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth
- Words in the world
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Who are the Christadelphians
- Who are Brothers in Christ and why do they call themselves Christadelphian?
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- Brothers and sisters in Christ for you
- History of the Christadelphians
- John Thomas
- Forming a Christian bond
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
- What Christadelphians teach
- Differences between Christadelphians and other churches in Christianity
- Handbook to the Christadelphian Statement of Faith
- Living as a believer in Christ
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
- My faith
- Becoming brothers and sisters in Christ
- Christadelphians children of God
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- What and why Christadelphian Ecclesia‘
- The Ecclesia
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- Reasons to come together
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
- What makes a consecrated Christian
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
- A participation in the body of Christ
- Looking for Christadelphian in your neighbourhood
- C4U (Christ For You – Christadelphians For You)
- Guide to Christadelphian Ecclesias
- Adresses of Brothers in Christ Worldwide
Rate this:
#BecomeLikeChrist #BecomingLikeChrist #BeingAChristadelphian #BelgianChristadelphians #BodyOfChrist #BrotherInChrist #BrotherSOfChrist #BrothersAndSistersInChrist #BrothersInChrist #Brussels #Carelinks #Christadelphian #ChristadelphianCommunity #Christadelphianism #Christadelphians #Churchcommunity #Community #FollowerOfChrist #FollowerSOfGod #FollowersOfChrist #FollowingChrist #FollowingGod #FollowingGodSCommandments #FoodSupply #FreeChristadelphians #Gathering #GoalReaching #HavingSpiritOfChrist #HomelessPeople #HouseChurch #ImageOfChrist #Leefdaal #Leuven #LoversOfGod #Mons #NazareneManJeshua #Newbury #Nivelles #PathOfLife #PraiseGod #RelationshipWithJesusChrist #Sharing #SharingFaith #SharingFeedback #SharingFellowship #SharingGoodNews #SharingHope #Shelter #StudyingTheBible #Tervuren #TheWay #theWayToGod #toDefendWeakerOnes #toFollowGod #toGlorifyGod #toGrow #toGrowSpiritually #toHelpEachOther #toHelpThoseInNeed #toWorkTogether #Unity #UnityInChrist #UnityOfTheSpirit #WorkingTogether #WorshippingGod
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Everyone Welcome in our open Ecclesia
The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.
Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.
In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.
Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.
At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.
In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.
But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.
For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.
One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.
We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.
When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.
At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!
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Please find also to read:
- Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth
- Words in the world
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Who are the Christadelphians
- Who are Brothers in Christ and why do they call themselves Christadelphian?
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- Brothers and sisters in Christ for you
- History of the Christadelphians
- John Thomas
- Forming a Christian bond
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
- What Christadelphians teach
- Differences between Christadelphians and other churches in Christianity
- Handbook to the Christadelphian Statement of Faith
- Living as a believer in Christ
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
- My faith
- Becoming brothers and sisters in Christ
- Christadelphians children of God
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- What and why Christadelphian Ecclesia‘
- The Ecclesia
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- Reasons to come together
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
- What makes a consecrated Christian
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
- A participation in the body of Christ
- Looking for Christadelphian in your neighbourhood
- C4U (Christ For You – Christadelphians For You)
- Guide to Christadelphian Ecclesias
- Adresses of Brothers in Christ Worldwide
Rate this:
#BecomeLikeChrist #BecomingLikeChrist #BeingAChristadelphian #BelgianChristadelphians #BodyOfChrist #BrotherInChrist #BrotherSOfChrist #BrothersAndSistersInChrist #BrothersInChrist #Brussels #Carelinks #Christadelphian #ChristadelphianCommunity #Christadelphianism #Christadelphians #Churchcommunity #Community #FollowerOfChrist #FollowerSOfGod #FollowersOfChrist #FollowingChrist #FollowingGod #FollowingGodSCommandments #FoodSupply #FreeChristadelphians #Gathering #GoalReaching #HavingSpiritOfChrist #HomelessPeople #HouseChurch #ImageOfChrist #Leefdaal #Leuven #LoversOfGod #Mons #NazareneManJeshua #Newbury #Nivelles #PathOfLife #PraiseGod #RelationshipWithJesusChrist #Sharing #SharingFaith #SharingFeedback #SharingFellowship #SharingGoodNews #SharingHope #Shelter #StudyingTheBible #Tervuren #TheWay #theWayToGod #toDefendWeakerOnes #toFollowGod #toGlorifyGod #toGrow #toGrowSpiritually #toHelpEachOther #toHelpThoseInNeed #toWorkTogether #Unity #UnityInChrist #UnityOfTheSpirit #WorkingTogether #WorshippingGod
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Everyone Welcome in our open Ecclesia
The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.
Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.
In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.
Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.
At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.
In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.
But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.
For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.
One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.
We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.
When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.
At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!
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Please find also to read:
- Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth
- Words in the world
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Who are the Christadelphians
- Who are Brothers in Christ and why do they call themselves Christadelphian?
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- Brothers and sisters in Christ for you
- History of the Christadelphians
- John Thomas
- Forming a Christian bond
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
- What Christadelphians teach
- Differences between Christadelphians and other churches in Christianity
- Handbook to the Christadelphian Statement of Faith
- Living as a believer in Christ
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
- My faith
- Becoming brothers and sisters in Christ
- Christadelphians children of God
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- What and why Christadelphian Ecclesia‘
- The Ecclesia
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- Reasons to come together
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
- What makes a consecrated Christian
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
- A participation in the body of Christ
- Looking for Christadelphian in your neighbourhood
- C4U (Christ For You – Christadelphians For You)
- Guide to Christadelphian Ecclesias
- Adresses of Brothers in Christ Worldwide
Rate this:
#BecomeLikeChrist #BecomingLikeChrist #BeingAChristadelphian #BelgianChristadelphians #BodyOfChrist #BrotherInChrist #BrotherSOfChrist #BrothersAndSistersInChrist #BrothersInChrist #Brussels #Carelinks #Christadelphian #ChristadelphianCommunity #Christadelphianism #Christadelphians #Churchcommunity #Community #FollowerOfChrist #FollowerSOfGod #FollowersOfChrist #FollowingChrist #FollowingGod #FollowingGodSCommandments #FoodSupply #FreeChristadelphians #Gathering #GoalReaching #HavingSpiritOfChrist #HomelessPeople #HouseChurch #ImageOfChrist #Leefdaal #Leuven #LoversOfGod #Mons #NazareneManJeshua #Newbury #Nivelles #PathOfLife #PraiseGod #RelationshipWithJesusChrist #Sharing #SharingFaith #SharingFeedback #SharingFellowship #SharingGoodNews #SharingHope #Shelter #StudyingTheBible #Tervuren #TheWay #theWayToGod #toDefendWeakerOnes #toFollowGod #toGlorifyGod #toGrow #toGrowSpiritually #toHelpEachOther #toHelpThoseInNeed #toWorkTogether #Unity #UnityInChrist #UnityOfTheSpirit #WorkingTogether #WorshippingGod
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The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.
Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.
In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.
Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.
At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.
In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.
But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.
For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.
One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.
We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.
When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.
At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!
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Please find also to read:
- Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth
- Words in the world
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Who are the Christadelphians
- Who are Brothers in Christ and why do they call themselves Christadelphian?
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- Brothers and sisters in Christ for you
- History of the Christadelphians
- John Thomas
- Forming a Christian bond
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
- What Christadelphians teach
- Differences between Christadelphians and other churches in Christianity
- Handbook to the Christadelphian Statement of Faith
- Living as a believer in Christ
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
- My faith
- Becoming brothers and sisters in Christ
- Christadelphians children of God
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- What and why Christadelphian Ecclesia‘
- The Ecclesia
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- Reasons to come together
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
- What makes a consecrated Christian
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
- A participation in the body of Christ
- Looking for Christadelphian in your neighbourhood
- C4U (Christ For You – Christadelphians For You)
- Guide to Christadelphian Ecclesias
- Adresses of Brothers in Christ Worldwide
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By the opening of the Season 2018-2019
After a marvellous great Summer we are looking forward with renewed energy for this new season.
Entrance of the Servicestation E40 – Texaco – Heverlee-Leuven where we had our breaking of bread service and biblestudy meetings with our ecclesia.It was to good to have the opportunity to meet in a very beautiful space, designed by Abscis Architects, in which they anchored from a future-oriented social commitment in the social, economic, historical and cultural context of the environment and created a place where travellers could come at ease.
We could count on the Cuiz’Inn restaurant where on the menu fresh and authentic dishes from all over the world could be found. That is why their motto was ‘Taste the world’. From Oriental wok dishes to Belgian classics: every recipe was given as much attention and care that made it possible to say that Cuiz’Inn was not just a roadside restaurant. In the open kitchen products were prepared fresh and on the spot. But that is now a thing of the past.
The interior of our ecclesia meeting room we now have to remember as a nice place we could use for such a short time.We shall have to look for a new meeting room, having our ecclesia meeting space being changed in a Starbuks Coffee saloon and a Burger King snackbar.
Brother Marcus Ampe shall be in the South of France until the 13th of October, after which he shall continue the search for an other meeting room. For a few weeks he shall take less time to think about the ecclesia work, taking some more time to walk in la douce France. After his Summer holiday he shall be once again all ears for those who need some help.
From mid October he will be back to work for one another’s welfare. Then he will encourage others again to be ready for each other, to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burden, to encourage and edify one another, and serve one another. Because that is what we should do at all times.
Whatever may happen, how much we may stay in the darkness concerning a meeting place around Brussels and Leuven, we shall try to look positive and shall keep the good spirit. Since the Facebook profiles timelines do not receive an update of the printed articles any more, we do hope people shall follow us on the Facebook pages: Christadelphia and Christadelphians.
For 2018-2019 we hope to continue with regular publications on this site and on the Brethren site Broeders in Christus, where you shall be able to find more articles in Dutch. From January 2019 you shall be able to find more regularly a devotion or a “Thought for the day” which shall follow our Daily Readings.
Our eyes shall also look at this world and give an eye from Christadelphian perspective on “Our World“. We also hope you shall find that blog of Brother Marcus, who by being very busy with some new bible translations and writing for some other Christian magazines, has somewhat neglected his own personal blog “Marcus Ampe’s space“.
Helping hands for the working of the Christadelphians in Belgium shall be very welcome. For sure we can use many hands and could also use some funds as well, having to face several costs which brings the ecclesia further in the red. Even when all the work is done voluntary, nobody receiving a payment for the preaching or work for the ecclesia, we have many costs, like internet-charges, publication and copyrights, postage fees, etc.. Doing no collections in the church service and not demanding a tenth of income, we depend on free gifts.
With much hope we look forward to find more readers, but also to find some people who would not mind meeting us in real life. We reach out our hand to find more people who would love to meet us. Like every believer in Christ, we need to feel that we are united in fellowship with one another, in the assurance that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Do you hunger to fellowship with others?
Remember, you cannot claim to walk with God and not walk with His people. Christ Jesus remembered his followers to come together regularly. He wanted that, after his death, they would continue to gather to praise his heavenly Father. But he also wanted them to meet each other at regular times to make sure they would feel united and willing to encourage each other.
Brown deer standing on grass beside river during daytime – wanting to cross the riverIt can well be that you too have to learn to fellowship with others and grow your faith in Christ Jesus. It is a task given by Christ Jesus. We should remember that. We also should remember that we should help each other to walk on the right path. We should give each-other a hand so that we can cross the wildest rivers.
Each day of our life we should remember that we are on our way to a better place. But we do have to look for the right station to catch the right train. To do that we need also to go to the right platform, where we shall be able to find people who are also willing to go on the track of life, from the darkness to the light. There we shall also find a special storyteller willing to go with us as a mentor and companion.
As an ecclesia, a bunch of people gathering with the intention to share their faith, we love to reach out our hand and to help people to cross the river and to bring them to save grounds and pathways where we can go forwards to reach the goal set before us by our divine Creator.
Jesus requested his followers not to stop meeting each other. For this we are still looking for places in Belgium to be able to realize this. If you have a room where we could come together you can always contact us. A meeting place to study the Bible and to praise and worship God does not have to be that special. Even in a living room one can come together to pray to God and form a community of believers.
This year too, we will try to make people realize that a small community of faith does not have to be that bad, but rather can be an advantage. Once again we invite others to join us for singing praises to God, praying together, listening to a message from the Word of God.
Every church needs people to shape and colour the community. Every church desperately needs people who make public meetings a top priority. Today is the day to start prioritizing the importance of the activities of your church in your life. Where are you and what do you want? Do you want to be part of true believers who want to fully serve Jehovah God with their hearts?
Everyone will have to realize that he or she also needs a church. We must see that God has made us a part of the church. Nobody can do it alone. We must realize that we are not strong enough on our own. Likewise, we must dare to be humble enough to recognize that we are not wise enough, not mature enough, and sometimes not godly enough. Without the beautiful, usual remedy that you experience in the church, you will not be able to save it. Without the support of your brothers and sisters in Christ, you will not be able to save it.
Then you also need to know that we also need you. The church needs you. It is together that believers in Christ have to make Church to form the body of Christ. If you are a believer, God has made you a part of the Church for the benefit of others. (1 Peter 4:10) says:
“As everyone has received a gift, you must serve each other as good ministers of the multiple mercy of God.”
God gave you to be part of the church that you have to make as your own church. You have to realize that you have received a lot from God, but that those gifts must also be shared with others. Those gifts that you received from God must be used for good use, also for other people. So we as a church give priority as an expression of generosity towards others.
We will also not fail to testify this year for Jehovah and His sentient. Without that God-given cornerstone we are not many, not to say nothing. All the partners in Christ must anchor themselves in the port provided by Jesus.
In our ecclesiae there is no collection plate passed. We know it could help us a lot and for members of the ecclesia it could be an easy way of sharing some of their possessions. Depending on free gifts we are very limited, even when nobody working for the ecclesia receives any money. All work is done freely. We do not have a staff payroll, because every work for God has to be done freely. As in the early church example, we do hope church members would not mind supporting the needs of other church members and shall be willing also to provide the means of having an established community of believers. Facing some great urgency for funds we dare to ask you if you would not like to help us. All sort of help is welcome. If someone can offer us a room to get together, it would be fantastic. If someone can provide us with some money to cover our expenses, that would be very nice.
Most of all we would appreciate it if we could find more people in Belgium interested in meeting with each other. Do you know that when you give a day to God, you can put aside all the worries of life. Together you can discuss many things with each other. By coming together you can share in the happiness of others. Together you can serve as supporters and strengthen each other. There are even many of the pleasures of life that we as brothers and sisters in Christ want and can share with each other. It therefore does not have to be a whole day spend with each other, where you invest time to worship God, serve the community and others. But what is it like to set aside a time for God and for each other?
Ideally we would welcome you at a meeting of like-minded people. That is our biggest wish for the new season.
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Financial support is always welcome at Argenta Bank: BE37 9730 6618 2528 with notification: “Operation Belgian Christadelphians” or “Support for Belgian Christadelphians“.
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Preceding
Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
When seeing a biblically sound church
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Additional reading
- Casual Christians
- Establish Priorities
- Expenses, costs – Onkosten, uitgaven
- Contribution – Contributie, bijdrage
- Be a ready giver
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Related
- Tomorrow
- Motives in Life
- Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself
- Do I Actually Need These People?
- We’re Sent Together, Not Alone
- Step Eight – Go into all the WorldWhy Should We Serve?
- Building a Christian Church
- Reconnecting with God
- Hope for those in Need
- 7 Ways to be closer to God
- The Importance of Coordination in Service
- Church and Community Working Together
- What are God’s people? What are the service-doers? | The Church of Almighty God
- Let there be Light
- Touch 101: Personal space in church
- Coming Home
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By the opening of the Season 2018-2019
After a marvellous great Summer we are looking forward with renewed energy for this new season.
Entrance of the Servicestation E40 – Texaco – Heverlee-Leuven where we had our breaking of bread service and biblestudy meetings with our ecclesia.It was to good to have the opportunity to meet in a very beautiful space, designed by Abscis Architects, in which they anchored from a future-oriented social commitment in the social, economic, historical and cultural context of the environment and created a place where travellers could come at ease.
We could count on the Cuiz’Inn restaurant where on the menu fresh and authentic dishes from all over the world could be found. That is why their motto was ‘Taste the world’. From Oriental wok dishes to Belgian classics: every recipe was given as much attention and care that made it possible to say that Cuiz’Inn was not just a roadside restaurant. In the open kitchen products were prepared fresh and on the spot. But that is now a thing of the past.
The interior of our ecclesia meeting room we now have to remember as a nice place we could use for such a short time.We shall have to look for a new meeting room, having our ecclesia meeting space being changed in a Starbuks Coffee saloon and a Burger King snackbar.
Brother Marcus Ampe shall be in the South of France until the 13th of October, after which he shall continue the search for an other meeting room. For a few weeks he shall take less time to think about the ecclesia work, taking some more time to walk in la douce France. After his Summer holiday he shall be once again all ears for those who need some help.
From mid October he will be back to work for one another’s welfare. Then he will encourage others again to be ready for each other, to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burden, to encourage and edify one another, and serve one another. Because that is what we should do at all times.
Whatever may happen, how much we may stay in the darkness concerning a meeting place around Brussels and Leuven, we shall try to look positive and shall keep the good spirit. Since the Facebook profiles timelines do not receive an update of the printed articles any more, we do hope people shall follow us on the Facebook pages: Christadelphia and Christadelphians.
For 2018-2019 we hope to continue with regular publications on this site and on the Brethren site Broeders in Christus, where you shall be able to find more articles in Dutch. From January 2019 you shall be able to find more regularly a devotion or a “Thought for the day” which shall follow our Daily Readings.
Our eyes shall also look at this world and give an eye from Christadelphian perspective on “Our World“. We also hope you shall find that blog of Brother Marcus, who by being very busy with some new bible translations and writing for some other Christian magazines, has somewhat neglected his own personal blog “Marcus Ampe’s space“.
Helping hands for the working of the Christadelphians in Belgium shall be very welcome. For sure we can use many hands and could also use some funds as well, having to face several costs which brings the ecclesia further in the red. Even when all the work is done voluntary, nobody receiving a payment for the preaching or work for the ecclesia, we have many costs, like internet-charges, publication and copyrights, postage fees, etc.. Doing no collections in the church service and not demanding a tenth of income, we depend on free gifts.
With much hope we look forward to find more readers, but also to find some people who would not mind meeting us in real life. We reach out our hand to find more people who would love to meet us. Like every believer in Christ, we need to feel that we are united in fellowship with one another, in the assurance that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Do you hunger to fellowship with others?
Remember, you cannot claim to walk with God and not walk with His people. Christ Jesus remembered his followers to come together regularly. He wanted that, after his death, they would continue to gather to praise his heavenly Father. But he also wanted them to meet each other at regular times to make sure they would feel united and willing to encourage each other.
Brown deer standing on grass beside river during daytime – wanting to cross the riverIt can well be that you too have to learn to fellowship with others and grow your faith in Christ Jesus. It is a task given by Christ Jesus. We should remember that. We also should remember that we should help each other to walk on the right path. We should give each-other a hand so that we can cross the wildest rivers.
Each day of our life we should remember that we are on our way to a better place. But we do have to look for the right station to catch the right train. To do that we need also to go to the right platform, where we shall be able to find people who are also willing to go on the track of life, from the darkness to the light. There we shall also find a special storyteller willing to go with us as a mentor and companion.
As an ecclesia, a bunch of people gathering with the intention to share their faith, we love to reach out our hand and to help people to cross the river and to bring them to save grounds and pathways where we can go forwards to reach the goal set before us by our divine Creator.
Jesus requested his followers not to stop meeting each other. For this we are still looking for places in Belgium to be able to realize this. If you have a room where we could come together you can always contact us. A meeting place to study the Bible and to praise and worship God does not have to be that special. Even in a living room one can come together to pray to God and form a community of believers.
This year too, we will try to make people realize that a small community of faith does not have to be that bad, but rather can be an advantage. Once again we invite others to join us for singing praises to God, praying together, listening to a message from the Word of God.
Every church needs people to shape and colour the community. Every church desperately needs people who make public meetings a top priority. Today is the day to start prioritizing the importance of the activities of your church in your life. Where are you and what do you want? Do you want to be part of true believers who want to fully serve Jehovah God with their hearts?
Everyone will have to realize that he or she also needs a church. We must see that God has made us a part of the church. Nobody can do it alone. We must realize that we are not strong enough on our own. Likewise, we must dare to be humble enough to recognize that we are not wise enough, not mature enough, and sometimes not godly enough. Without the beautiful, usual remedy that you experience in the church, you will not be able to save it. Without the support of your brothers and sisters in Christ, you will not be able to save it.
Then you also need to know that we also need you. The church needs you. It is together that believers in Christ have to make Church to form the body of Christ. If you are a believer, God has made you a part of the Church for the benefit of others. (1 Peter 4:10) says:
“As everyone has received a gift, you must serve each other as good ministers of the multiple mercy of God.”
God gave you to be part of the church that you have to make as your own church. You have to realize that you have received a lot from God, but that those gifts must also be shared with others. Those gifts that you received from God must be used for good use, also for other people. So we as a church give priority as an expression of generosity towards others.
We will also not fail to testify this year for Jehovah and His sentient. Without that God-given cornerstone we are not many, not to say nothing. All the partners in Christ must anchor themselves in the port provided by Jesus.
In our ecclesiae there is no collection plate passed. We know it could help us a lot and for members of the ecclesia it could be an easy way of sharing some of their possessions. Depending on free gifts we are very limited, even when nobody working for the ecclesia receives any money. All work is done freely. We do not have a staff payroll, because every work for God has to be done freely. As in the early church example, we do hope church members would not mind supporting the needs of other church members and shall be willing also to provide the means of having an established community of believers. Facing some great urgency for funds we dare to ask you if you would not like to help us. All sort of help is welcome. If someone can offer us a room to get together, it would be fantastic. If someone can provide us with some money to cover our expenses, that would be very nice.
Most of all we would appreciate it if we could find more people in Belgium interested in meeting with each other. Do you know that when you give a day to God, you can put aside all the worries of life. Together you can discuss many things with each other. By coming together you can share in the happiness of others. Together you can serve as supporters and strengthen each other. There are even many of the pleasures of life that we as brothers and sisters in Christ want and can share with each other. It therefore does not have to be a whole day spend with each other, where you invest time to worship God, serve the community and others. But what is it like to set aside a time for God and for each other?
Ideally we would welcome you at a meeting of like-minded people. That is our biggest wish for the new season.
°°°
Financial support is always welcome at Argenta Bank: BE37 9730 6618 2528 with notification: “Operation Belgian Christadelphians” or “Support for Belgian Christadelphians“.
+
Preceding
Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
When seeing a biblically sound church
++
Additional reading
- Casual Christians
- Establish Priorities
- Expenses, costs – Onkosten, uitgaven
- Contribution – Contributie, bijdrage
- Be a ready giver
+++
Related
- Tomorrow
- Motives in Life
- Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself
- Do I Actually Need These People?
- We’re Sent Together, Not Alone
- Step Eight – Go into all the WorldWhy Should We Serve?
- Building a Christian Church
- Reconnecting with God
- Hope for those in Need
- 7 Ways to be closer to God
- The Importance of Coordination in Service
- Church and Community Working Together
- What are God’s people? What are the service-doers? | The Church of Almighty God
- Let there be Light
- Touch 101: Personal space in church
- Coming Home
Rate this:
#2018 #2019 #BeingChurch #BeingPartOfTheBodyOfChrist #BelieverInChrist #BelieversInChrist #BodyOfChrist #Brussels #BurgerKing #ChristadelphiaFacebookPage #ChristadelphianMeetingRoom #Church #ChurchCommunity #ChurchPlanting #ChurchService #Collection #CuizInn #DailyReadingsBibleReadingPlan_ #Darkness #EcclesiaBrusselLeuven #Facebook #FacebookPage #Fellowship #FindingAChurch #FollowersOfChrist #FreeChristadelphiansFacebookPage #GoalOfMan #GoalReaching #HelpingEachOther #HeverleeLeuven_ #Leuven #MakingChurch #Meeting #PlaceOfWorship #PraiseGod #Priority #ServeGod #Starbucks #ThoughtForTheDay #TrueBelievers #UnitedInFellowship #Worship #WorshipService #WorshippingGod
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By the opening of the Season 2018-2019
After a marvellous great Summer we are looking forward with renewed energy for this new season.
Entrance of the Servicestation E40 – Texaco – Heverlee-Leuven where we had our breaking of bread service and biblestudy meetings with our ecclesia.It was to good to have the opportunity to meet in a very beautiful space, designed by Abscis Architects, in which they anchored from a future-oriented social commitment in the social, economic, historical and cultural context of the environment and created a place where travellers could come at ease.
We could count on the Cuiz’Inn restaurant where on the menu fresh and authentic dishes from all over the world could be found. That is why their motto was ‘Taste the world’. From Oriental wok dishes to Belgian classics: every recipe was given as much attention and care that made it possible to say that Cuiz’Inn was not just a roadside restaurant. In the open kitchen products were prepared fresh and on the spot. But that is now a thing of the past.
The interior of our ecclesia meeting room we now have to remember as a nice place we could use for such a short time.We shall have to look for a new meeting room, having our ecclesia meeting space being changed in a Starbuks Coffee saloon and a Burger King snackbar.
Brother Marcus Ampe shall be in the South of France until the 13th of October, after which he shall continue the search for an other meeting room. For a few weeks he shall take less time to think about the ecclesia work, taking some more time to walk in la douce France. After his Summer holiday he shall be once again all ears for those who need some help.
From mid October he will be back to work for one another’s welfare. Then he will encourage others again to be ready for each other, to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burden, to encourage and edify one another, and serve one another. Because that is what we should do at all times.
Whatever may happen, how much we may stay in the darkness concerning a meeting place around Brussels and Leuven, we shall try to look positive and shall keep the good spirit. Since the Facebook profiles timelines do not receive an update of the printed articles any more, we do hope people shall follow us on the Facebook pages: Christadelphia and Christadelphians.
For 2018-2019 we hope to continue with regular publications on this site and on the Brethren site Broeders in Christus, where you shall be able to find more articles in Dutch. From January 2019 you shall be able to find more regularly a devotion or a “Thought for the day” which shall follow our Daily Readings.
Our eyes shall also look at this world and give an eye from Christadelphian perspective on “Our World“. We also hope you shall find that blog of Brother Marcus, who by being very busy with some new bible translations and writing for some other Christian magazines, has somewhat neglected his own personal blog “Marcus Ampe’s space“.
Helping hands for the working of the Christadelphians in Belgium shall be very welcome. For sure we can use many hands and could also use some funds as well, having to face several costs which brings the ecclesia further in the red. Even when all the work is done voluntary, nobody receiving a payment for the preaching or work for the ecclesia, we have many costs, like internet-charges, publication and copyrights, postage fees, etc.. Doing no collections in the church service and not demanding a tenth of income, we depend on free gifts.
With much hope we look forward to find more readers, but also to find some people who would not mind meeting us in real life. We reach out our hand to find more people who would love to meet us. Like every believer in Christ, we need to feel that we are united in fellowship with one another, in the assurance that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Do you hunger to fellowship with others?
Remember, you cannot claim to walk with God and not walk with His people. Christ Jesus remembered his followers to come together regularly. He wanted that, after his death, they would continue to gather to praise his heavenly Father. But he also wanted them to meet each other at regular times to make sure they would feel united and willing to encourage each other.
Brown deer standing on grass beside river during daytime – wanting to cross the riverIt can well be that you too have to learn to fellowship with others and grow your faith in Christ Jesus. It is a task given by Christ Jesus. We should remember that. We also should remember that we should help each other to walk on the right path. We should give each-other a hand so that we can cross the wildest rivers.
Each day of our life we should remember that we are on our way to a better place. But we do have to look for the right station to catch the right train. To do that we need also to go to the right platform, where we shall be able to find people who are also willing to go on the track of life, from the darkness to the light. There we shall also find a special storyteller willing to go with us as a mentor and companion.
As an ecclesia, a bunch of people gathering with the intention to share their faith, we love to reach out our hand and to help people to cross the river and to bring them to save grounds and pathways where we can go forwards to reach the goal set before us by our divine Creator.
Jesus requested his followers not to stop meeting each other. For this we are still looking for places in Belgium to be able to realize this. If you have a room where we could come together you can always contact us. A meeting place to study the Bible and to praise and worship God does not have to be that special. Even in a living room one can come together to pray to God and form a community of believers.
This year too, we will try to make people realize that a small community of faith does not have to be that bad, but rather can be an advantage. Once again we invite others to join us for singing praises to God, praying together, listening to a message from the Word of God.
Every church needs people to shape and colour the community. Every church desperately needs people who make public meetings a top priority. Today is the day to start prioritizing the importance of the activities of your church in your life. Where are you and what do you want? Do you want to be part of true believers who want to fully serve Jehovah God with their hearts?
Everyone will have to realize that he or she also needs a church. We must see that God has made us a part of the church. Nobody can do it alone. We must realize that we are not strong enough on our own. Likewise, we must dare to be humble enough to recognize that we are not wise enough, not mature enough, and sometimes not godly enough. Without the beautiful, usual remedy that you experience in the church, you will not be able to save it. Without the support of your brothers and sisters in Christ, you will not be able to save it.
Then you also need to know that we also need you. The church needs you. It is together that believers in Christ have to make Church to form the body of Christ. If you are a believer, God has made you a part of the Church for the benefit of others. (1 Peter 4:10) says:
“As everyone has received a gift, you must serve each other as good ministers of the multiple mercy of God.”
God gave you to be part of the church that you have to make as your own church. You have to realize that you have received a lot from God, but that those gifts must also be shared with others. Those gifts that you received from God must be used for good use, also for other people. So we as a church give priority as an expression of generosity towards others.
We will also not fail to testify this year for Jehovah and His sentient. Without that God-given cornerstone we are not many, not to say nothing. All the partners in Christ must anchor themselves in the port provided by Jesus.
In our ecclesiae there is no collection plate passed. We know it could help us a lot and for members of the ecclesia it could be an easy way of sharing some of their possessions. Depending on free gifts we are very limited, even when nobody working for the ecclesia receives any money. All work is done freely. We do not have a staff payroll, because every work for God has to be done freely. As in the early church example, we do hope church members would not mind supporting the needs of other church members and shall be willing also to provide the means of having an established community of believers. Facing some great urgency for funds we dare to ask you if you would not like to help us. All sort of help is welcome. If someone can offer us a room to get together, it would be fantastic. If someone can provide us with some money to cover our expenses, that would be very nice.
Most of all we would appreciate it if we could find more people in Belgium interested in meeting with each other. Do you know that when you give a day to God, you can put aside all the worries of life. Together you can discuss many things with each other. By coming together you can share in the happiness of others. Together you can serve as supporters and strengthen each other. There are even many of the pleasures of life that we as brothers and sisters in Christ want and can share with each other. It therefore does not have to be a whole day spend with each other, where you invest time to worship God, serve the community and others. But what is it like to set aside a time for God and for each other?
Ideally we would welcome you at a meeting of like-minded people. That is our biggest wish for the new season.
°°°
Financial support is always welcome at Argenta Bank: BE37 9730 6618 2528 with notification: “Operation Belgian Christadelphians” or “Support for Belgian Christadelphians“.
+
Preceding
Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
When seeing a biblically sound church
++
Additional reading
- Casual Christians
- Establish Priorities
- Expenses, costs – Onkosten, uitgaven
- Contribution – Contributie, bijdrage
- Be a ready giver
+++
Related
- Tomorrow
- Motives in Life
- Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself
- Do I Actually Need These People?
- We’re Sent Together, Not Alone
- Step Eight – Go into all the WorldWhy Should We Serve?
- Building a Christian Church
- Reconnecting with God
- Hope for those in Need
- 7 Ways to be closer to God
- The Importance of Coordination in Service
- Church and Community Working Together
- What are God’s people? What are the service-doers? | The Church of Almighty God
- Let there be Light
- Touch 101: Personal space in church
- Coming Home
Rate this:
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By the opening of the Season 2018-2019
After a marvellous great Summer we are looking forward with renewed energy for this new season.
Entrance of the Servicestation E40 – Texaco – Heverlee-Leuven where we had our breaking of bread service and biblestudy meetings with our ecclesia.It was to good to have the opportunity to meet in a very beautiful space, designed by Abscis Architects, in which they anchored from a future-oriented social commitment in the social, economic, historical and cultural context of the environment and created a place where travellers could come at ease.
We could count on the Cuiz’Inn restaurant where on the menu fresh and authentic dishes from all over the world could be found. That is why their motto was ‘Taste the world’. From Oriental wok dishes to Belgian classics: every recipe was given as much attention and care that made it possible to say that Cuiz’Inn was not just a roadside restaurant. In the open kitchen products were prepared fresh and on the spot. But that is now a thing of the past.
The interior of our ecclesia meeting room we now have to remember as a nice place we could use for such a short time.We shall have to look for a new meeting room, having our ecclesia meeting space being changed in a Starbuks Coffee saloon and a Burger King snackbar.
Brother Marcus Ampe shall be in the South of France until the 13th of October, after which he shall continue the search for an other meeting room. For a few weeks he shall take less time to think about the ecclesia work, taking some more time to walk in la douce France. After his Summer holiday he shall be once again all ears for those who need some help.
From mid October he will be back to work for one another’s welfare. Then he will encourage others again to be ready for each other, to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burden, to encourage and edify one another, and serve one another. Because that is what we should do at all times.
Whatever may happen, how much we may stay in the darkness concerning a meeting place around Brussels and Leuven, we shall try to look positive and shall keep the good spirit. Since the Facebook profiles timelines do not receive an update of the printed articles any more, we do hope people shall follow us on the Facebook pages: Christadelphia and Christadelphians.
For 2018-2019 we hope to continue with regular publications on this site and on the Brethren site Broeders in Christus, where you shall be able to find more articles in Dutch. From January 2019 you shall be able to find more regularly a devotion or a “Thought for the day” which shall follow our Daily Readings.
Our eyes shall also look at this world and give an eye from Christadelphian perspective on “Our World“. We also hope you shall find that blog of Brother Marcus, who by being very busy with some new bible translations and writing for some other Christian magazines, has somewhat neglected his own personal blog “Marcus Ampe’s space“.
Helping hands for the working of the Christadelphians in Belgium shall be very welcome. For sure we can use many hands and could also use some funds as well, having to face several costs which brings the ecclesia further in the red. Even when all the work is done voluntary, nobody receiving a payment for the preaching or work for the ecclesia, we have many costs, like internet-charges, publication and copyrights, postage fees, etc.. Doing no collections in the church service and not demanding a tenth of income, we depend on free gifts.
With much hope we look forward to find more readers, but also to find some people who would not mind meeting us in real life. We reach out our hand to find more people who would love to meet us. Like every believer in Christ, we need to feel that we are united in fellowship with one another, in the assurance that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Do you hunger to fellowship with others?
Remember, you cannot claim to walk with God and not walk with His people. Christ Jesus remembered his followers to come together regularly. He wanted that, after his death, they would continue to gather to praise his heavenly Father. But he also wanted them to meet each other at regular times to make sure they would feel united and willing to encourage each other.
Brown deer standing on grass beside river during daytime – wanting to cross the riverIt can well be that you too have to learn to fellowship with others and grow your faith in Christ Jesus. It is a task given by Christ Jesus. We should remember that. We also should remember that we should help each other to walk on the right path. We should give each-other a hand so that we can cross the wildest rivers.
Each day of our life we should remember that we are on our way to a better place. But we do have to look for the right station to catch the right train. To do that we need also to go to the right platform, where we shall be able to find people who are also willing to go on the track of life, from the darkness to the light. There we shall also find a special storyteller willing to go with us as a mentor and companion.
As an ecclesia, a bunch of people gathering with the intention to share their faith, we love to reach out our hand and to help people to cross the river and to bring them to save grounds and pathways where we can go forwards to reach the goal set before us by our divine Creator.
Jesus requested his followers not to stop meeting each other. For this we are still looking for places in Belgium to be able to realize this. If you have a room where we could come together you can always contact us. A meeting place to study the Bible and to praise and worship God does not have to be that special. Even in a living room one can come together to pray to God and form a community of believers.
This year too, we will try to make people realize that a small community of faith does not have to be that bad, but rather can be an advantage. Once again we invite others to join us for singing praises to God, praying together, listening to a message from the Word of God.
Every church needs people to shape and colour the community. Every church desperately needs people who make public meetings a top priority. Today is the day to start prioritizing the importance of the activities of your church in your life. Where are you and what do you want? Do you want to be part of true believers who want to fully serve Jehovah God with their hearts?
Everyone will have to realize that he or she also needs a church. We must see that God has made us a part of the church. Nobody can do it alone. We must realize that we are not strong enough on our own. Likewise, we must dare to be humble enough to recognize that we are not wise enough, not mature enough, and sometimes not godly enough. Without the beautiful, usual remedy that you experience in the church, you will not be able to save it. Without the support of your brothers and sisters in Christ, you will not be able to save it.
Then you also need to know that we also need you. The church needs you. It is together that believers in Christ have to make Church to form the body of Christ. If you are a believer, God has made you a part of the Church for the benefit of others. (1 Peter 4:10) says:
“As everyone has received a gift, you must serve each other as good ministers of the multiple mercy of God.”
God gave you to be part of the church that you have to make as your own church. You have to realize that you have received a lot from God, but that those gifts must also be shared with others. Those gifts that you received from God must be used for good use, also for other people. So we as a church give priority as an expression of generosity towards others.
We will also not fail to testify this year for Jehovah and His sentient. Without that God-given cornerstone we are not many, not to say nothing. All the partners in Christ must anchor themselves in the port provided by Jesus.
In our ecclesiae there is no collection plate passed. We know it could help us a lot and for members of the ecclesia it could be an easy way of sharing some of their possessions. Depending on free gifts we are very limited, even when nobody working for the ecclesia receives any money. All work is done freely. We do not have a staff payroll, because every work for God has to be done freely. As in the early church example, we do hope church members would not mind supporting the needs of other church members and shall be willing also to provide the means of having an established community of believers. Facing some great urgency for funds we dare to ask you if you would not like to help us. All sort of help is welcome. If someone can offer us a room to get together, it would be fantastic. If someone can provide us with some money to cover our expenses, that would be very nice.
Most of all we would appreciate it if we could find more people in Belgium interested in meeting with each other. Do you know that when you give a day to God, you can put aside all the worries of life. Together you can discuss many things with each other. By coming together you can share in the happiness of others. Together you can serve as supporters and strengthen each other. There are even many of the pleasures of life that we as brothers and sisters in Christ want and can share with each other. It therefore does not have to be a whole day spend with each other, where you invest time to worship God, serve the community and others. But what is it like to set aside a time for God and for each other?
Ideally we would welcome you at a meeting of like-minded people. That is our biggest wish for the new season.
°°°
Financial support is always welcome at Argenta Bank: BE37 9730 6618 2528 with notification: “Operation Belgian Christadelphians” or “Support for Belgian Christadelphians“.
+
Preceding
Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
When seeing a biblically sound church
++
Additional reading
- Casual Christians
- Establish Priorities
- Expenses, costs – Onkosten, uitgaven
- Contribution – Contributie, bijdrage
- Be a ready giver
+++
Related
- Tomorrow
- Motives in Life
- Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself
- Do I Actually Need These People?
- We’re Sent Together, Not Alone
- Step Eight – Go into all the WorldWhy Should We Serve?
- Building a Christian Church
- Reconnecting with God
- Hope for those in Need
- 7 Ways to be closer to God
- The Importance of Coordination in Service
- Church and Community Working Together
- What are God’s people? What are the service-doers? | The Church of Almighty God
- Let there be Light
- Touch 101: Personal space in church
- Coming Home
Rate this:
#2018 #2019 #BeingChurch #BeingPartOfTheBodyOfChrist #BelieverInChrist #BelieversInChrist #BodyOfChrist #Brussels #BurgerKing #ChristadelphiaFacebookPage #ChristadelphianMeetingRoom #Church #ChurchCommunity #ChurchPlanting #ChurchService #Collection #CuizInn #DailyReadingsBibleReadingPlan_ #Darkness #EcclesiaBrusselLeuven #Facebook #FacebookPage #Fellowship #FindingAChurch #FollowersOfChrist #FreeChristadelphiansFacebookPage #GoalOfMan #GoalReaching #HelpingEachOther #HeverleeLeuven_ #Leuven #MakingChurch #Meeting #PlaceOfWorship #PraiseGod #Priority #ServeGod #Starbucks #ThoughtForTheDay #TrueBelievers #UnitedInFellowship #Worship #WorshipService #WorshippingGod
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By the opening of the Season 2018-2019
After a marvellous great Summer we are looking forward with renewed energy for this new season.
Entrance of the Servicestation E40 – Texaco – Heverlee-Leuven where we had our breaking of bread service and biblestudy meetings with our ecclesia.It was to good to have the opportunity to meet in a very beautiful space, designed by Abscis Architects, in which they anchored from a future-oriented social commitment in the social, economic, historical and cultural context of the environment and created a place where travellers could come at ease.
We could count on the Cuiz’Inn restaurant where on the menu fresh and authentic dishes from all over the world could be found. That is why their motto was ‘Taste the world’. From Oriental wok dishes to Belgian classics: every recipe was given as much attention and care that made it possible to say that Cuiz’Inn was not just a roadside restaurant. In the open kitchen products were prepared fresh and on the spot. But that is now a thing of the past.
The interior of our ecclesia meeting room we now have to remember as a nice place we could use for such a short time.We shall have to look for a new meeting room, having our ecclesia meeting space being changed in a Starbuks Coffee saloon and a Burger King snackbar.
Brother Marcus Ampe shall be in the South of France until the 13th of October, after which he shall continue the search for an other meeting room. For a few weeks he shall take less time to think about the ecclesia work, taking some more time to walk in la douce France. After his Summer holiday he shall be once again all ears for those who need some help.
From mid October he will be back to work for one another’s welfare. Then he will encourage others again to be ready for each other, to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burden, to encourage and edify one another, and serve one another. Because that is what we should do at all times.
Whatever may happen, how much we may stay in the darkness concerning a meeting place around Brussels and Leuven, we shall try to look positive and shall keep the good spirit. Since the Facebook profiles timelines do not receive an update of the printed articles any more, we do hope people shall follow us on the Facebook pages: Christadelphia and Christadelphians.
For 2018-2019 we hope to continue with regular publications on this site and on the Brethren site Broeders in Christus, where you shall be able to find more articles in Dutch. From January 2019 you shall be able to find more regularly a devotion or a “Thought for the day” which shall follow our Daily Readings.
Our eyes shall also look at this world and give an eye from Christadelphian perspective on “Our World“. We also hope you shall find that blog of Brother Marcus, who by being very busy with some new bible translations and writing for some other Christian magazines, has somewhat neglected his own personal blog “Marcus Ampe’s space“.
Helping hands for the working of the Christadelphians in Belgium shall be very welcome. For sure we can use many hands and could also use some funds as well, having to face several costs which brings the ecclesia further in the red. Even when all the work is done voluntary, nobody receiving a payment for the preaching or work for the ecclesia, we have many costs, like internet-charges, publication and copyrights, postage fees, etc.. Doing no collections in the church service and not demanding a tenth of income, we depend on free gifts.
With much hope we look forward to find more readers, but also to find some people who would not mind meeting us in real life. We reach out our hand to find more people who would love to meet us. Like every believer in Christ, we need to feel that we are united in fellowship with one another, in the assurance that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Do you hunger to fellowship with others?
Remember, you cannot claim to walk with God and not walk with His people. Christ Jesus remembered his followers to come together regularly. He wanted that, after his death, they would continue to gather to praise his heavenly Father. But he also wanted them to meet each other at regular times to make sure they would feel united and willing to encourage each other.
Brown deer standing on grass beside river during daytime – wanting to cross the riverIt can well be that you too have to learn to fellowship with others and grow your faith in Christ Jesus. It is a task given by Christ Jesus. We should remember that. We also should remember that we should help each other to walk on the right path. We should give each-other a hand so that we can cross the wildest rivers.
Each day of our life we should remember that we are on our way to a better place. But we do have to look for the right station to catch the right train. To do that we need also to go to the right platform, where we shall be able to find people who are also willing to go on the track of life, from the darkness to the light. There we shall also find a special storyteller willing to go with us as a mentor and companion.
As an ecclesia, a bunch of people gathering with the intention to share their faith, we love to reach out our hand and to help people to cross the river and to bring them to save grounds and pathways where we can go forwards to reach the goal set before us by our divine Creator.
Jesus requested his followers not to stop meeting each other. For this we are still looking for places in Belgium to be able to realize this. If you have a room where we could come together you can always contact us. A meeting place to study the Bible and to praise and worship God does not have to be that special. Even in a living room one can come together to pray to God and form a community of believers.
This year too, we will try to make people realize that a small community of faith does not have to be that bad, but rather can be an advantage. Once again we invite others to join us for singing praises to God, praying together, listening to a message from the Word of God.
Every church needs people to shape and colour the community. Every church desperately needs people who make public meetings a top priority. Today is the day to start prioritizing the importance of the activities of your church in your life. Where are you and what do you want? Do you want to be part of true believers who want to fully serve Jehovah God with their hearts?
Everyone will have to realize that he or she also needs a church. We must see that God has made us a part of the church. Nobody can do it alone. We must realize that we are not strong enough on our own. Likewise, we must dare to be humble enough to recognize that we are not wise enough, not mature enough, and sometimes not godly enough. Without the beautiful, usual remedy that you experience in the church, you will not be able to save it. Without the support of your brothers and sisters in Christ, you will not be able to save it.
Then you also need to know that we also need you. The church needs you. It is together that believers in Christ have to make Church to form the body of Christ. If you are a believer, God has made you a part of the Church for the benefit of others. (1 Peter 4:10) says:
“As everyone has received a gift, you must serve each other as good ministers of the multiple mercy of God.”
God gave you to be part of the church that you have to make as your own church. You have to realize that you have received a lot from God, but that those gifts must also be shared with others. Those gifts that you received from God must be used for good use, also for other people. So we as a church give priority as an expression of generosity towards others.
We will also not fail to testify this year for Jehovah and His sentient. Without that God-given cornerstone we are not many, not to say nothing. All the partners in Christ must anchor themselves in the port provided by Jesus.
In our ecclesiae there is no collection plate passed. We know it could help us a lot and for members of the ecclesia it could be an easy way of sharing some of their possessions. Depending on free gifts we are very limited, even when nobody working for the ecclesia receives any money. All work is done freely. We do not have a staff payroll, because every work for God has to be done freely. As in the early church example, we do hope church members would not mind supporting the needs of other church members and shall be willing also to provide the means of having an established community of believers. Facing some great urgency for funds we dare to ask you if you would not like to help us. All sort of help is welcome. If someone can offer us a room to get together, it would be fantastic. If someone can provide us with some money to cover our expenses, that would be very nice.
Most of all we would appreciate it if we could find more people in Belgium interested in meeting with each other. Do you know that when you give a day to God, you can put aside all the worries of life. Together you can discuss many things with each other. By coming together you can share in the happiness of others. Together you can serve as supporters and strengthen each other. There are even many of the pleasures of life that we as brothers and sisters in Christ want and can share with each other. It therefore does not have to be a whole day spend with each other, where you invest time to worship God, serve the community and others. But what is it like to set aside a time for God and for each other?
Ideally we would welcome you at a meeting of like-minded people. That is our biggest wish for the new season.
°°°
Financial support is always welcome at Argenta Bank: BE37 9730 6618 2528 with notification: “Operation Belgian Christadelphians” or “Support for Belgian Christadelphians“.
+
Preceding
Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
When seeing a biblically sound church
++
Additional reading
- Casual Christians
- Establish Priorities
- Expenses, costs – Onkosten, uitgaven
- Contribution – Contributie, bijdrage
- Be a ready giver
+++
Related
- Tomorrow
- Motives in Life
- Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself
- Do I Actually Need These People?
- We’re Sent Together, Not Alone
- Step Eight – Go into all the WorldWhy Should We Serve?
- Building a Christian Church
- Reconnecting with God
- Hope for those in Need
- 7 Ways to be closer to God
- The Importance of Coordination in Service
- Church and Community Working Together
- What are God’s people? What are the service-doers? | The Church of Almighty God
- Let there be Light
- Touch 101: Personal space in church
- Coming Home
Rate this:
#2018 #2019 #BeingChurch #BeingPartOfTheBodyOfChrist #BelieverInChrist #BelieversInChrist #BodyOfChrist #Brussels #BurgerKing #ChristadelphiaFacebookPage #ChristadelphianMeetingRoom #Church #ChurchCommunity #ChurchPlanting #ChurchService #Collection #CuizInn #DailyReadingsBibleReadingPlan_ #Darkness #EcclesiaBrusselLeuven #Facebook #FacebookPage #Fellowship #FindingAChurch #FollowersOfChrist #FreeChristadelphiansFacebookPage #GoalOfMan #GoalReaching #HelpingEachOther #HeverleeLeuven_ #Leuven #MakingChurch #Meeting #PlaceOfWorship #PraiseGod #Priority #ServeGod #Starbucks #ThoughtForTheDay #TrueBelievers #UnitedInFellowship #Worship #WorshipService #WorshippingGod
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If no one died because of War – how different would worlds appear to be
If no one died because of War — how different would worlds appear to be.
You may wonder why there is so much trouble in this world. Some would say religion is the cause of all that trouble, but they should know that there are more killings by non-religious terror acts or secular related violence.
Man also should know he can do a lot to avoid friction and war. We have more in our hands than we think. In case more people would keep to the teachings of the Word of God we would already have a much better world and more peaceful to live in.
speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The year 2017 opened with people doing their utmost best to bring division between religious people. Men like Donald Trump who bring ridiculous measures which do not make sense, like not allowing people from different Muslim countries but those from the state who pays a lot of money to jihad fighters are allowed to enter the U.S.A. like they never provided terrorists for September 9 2001. It seems suddenly the president of the United States of America and lost of its citizens do not remember that attack any more or do not see any more the connection with Saudi Arabia. The cradle of the extreme Muslim faith stays untouched whilst people coming form other and often moderate groups or even Muslims who flee the conservative Muslim teachings are refused to enter the Courtney.
English: Tomb of Muhammad in Madinah, Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The land which was once the land of the free where many sought to find better pastures, has now lots of egoist citizens who have forgotten their ancestors roots. Many, not to say most of them, forget they once came from refugees and from people leaving their country because it was not offering what they wanted or hoped for. Now when their over-grand-kids have it so good they hate it to share some of their goodness and richness with others.
I may be that we are facing coming difficult times. For sure we can see that lots of people who have it grand, and not have to worry about daily food and water and not having to face the horror of war, can not find themselves willing to come to help those in need. And everyone seems to be preoccupied and worried. Strange in the land where we can find a huge Bible-belt and hear from so many ‘active Christians’ we can see the least Christian attitude.
When more politicians in Europe also want to frighten people for the Muslim community and the Jewish community and want to bring on more protectionist regulations for their own country instead of working together making good commercial treaties, the world is going to become in a bigger mess. Many also have forgotten how some of the immigrants made their country big (look at those international corporations like Apple, Google). Many Americans seem to forget how the labour-force from outside is also important and how those immigrants and manufactures are as necessary to their independence as to their comfort.
Followers of Jesus Christ, who regularly read the Bible can see many signs which should worry but also could us make us more pleased that a certain time is coming closer.
Withstanding we should do our utmost best to preach peach. We should do everything to show others the Way to God and the way for being able to live in peace. They do know that the world is now in the hands of man but in the end it shall always be God which has everything under control.
— to see — to hear — to here — to know —
It is no dream,we have to get out of our own cocoon and egoistic dreams, stepping into the world and showing that there are better ways than the political escapades.
We are clearly coming into days that the prophecies of ancient times are again of such importance like at the time when Jesus was born.
In a way we should not worry for tomorrow, because we do know God has a Plan and His Plan shall come to into existence whatever man may do to break it down or to kill the followers of His sent one.
Bible readers do know there will be signs and are able to come to see sings, enabling them to prepare for a big time of unrest and turmoil. We should all know that we are going to head to that World War III. How we shall be able to cope with it and perhaps to survive or even shall not have to be afraid to die in it, followers of Jesus do know he is the way and that his heavenly Father is the Most High we can trust. In Him we do trust and have placed our hope for a better future.“9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.” (Psalms 9:9-10 ASV)
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Additional reading
- If there is bitterness in the heart
- Do not be so busy adding up your troubles
- God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
- Do the appropriate for a friend
- A small trouble is like a pebble
- She who sows thistles will reap prickles
- A Breath for tomorrow
- Trouble is coming
- High time to show the way to peace
- Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
- The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
- Stronger than anything that wants to destroy
- ISIL will find no safe haven
- Caliphs and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government
- Funding of ISIS
- Is ISIS a product of American in-action or a product of direct action
- From the Ramadan into the eid
- Honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity and humanity losing faith in God
- Darkest just before dawn
- When will it stop
- How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace
- You Matter
- Daily Spiritual Food To prepare ourselves for the Kingdom of God
- God’s wrath and sanctification
- People Seeking for God 3 Laws and directions
- Helping websites to prepare for the last days
- How can we prepare for the Kingdom of God
+++
Further reading
- The People, The Press, The President: Breaking Down Walls
- Trump storm lands Theresa May in trouble over state visit inviteToday’s Thought: Drifting Towards the ColdIn Times of Trouble 28 january 2017
- When it all becomes too much to bear…
- Drowning in chaos
- The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump
- A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Executive Order on ImmigrationResearch Libraries, University Presses Oppose Trump’s Immigration Order American Film Institute Backs Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, Denounces Trump’s Travel Ban
- Trump Will Nominate Self To Supreme Court
- Democrats’ Legal Wars with Trump Administration Have Begun
- Anti-Trump protesters aim to be ‘the left-wing tea party’
- ISIS try to capitalise off Trump
- Stand Up Against Trump Demonstration
- Dutch government opposes Trump’s xenophobic border controls
- Bringing up a child in the time of Trump
- Not Me Worry
- Monday Mayhem: Beat the Blues by Doing Good
- Don’t Worry
- Words of Life–Psalm 9:9,10
- Psalm 81: Remember, then praise
- Ungrateful Me
- The Little Things
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Related articles
- Track of the Day: ‘Democracy’ by Leonard Cohen
- Trump’s nominee for Commerce secretary calls himself ‘pro-trade’ so long as it’s ‘sensible-trade’
- Actors’ acceptance speeches at SAG awards turn into protest against Trump Muslim ban
- What’s Your Message To President-Elect Donald Trump?
- Celebrities React to Donald Trump’s Inauguration
- President Trump has officially taken over @POTUS
- Top 10 Reasons President Trump Will Be A Great Success
- Different perspectives on Donald Trump from our international team
- There is still no date when May or Johnson will meet Trump
- What Does it Really Mean to Be a Radical Follower of Jesus?
Rate this:
#2017 #BibleBeltUnitedStates_ #BibleReaderS_ #ChristianAttitude #Division #DonaldTrump #Europe #FollowersOfChrist #GodsPlan #HelpingOthers #HorrorOfWar #Immigrants #LandOfTheFree #Peace #Politicians #Preaching #Protectionism #Refugees #ReligiousPeople #SaudiArabia #theOnesInNeed #theWayToGod #theWayToPeace #toPreach #toPrepare #TrustGod #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Violence #War #WorldWarIII
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If no one died because of War – how different would worlds appear to be
If no one died because of War — how different would worlds appear to be.
You may wonder why there is so much trouble in this world. Some would say religion is the cause of all that trouble, but they should know that there are more killings by non-religious terror acts or secular related violence.
Man also should know he can do a lot to avoid friction and war. We have more in our hands than we think. In case more people would keep to the teachings of the Word of God we would already have a much better world and more peaceful to live in.
speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The year 2017 opened with people doing their utmost best to bring division between religious people. Men like Donald Trump who bring ridiculous measures which do not make sense, like not allowing people from different Muslim countries but those from the state who pays a lot of money to jihad fighters are allowed to enter the U.S.A. like they never provided terrorists for September 9 2001. It seems suddenly the president of the United States of America and lost of its citizens do not remember that attack any more or do not see any more the connection with Saudi Arabia. The cradle of the extreme Muslim faith stays untouched whilst people coming form other and often moderate groups or even Muslims who flee the conservative Muslim teachings are refused to enter the Courtney.
English: Tomb of Muhammad in Madinah, Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The land which was once the land of the free where many sought to find better pastures, has now lots of egoist citizens who have forgotten their ancestors roots. Many, not to say most of them, forget they once came from refugees and from people leaving their country because it was not offering what they wanted or hoped for. Now when their over-grand-kids have it so good they hate it to share some of their goodness and richness with others.
I may be that we are facing coming difficult times. For sure we can see that lots of people who have it grand, and not have to worry about daily food and water and not having to face the horror of war, can not find themselves willing to come to help those in need. And everyone seems to be preoccupied and worried. Strange in the land where we can find a huge Bible-belt and hear from so many ‘active Christians’ we can see the least Christian attitude.
When more politicians in Europe also want to frighten people for the Muslim community and the Jewish community and want to bring on more protectionist regulations for their own country instead of working together making good commercial treaties, the world is going to become in a bigger mess. Many also have forgotten how some of the immigrants made their country big (look at those international corporations like Apple, Google). Many Americans seem to forget how the labour-force from outside is also important and how those immigrants and manufactures are as necessary to their independence as to their comfort.
Followers of Jesus Christ, who regularly read the Bible can see many signs which should worry but also could us make us more pleased that a certain time is coming closer.
Withstanding we should do our utmost best to preach peach. We should do everything to show others the Way to God and the way for being able to live in peace. They do know that the world is now in the hands of man but in the end it shall always be God which has everything under control.
— to see — to hear — to here — to know —
It is no dream,we have to get out of our own cocoon and egoistic dreams, stepping into the world and showing that there are better ways than the political escapades.
We are clearly coming into days that the prophecies of ancient times are again of such importance like at the time when Jesus was born.
In a way we should not worry for tomorrow, because we do know God has a Plan and His Plan shall come to into existence whatever man may do to break it down or to kill the followers of His sent one.
Bible readers do know there will be signs and are able to come to see sings, enabling them to prepare for a big time of unrest and turmoil. We should all know that we are going to head to that World War III. How we shall be able to cope with it and perhaps to survive or even shall not have to be afraid to die in it, followers of Jesus do know he is the way and that his heavenly Father is the Most High we can trust. In Him we do trust and have placed our hope for a better future.“9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.” (Psalms 9:9-10 ASV)
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Additional reading
- If there is bitterness in the heart
- Do not be so busy adding up your troubles
- God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
- Do the appropriate for a friend
- A small trouble is like a pebble
- She who sows thistles will reap prickles
- A Breath for tomorrow
- Trouble is coming
- High time to show the way to peace
- Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
- The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
- Stronger than anything that wants to destroy
- ISIL will find no safe haven
- Caliphs and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government
- Funding of ISIS
- Is ISIS a product of American in-action or a product of direct action
- From the Ramadan into the eid
- Honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity and humanity losing faith in God
- Darkest just before dawn
- When will it stop
- How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace
- You Matter
- Daily Spiritual Food To prepare ourselves for the Kingdom of God
- God’s wrath and sanctification
- People Seeking for God 3 Laws and directions
- Helping websites to prepare for the last days
- How can we prepare for the Kingdom of God
+++
Further reading
- The People, The Press, The President: Breaking Down Walls
- Trump storm lands Theresa May in trouble over state visit inviteToday’s Thought: Drifting Towards the ColdIn Times of Trouble 28 january 2017
- When it all becomes too much to bear…
- Drowning in chaos
- The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump
- A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Executive Order on ImmigrationResearch Libraries, University Presses Oppose Trump’s Immigration Order American Film Institute Backs Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, Denounces Trump’s Travel Ban
- Trump Will Nominate Self To Supreme Court
- Democrats’ Legal Wars with Trump Administration Have Begun
- Anti-Trump protesters aim to be ‘the left-wing tea party’
- ISIS try to capitalise off Trump
- Stand Up Against Trump Demonstration
- Dutch government opposes Trump’s xenophobic border controls
- Bringing up a child in the time of Trump
- Not Me Worry
- Monday Mayhem: Beat the Blues by Doing Good
- Don’t Worry
- Words of Life–Psalm 9:9,10
- Psalm 81: Remember, then praise
- Ungrateful Me
- The Little Things
+++
Related articles
- Track of the Day: ‘Democracy’ by Leonard Cohen
- Trump’s nominee for Commerce secretary calls himself ‘pro-trade’ so long as it’s ‘sensible-trade’
- Actors’ acceptance speeches at SAG awards turn into protest against Trump Muslim ban
- What’s Your Message To President-Elect Donald Trump?
- Celebrities React to Donald Trump’s Inauguration
- President Trump has officially taken over @POTUS
- Top 10 Reasons President Trump Will Be A Great Success
- Different perspectives on Donald Trump from our international team
- There is still no date when May or Johnson will meet Trump
- What Does it Really Mean to Be a Radical Follower of Jesus?
Rate this:
#2017 #BibleBeltUnitedStates_ #BibleReaderS_ #ChristianAttitude #Division #DonaldTrump #Europe #FollowersOfChrist #GodsPlan #HelpingOthers #HorrorOfWar #Immigrants #LandOfTheFree #Peace #Politicians #Preaching #Protectionism #Refugees #ReligiousPeople #SaudiArabia #theOnesInNeed #theWayToGod #theWayToPeace #toPreach #toPrepare #TrustGod #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Violence #War #WorldWarIII
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If no one died because of War – how different would worlds appear to be
If no one died because of War — how different would worlds appear to be.
You may wonder why there is so much trouble in this world. Some would say religion is the cause of all that trouble, but they should know that there are more killings by non-religious terror acts or secular related violence.
Man also should know he can do a lot to avoid friction and war. We have more in our hands than we think. In case more people would keep to the teachings of the Word of God we would already have a much better world and more peaceful to live in.
speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The year 2017 opened with people doing their utmost best to bring division between religious people. Men like Donald Trump who bring ridiculous measures which do not make sense, like not allowing people from different Muslim countries but those from the state who pays a lot of money to jihad fighters are allowed to enter the U.S.A. like they never provided terrorists for September 9 2001. It seems suddenly the president of the United States of America and lost of its citizens do not remember that attack any more or do not see any more the connection with Saudi Arabia. The cradle of the extreme Muslim faith stays untouched whilst people coming form other and often moderate groups or even Muslims who flee the conservative Muslim teachings are refused to enter the Courtney.
English: Tomb of Muhammad in Madinah, Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The land which was once the land of the free where many sought to find better pastures, has now lots of egoist citizens who have forgotten their ancestors roots. Many, not to say most of them, forget they once came from refugees and from people leaving their country because it was not offering what they wanted or hoped for. Now when their over-grand-kids have it so good they hate it to share some of their goodness and richness with others.
I may be that we are facing coming difficult times. For sure we can see that lots of people who have it grand, and not have to worry about daily food and water and not having to face the horror of war, can not find themselves willing to come to help those in need. And everyone seems to be preoccupied and worried. Strange in the land where we can find a huge Bible-belt and hear from so many ‘active Christians’ we can see the least Christian attitude.
When more politicians in Europe also want to frighten people for the Muslim community and the Jewish community and want to bring on more protectionist regulations for their own country instead of working together making good commercial treaties, the world is going to become in a bigger mess. Many also have forgotten how some of the immigrants made their country big (look at those international corporations like Apple, Google). Many Americans seem to forget how the labour-force from outside is also important and how those immigrants and manufactures are as necessary to their independence as to their comfort.
Followers of Jesus Christ, who regularly read the Bible can see many signs which should worry but also could us make us more pleased that a certain time is coming closer.
Withstanding we should do our utmost best to preach peach. We should do everything to show others the Way to God and the way for being able to live in peace. They do know that the world is now in the hands of man but in the end it shall always be God which has everything under control.
— to see — to hear — to here — to know —
It is no dream,we have to get out of our own cocoon and egoistic dreams, stepping into the world and showing that there are better ways than the political escapades.
We are clearly coming into days that the prophecies of ancient times are again of such importance like at the time when Jesus was born.
In a way we should not worry for tomorrow, because we do know God has a Plan and His Plan shall come to into existence whatever man may do to break it down or to kill the followers of His sent one.
Bible readers do know there will be signs and are able to come to see sings, enabling them to prepare for a big time of unrest and turmoil. We should all know that we are going to head to that World War III. How we shall be able to cope with it and perhaps to survive or even shall not have to be afraid to die in it, followers of Jesus do know he is the way and that his heavenly Father is the Most High we can trust. In Him we do trust and have placed our hope for a better future.“9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.” (Psalms 9:9-10 ASV)
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Additional reading
- If there is bitterness in the heart
- Do not be so busy adding up your troubles
- God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
- Do the appropriate for a friend
- A small trouble is like a pebble
- She who sows thistles will reap prickles
- A Breath for tomorrow
- Trouble is coming
- High time to show the way to peace
- Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
- The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
- Stronger than anything that wants to destroy
- ISIL will find no safe haven
- Caliphs and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government
- Funding of ISIS
- Is ISIS a product of American in-action or a product of direct action
- From the Ramadan into the eid
- Honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity and humanity losing faith in God
- Darkest just before dawn
- When will it stop
- How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace
- You Matter
- Daily Spiritual Food To prepare ourselves for the Kingdom of God
- God’s wrath and sanctification
- People Seeking for God 3 Laws and directions
- Helping websites to prepare for the last days
- How can we prepare for the Kingdom of God
+++
Further reading
- The People, The Press, The President: Breaking Down Walls
- Trump storm lands Theresa May in trouble over state visit inviteToday’s Thought: Drifting Towards the ColdIn Times of Trouble 28 january 2017
- When it all becomes too much to bear…
- Drowning in chaos
- The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump
- A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Executive Order on ImmigrationResearch Libraries, University Presses Oppose Trump’s Immigration Order American Film Institute Backs Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, Denounces Trump’s Travel Ban
- Trump Will Nominate Self To Supreme Court
- Democrats’ Legal Wars with Trump Administration Have Begun
- Anti-Trump protesters aim to be ‘the left-wing tea party’
- ISIS try to capitalise off Trump
- Stand Up Against Trump Demonstration
- Dutch government opposes Trump’s xenophobic border controls
- Bringing up a child in the time of Trump
- Not Me Worry
- Monday Mayhem: Beat the Blues by Doing Good
- Don’t Worry
- Words of Life–Psalm 9:9,10
- Psalm 81: Remember, then praise
- Ungrateful Me
- The Little Things
+++
Related articles
- Track of the Day: ‘Democracy’ by Leonard Cohen
- Trump’s nominee for Commerce secretary calls himself ‘pro-trade’ so long as it’s ‘sensible-trade’
- Actors’ acceptance speeches at SAG awards turn into protest against Trump Muslim ban
- What’s Your Message To President-Elect Donald Trump?
- Celebrities React to Donald Trump’s Inauguration
- President Trump has officially taken over @POTUS
- Top 10 Reasons President Trump Will Be A Great Success
- Different perspectives on Donald Trump from our international team
- There is still no date when May or Johnson will meet Trump
- What Does it Really Mean to Be a Radical Follower of Jesus?
Rate this:
#2017 #BibleBeltUnitedStates_ #BibleReaderS_ #ChristianAttitude #Division #DonaldTrump #Europe #FollowersOfChrist #GodsPlan #HelpingOthers #HorrorOfWar #Immigrants #LandOfTheFree #Peace #Politicians #Preaching #Protectionism #Refugees #ReligiousPeople #SaudiArabia #theOnesInNeed #theWayToGod #theWayToPeace #toPreach #toPrepare #TrustGod #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Violence #War #WorldWarIII
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If no one died because of War – how different would worlds appear to be
If no one died because of War — how different would worlds appear to be.
You may wonder why there is so much trouble in this world. Some would say religion is the cause of all that trouble, but they should know that there are more killings by non-religious terror acts or secular related violence.
Man also should know he can do a lot to avoid friction and war. We have more in our hands than we think. In case more people would keep to the teachings of the Word of God we would already have a much better world and more peaceful to live in.
speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The year 2017 opened with people doing their utmost best to bring division between religious people. Men like Donald Trump who bring ridiculous measures which do not make sense, like not allowing people from different Muslim countries but those from the state who pays a lot of money to jihad fighters are allowed to enter the U.S.A. like they never provided terrorists for September 9 2001. It seems suddenly the president of the United States of America and lost of its citizens do not remember that attack any more or do not see any more the connection with Saudi Arabia. The cradle of the extreme Muslim faith stays untouched whilst people coming form other and often moderate groups or even Muslims who flee the conservative Muslim teachings are refused to enter the Courtney.
English: Tomb of Muhammad in Madinah, Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The land which was once the land of the free where many sought to find better pastures, has now lots of egoist citizens who have forgotten their ancestors roots. Many, not to say most of them, forget they once came from refugees and from people leaving their country because it was not offering what they wanted or hoped for. Now when their over-grand-kids have it so good they hate it to share some of their goodness and richness with others.
I may be that we are facing coming difficult times. For sure we can see that lots of people who have it grand, and not have to worry about daily food and water and not having to face the horror of war, can not find themselves willing to come to help those in need. And everyone seems to be preoccupied and worried. Strange in the land where we can find a huge Bible-belt and hear from so many ‘active Christians’ we can see the least Christian attitude.
When more politicians in Europe also want to frighten people for the Muslim community and the Jewish community and want to bring on more protectionist regulations for their own country instead of working together making good commercial treaties, the world is going to become in a bigger mess. Many also have forgotten how some of the immigrants made their country big (look at those international corporations like Apple, Google). Many Americans seem to forget how the labour-force from outside is also important and how those immigrants and manufactures are as necessary to their independence as to their comfort.
Followers of Jesus Christ, who regularly read the Bible can see many signs which should worry but also could us make us more pleased that a certain time is coming closer.
Withstanding we should do our utmost best to preach peach. We should do everything to show others the Way to God and the way for being able to live in peace. They do know that the world is now in the hands of man but in the end it shall always be God which has everything under control.
— to see — to hear — to here — to know —
It is no dream,we have to get out of our own cocoon and egoistic dreams, stepping into the world and showing that there are better ways than the political escapades.
We are clearly coming into days that the prophecies of ancient times are again of such importance like at the time when Jesus was born.
In a way we should not worry for tomorrow, because we do know God has a Plan and His Plan shall come to into existence whatever man may do to break it down or to kill the followers of His sent one.
Bible readers do know there will be signs and are able to come to see sings, enabling them to prepare for a big time of unrest and turmoil. We should all know that we are going to head to that World War III. How we shall be able to cope with it and perhaps to survive or even shall not have to be afraid to die in it, followers of Jesus do know he is the way and that his heavenly Father is the Most High we can trust. In Him we do trust and have placed our hope for a better future.“9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.” (Psalms 9:9-10 ASV)
++
Additional reading
- If there is bitterness in the heart
- Do not be so busy adding up your troubles
- God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
- Do the appropriate for a friend
- A small trouble is like a pebble
- She who sows thistles will reap prickles
- A Breath for tomorrow
- Trouble is coming
- High time to show the way to peace
- Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
- The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
- Stronger than anything that wants to destroy
- ISIL will find no safe haven
- Caliphs and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government
- Funding of ISIS
- Is ISIS a product of American in-action or a product of direct action
- From the Ramadan into the eid
- Honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity and humanity losing faith in God
- Darkest just before dawn
- When will it stop
- How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace
- You Matter
- Daily Spiritual Food To prepare ourselves for the Kingdom of God
- God’s wrath and sanctification
- People Seeking for God 3 Laws and directions
- Helping websites to prepare for the last days
- How can we prepare for the Kingdom of God
+++
Further reading
- The People, The Press, The President: Breaking Down Walls
- Trump storm lands Theresa May in trouble over state visit inviteToday’s Thought: Drifting Towards the ColdIn Times of Trouble 28 january 2017
- When it all becomes too much to bear…
- Drowning in chaos
- The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump
- A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Executive Order on ImmigrationResearch Libraries, University Presses Oppose Trump’s Immigration Order American Film Institute Backs Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, Denounces Trump’s Travel Ban
- Trump Will Nominate Self To Supreme Court
- Democrats’ Legal Wars with Trump Administration Have Begun
- Anti-Trump protesters aim to be ‘the left-wing tea party’
- ISIS try to capitalise off Trump
- Stand Up Against Trump Demonstration
- Dutch government opposes Trump’s xenophobic border controls
- Bringing up a child in the time of Trump
- Not Me Worry
- Monday Mayhem: Beat the Blues by Doing Good
- Don’t Worry
- Words of Life–Psalm 9:9,10
- Psalm 81: Remember, then praise
- Ungrateful Me
- The Little Things
+++
Related articles
- Track of the Day: ‘Democracy’ by Leonard Cohen
- Trump’s nominee for Commerce secretary calls himself ‘pro-trade’ so long as it’s ‘sensible-trade’
- Actors’ acceptance speeches at SAG awards turn into protest against Trump Muslim ban
- What’s Your Message To President-Elect Donald Trump?
- Celebrities React to Donald Trump’s Inauguration
- President Trump has officially taken over @POTUS
- Top 10 Reasons President Trump Will Be A Great Success
- Different perspectives on Donald Trump from our international team
- There is still no date when May or Johnson will meet Trump
- What Does it Really Mean to Be a Radical Follower of Jesus?
Rate this:
#2017 #BibleBeltUnitedStates_ #BibleReaderS_ #ChristianAttitude #Division #DonaldTrump #Europe #FollowersOfChrist #GodsPlan #HelpingOthers #HorrorOfWar #Immigrants #LandOfTheFree #Peace #Politicians #Preaching #Protectionism #Refugees #ReligiousPeople #SaudiArabia #theOnesInNeed #theWayToGod #theWayToPeace #toPreach #toPrepare #TrustGod #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Violence #War #WorldWarIII
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If no one died because of War – how different would worlds appear to be
If no one died because of War — how different would worlds appear to be.
You may wonder why there is so much trouble in this world. Some would say religion is the cause of all that trouble, but they should know that there are more killings by non-religious terror acts or secular related violence.
Man also should know he can do a lot to avoid friction and war. We have more in our hands than we think. In case more people would keep to the teachings of the Word of God we would already have a much better world and more peaceful to live in.
speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The year 2017 opened with people doing their utmost best to bring division between religious people. Men like Donald Trump who bring ridiculous measures which do not make sense, like not allowing people from different Muslim countries but those from the state who pays a lot of money to jihad fighters are allowed to enter the U.S.A. like they never provided terrorists for September 9 2001. It seems suddenly the president of the United States of America and lost of its citizens do not remember that attack any more or do not see any more the connection with Saudi Arabia. The cradle of the extreme Muslim faith stays untouched whilst people coming form other and often moderate groups or even Muslims who flee the conservative Muslim teachings are refused to enter the Courtney.
English: Tomb of Muhammad in Madinah, Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The land which was once the land of the free where many sought to find better pastures, has now lots of egoist citizens who have forgotten their ancestors roots. Many, not to say most of them, forget they once came from refugees and from people leaving their country because it was not offering what they wanted or hoped for. Now when their over-grand-kids have it so good they hate it to share some of their goodness and richness with others.
I may be that we are facing coming difficult times. For sure we can see that lots of people who have it grand, and not have to worry about daily food and water and not having to face the horror of war, can not find themselves willing to come to help those in need. And everyone seems to be preoccupied and worried. Strange in the land where we can find a huge Bible-belt and hear from so many ‘active Christians’ we can see the least Christian attitude.
When more politicians in Europe also want to frighten people for the Muslim community and the Jewish community and want to bring on more protectionist regulations for their own country instead of working together making good commercial treaties, the world is going to become in a bigger mess. Many also have forgotten how some of the immigrants made their country big (look at those international corporations like Apple, Google). Many Americans seem to forget how the labour-force from outside is also important and how those immigrants and manufactures are as necessary to their independence as to their comfort.
Followers of Jesus Christ, who regularly read the Bible can see many signs which should worry but also could us make us more pleased that a certain time is coming closer.
Withstanding we should do our utmost best to preach peach. We should do everything to show others the Way to God and the way for being able to live in peace. They do know that the world is now in the hands of man but in the end it shall always be God which has everything under control.
— to see — to hear — to here — to know —
It is no dream,we have to get out of our own cocoon and egoistic dreams, stepping into the world and showing that there are better ways than the political escapades.
We are clearly coming into days that the prophecies of ancient times are again of such importance like at the time when Jesus was born.
In a way we should not worry for tomorrow, because we do know God has a Plan and His Plan shall come to into existence whatever man may do to break it down or to kill the followers of His sent one.
Bible readers do know there will be signs and are able to come to see sings, enabling them to prepare for a big time of unrest and turmoil. We should all know that we are going to head to that World War III. How we shall be able to cope with it and perhaps to survive or even shall not have to be afraid to die in it, followers of Jesus do know he is the way and that his heavenly Father is the Most High we can trust. In Him we do trust and have placed our hope for a better future.“9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.” (Psalms 9:9-10 ASV)
++
Additional reading
- If there is bitterness in the heart
- Do not be so busy adding up your troubles
- God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
- Do the appropriate for a friend
- A small trouble is like a pebble
- She who sows thistles will reap prickles
- A Breath for tomorrow
- Trouble is coming
- High time to show the way to peace
- Blinded crying blue murder having being made afraid by a bugaboo
- The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle
- Stronger than anything that wants to destroy
- ISIL will find no safe haven
- Caliphs and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government
- Funding of ISIS
- Is ISIS a product of American in-action or a product of direct action
- From the Ramadan into the eid
- Honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity and humanity losing faith in God
- Darkest just before dawn
- When will it stop
- How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace
- You Matter
- Daily Spiritual Food To prepare ourselves for the Kingdom of God
- God’s wrath and sanctification
- People Seeking for God 3 Laws and directions
- Helping websites to prepare for the last days
- How can we prepare for the Kingdom of God
+++
Further reading
- The People, The Press, The President: Breaking Down Walls
- Trump storm lands Theresa May in trouble over state visit inviteToday’s Thought: Drifting Towards the ColdIn Times of Trouble 28 january 2017
- When it all becomes too much to bear…
- Drowning in chaos
- The Internet Is Having a Field Day With This Photo of President Trump
- A Few Thoughts on Trump’s Executive Order on ImmigrationResearch Libraries, University Presses Oppose Trump’s Immigration Order American Film Institute Backs Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, Denounces Trump’s Travel Ban
- Trump Will Nominate Self To Supreme Court
- Democrats’ Legal Wars with Trump Administration Have Begun
- Anti-Trump protesters aim to be ‘the left-wing tea party’
- ISIS try to capitalise off Trump
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The Big conversation Why it matters
Looking at our small community we must remember that it is God Who calls and for what we can offer in our community He takes what we have and makes it go further!
- Church is the place to bring empty lives for God to fill.
- Church is about meeting not just meetings!
In our previous postings we also pointed out that some people may have a wrong opinion about unity and expect all people in a community to say the same and to act the same. But “being one” doesn’t mean “being a clone”. God blesses unity! And we should have and should share our unity in Christ and unity with Christ. All being one in following the teachings of Christ, believing what he says and following up what he asked his followers to do. Not just following a church because it pleases us but because it follows the teachings of the son of God, Jesus Christ, and stays truthful to the Words of God, following God’s Will and willing to share His Gospel. Our union should be in the love for God which should be noticeable for outsiders, being a union of loving people, loving Jehovah God and His son Christ Jesus, Jeshua the Messiah, as lovers of the truth, sharing this love and Good News and spreading unselfish, mutual, unconditional Agape brotherly love and love for all creation under the Covenant of love as beloved disciples and as Bible lovers making a circle of love under the Royal Law of love.
Having different people coming together there should be allowance for every one to have their say. All gathered should have respect for all present and give them the opportunity to share their ideas. Being together it also must be an occasion where public confession, based on a word from God, can take place. This may demand courage to stand up and declare truth, but in a real church of God this should not be a problem because that has to be a place of sharing the love of Christ and working at getting the love of God.
Spending time together to study the Word of God, must do something to those present. Change is inevitable…
except from a vending machine
said Arne Roberts, on October the tenth, at the Big Conversation. For him it is clear what is going to happen to other Bible Students which all came form the same source.
Here’s what will happen to Jehovah’s Witnesses: They will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced Charles Russell: The Christadelphians…
The Christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy “Christian” group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide. They grew exponentially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past. For several decades now they resemble a heavy rusty old steam locomotive that is running out of speed as it lumbers along ill-kept tracks, but still tries to muster the motion needed to take on steep mountain slopes.
The Christadelphians ooze sad irrelevance and faded glory of times well passed. They are an old people’s religion – old people who don’t have the self- and other-awareness to see that they are clinging to a dead dream. The Christadelphians have long since passed their used-by date and the only ones who still ‘practice’ this religion are older individuals who cannot muster the strength to look out their windows at the real world passing them by.
This is the future of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who will not go out with a bang, but who will slowly whimper to an ever slower crawl as the decades pass and the world, in its infinite fascination with religious novelty, will fix its distractable attention on to other more modern belief systems.
For Arne Roberts that is not the end. He asks us to keep in mind that we are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
We as followers of Christ should make sure that the Clarion of the Torah may sound. We hearing the sound loudly should make sure that there might be a stimulant for others in our community 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.
Our very tiny community at a Breaking of Bread gathering at our regular meeting place, the service centre in Heverlee, Leuven.When people just not come to join others because they are part of a small community than that community shall never have any chance of growing. When people keep waiting before willing to join a small community because it does not attract them for it is so small that they shall be noticed, we do have to convince them that they should not hide themselves behind the numbers. It is true that when there is a small church people will be noticed. In a mega church nobody shall notice it when you come in later, slip out earlier, shall fall asleep or shall not be attentional. When we encounter such doubting people who are afraid to join a small church we can ask them
How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
It is up to us that God is in our life and that we want to share it with them. They should not be afraid to feel having a naked identity it such a small group, because as followers of Christ Jesus we have abandoned our sinful ‘I’ and actually have taken an other identity, no identity of our own apart from our union with Christ. Not that we have no unique personality or value or purpose, but that Christ defines our new life. It is that inseparable connection within Christ as a believer, which unites us and in the love of Christ we found the love for each other and have to show the world that we want to share that love. When we fail to see our true existence in Christ and fail to find our life and, thus, seek it outside of Christ we shall become victim of our own vain pursuit that only leads to frustration and angst in our God-thirsty soul.
We must understand that whatever happens the majority of people will not want to take the divine Creator as their God and lots of people shall prefer to be part of the contemporary world, belonging to it, being in it, and enjoying a worldly philosophy, inventions of men designed to rob you of your inheritance (Col.2:8-10) and as such shall not be so much attracted to the Christadelphian world, which demands a change in their attitude. The friendship with the world is for most people much more important than the friendship with God loving people. Most shall prefer to stay in the Godless world having not to wonder about their own responsibilities.
It is up to the lovers of God to show the others the light of the world and that no one should worry to much about living in this world. When people could come to know that New world better they might think twice and be prepared easier to leave the Old world for what it is, looking forward to a better and perfect world. We understand it is not easy for man to get away with the worldly traditions, so this shall always be some of the obstacles to join or to stay in our community. But people should not be afraid that they cannot take part in worldly events in a Godless world. Christadelphians for sure also can enjoy worldly life, having enough time fore worldly pleasures, and not to become frustrated under the yoke of the world.
+
Preceding articles:
The Big conversation follow up
Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church
++
Additional reading
- A call easy to understand
- Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
- How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
- He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
- The business of this life
- Church sent into the world
- Work with joy and pray with love
- Love for each other attracting others
- How do you keep people from stealing your joy?
- Love is like playing the piano
- Creator and Blogger God 9 A Blog of a Book 3 Blog about Prophecy
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Misunderstandings concerning C.T. Russell
- Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
- Was Russell and Rutherford “Illuminati”?
- Charles Taze Russell and what he started
- Jesse Hemery and the The Goshen Fellowship
- To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers
- Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
- Different approach in organisation of services #1
- Different approach in organisation of services #2
- Different approach in organisation of services #3
- A man from the North wanting to have control in Belgium
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- Dissolution of Bijbelvorsers (Bible scholars), Association for Bible study
- Two new encyclopaedic articles
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
- Christadelphian people
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- What Christadelphians teach
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- 19° Century London Christadelphians
- Breathing and growing with no heir
- Preaching to an unbelieving world
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- What part of the Body am I?
- The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
- United people under Christ
- Fellowship
- The Ecclesia
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
- Our ecclesia or Christadelphian-church
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
- Communion and day of worship
- Christadelphians today
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Harvest in Belgium
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Further readings:
- I Once Was Blind but Now I See
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Cornerstones
- Narcissist Case Studies – How We Know The Pharisees Were Narcissists, Part 2
- Jesus The Cornerstone Of The Church
- Hey You, Cornterstone! (Who???….me?) Yeah, You!
- God Is Not Human
- Where to Draw the Line: Culture vs Religion
- The Cornerstone: The Response of the Church in Violent Times
- Gospel Doctrine 2015 – Lesson 39 – “For the Perfecting of the Saints”
- Finding Joy in the Little Things
- Word Wednesday: Jesus Our Cornerstone
- The Cornerstone of Your Life
- Cornerstone
- Walking With Intentionality
- What is God’s Will For Your Life?
+++
Related articles
- Jesus Christ is not REAL to most Christians (finalcall07.wordpress.com)
- Loving the Sinner (heartfixxer.wordpress.com)
- We stand together proudly (chronicle.augusta.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- Spiritual Growth (faithandfootsteps.wordpress.com)
- “By the Power Invested in Me” (breakawaybylintrollins.wordpress.com)
- Victory (myspiritualbreakfast.com)
- Torah for Today: What does the Torah say about the migrant crisis? (jewishnews.co.uk)
- Slavery (thought.dcwillis.com)
- The differing origins of humankind (iol.co.za)
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The Big conversation Why it matters
Looking at our small community we must remember that it is God Who calls and for what we can offer in our community He takes what we have and makes it go further!
- Church is the place to bring empty lives for God to fill.
- Church is about meeting not just meetings!
In our previous postings we also pointed out that some people may have a wrong opinion about unity and expect all people in a community to say the same and to act the same. But “being one” doesn’t mean “being a clone”. God blesses unity! And we should have and should share our unity in Christ and unity with Christ. All being one in following the teachings of Christ, believing what he says and following up what he asked his followers to do. Not just following a church because it pleases us but because it follows the teachings of the son of God, Jesus Christ, and stays truthful to the Words of God, following God’s Will and willing to share His Gospel. Our union should be in the love for God which should be noticeable for outsiders, being a union of loving people, loving Jehovah God and His son Christ Jesus, Jeshua the Messiah, as lovers of the truth, sharing this love and Good News and spreading unselfish, mutual, unconditional Agape brotherly love and love for all creation under the Covenant of love as beloved disciples and as Bible lovers making a circle of love under the Royal Law of love.
Having different people coming together there should be allowance for every one to have their say. All gathered should have respect for all present and give them the opportunity to share their ideas. Being together it also must be an occasion where public confession, based on a word from God, can take place. This may demand courage to stand up and declare truth, but in a real church of God this should not be a problem because that has to be a place of sharing the love of Christ and working at getting the love of God.
Spending time together to study the Word of God, must do something to those present. Change is inevitable…
except from a vending machine
said Arne Roberts, on October the tenth, at the Big Conversation. For him it is clear what is going to happen to other Bible Students which all came form the same source.
Here’s what will happen to Jehovah’s Witnesses: They will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced Charles Russell: The Christadelphians…
The Christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy “Christian” group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide. They grew exponentially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past. For several decades now they resemble a heavy rusty old steam locomotive that is running out of speed as it lumbers along ill-kept tracks, but still tries to muster the motion needed to take on steep mountain slopes.
The Christadelphians ooze sad irrelevance and faded glory of times well passed. They are an old people’s religion – old people who don’t have the self- and other-awareness to see that they are clinging to a dead dream. The Christadelphians have long since passed their used-by date and the only ones who still ‘practice’ this religion are older individuals who cannot muster the strength to look out their windows at the real world passing them by.
This is the future of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who will not go out with a bang, but who will slowly whimper to an ever slower crawl as the decades pass and the world, in its infinite fascination with religious novelty, will fix its distractable attention on to other more modern belief systems.
For Arne Roberts that is not the end. He asks us to keep in mind that we are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
We as followers of Christ should make sure that the Clarion of the Torah may sound. We hearing the sound loudly should make sure that there might be a stimulant for others in our community 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.
Our very tiny community at a Breaking of Bread gathering at our regular meeting place, the service centre in Heverlee, Leuven.When people just not come to join others because they are part of a small community than that community shall never have any chance of growing. When people keep waiting before willing to join a small community because it does not attract them for it is so small that they shall be noticed, we do have to convince them that they should not hide themselves behind the numbers. It is true that when there is a small church people will be noticed. In a mega church nobody shall notice it when you come in later, slip out earlier, shall fall asleep or shall not be attentional. When we encounter such doubting people who are afraid to join a small church we can ask them
How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
It is up to us that God is in our life and that we want to share it with them. They should not be afraid to feel having a naked identity it such a small group, because as followers of Christ Jesus we have abandoned our sinful ‘I’ and actually have taken an other identity, no identity of our own apart from our union with Christ. Not that we have no unique personality or value or purpose, but that Christ defines our new life. It is that inseparable connection within Christ as a believer, which unites us and in the love of Christ we found the love for each other and have to show the world that we want to share that love. When we fail to see our true existence in Christ and fail to find our life and, thus, seek it outside of Christ we shall become victim of our own vain pursuit that only leads to frustration and angst in our God-thirsty soul.
We must understand that whatever happens the majority of people will not want to take the divine Creator as their God and lots of people shall prefer to be part of the contemporary world, belonging to it, being in it, and enjoying a worldly philosophy, inventions of men designed to rob you of your inheritance (Col.2:8-10) and as such shall not be so much attracted to the Christadelphian world, which demands a change in their attitude. The friendship with the world is for most people much more important than the friendship with God loving people. Most shall prefer to stay in the Godless world having not to wonder about their own responsibilities.
It is up to the lovers of God to show the others the light of the world and that no one should worry to much about living in this world. When people could come to know that New world better they might think twice and be prepared easier to leave the Old world for what it is, looking forward to a better and perfect world. We understand it is not easy for man to get away with the worldly traditions, so this shall always be some of the obstacles to join or to stay in our community. But people should not be afraid that they cannot take part in worldly events in a Godless world. Christadelphians for sure also can enjoy worldly life, having enough time fore worldly pleasures, and not to become frustrated under the yoke of the world.
+
Preceding articles:
The Big conversation follow up
Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church
++
Additional reading
- A call easy to understand
- Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
- How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
- He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
- The business of this life
- Church sent into the world
- Work with joy and pray with love
- Love for each other attracting others
- How do you keep people from stealing your joy?
- Love is like playing the piano
- Creator and Blogger God 9 A Blog of a Book 3 Blog about Prophecy
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Misunderstandings concerning C.T. Russell
- Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
- Was Russell and Rutherford “Illuminati”?
- Charles Taze Russell and what he started
- Jesse Hemery and the The Goshen Fellowship
- To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers
- Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
- Different approach in organisation of services #1
- Different approach in organisation of services #2
- Different approach in organisation of services #3
- A man from the North wanting to have control in Belgium
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- Dissolution of Bijbelvorsers (Bible scholars), Association for Bible study
- Two new encyclopaedic articles
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
- Christadelphian people
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- What Christadelphians teach
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- 19° Century London Christadelphians
- Breathing and growing with no heir
- Preaching to an unbelieving world
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- What part of the Body am I?
- The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
- United people under Christ
- Fellowship
- The Ecclesia
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
- Our ecclesia or Christadelphian-church
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
- Communion and day of worship
- Christadelphians today
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Harvest in Belgium
+++
Further readings:
- I Once Was Blind but Now I See
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Cornerstones
- Narcissist Case Studies – How We Know The Pharisees Were Narcissists, Part 2
- Jesus The Cornerstone Of The Church
- Hey You, Cornterstone! (Who???….me?) Yeah, You!
- God Is Not Human
- Where to Draw the Line: Culture vs Religion
- The Cornerstone: The Response of the Church in Violent Times
- Gospel Doctrine 2015 – Lesson 39 – “For the Perfecting of the Saints”
- Finding Joy in the Little Things
- Word Wednesday: Jesus Our Cornerstone
- The Cornerstone of Your Life
- Cornerstone
- Walking With Intentionality
- What is God’s Will For Your Life?
+++
Related articles
- Jesus Christ is not REAL to most Christians (finalcall07.wordpress.com)
- Loving the Sinner (heartfixxer.wordpress.com)
- We stand together proudly (chronicle.augusta.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- Spiritual Growth (faithandfootsteps.wordpress.com)
- “By the Power Invested in Me” (breakawaybylintrollins.wordpress.com)
- Victory (myspiritualbreakfast.com)
- Torah for Today: What does the Torah say about the migrant crisis? (jewishnews.co.uk)
- Slavery (thought.dcwillis.com)
- The differing origins of humankind (iol.co.za)
Rate this:
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The Big conversation Why it matters
Looking at our small community we must remember that it is God Who calls and for what we can offer in our community He takes what we have and makes it go further!
- Church is the place to bring empty lives for God to fill.
- Church is about meeting not just meetings!
In our previous postings we also pointed out that some people may have a wrong opinion about unity and expect all people in a community to say the same and to act the same. But “being one” doesn’t mean “being a clone”. God blesses unity! And we should have and should share our unity in Christ and unity with Christ. All being one in following the teachings of Christ, believing what he says and following up what he asked his followers to do. Not just following a church because it pleases us but because it follows the teachings of the son of God, Jesus Christ, and stays truthful to the Words of God, following God’s Will and willing to share His Gospel. Our union should be in the love for God which should be noticeable for outsiders, being a union of loving people, loving Jehovah God and His son Christ Jesus, Jeshua the Messiah, as lovers of the truth, sharing this love and Good News and spreading unselfish, mutual, unconditional Agape brotherly love and love for all creation under the Covenant of love as beloved disciples and as Bible lovers making a circle of love under the Royal Law of love.
Having different people coming together there should be allowance for every one to have their say. All gathered should have respect for all present and give them the opportunity to share their ideas. Being together it also must be an occasion where public confession, based on a word from God, can take place. This may demand courage to stand up and declare truth, but in a real church of God this should not be a problem because that has to be a place of sharing the love of Christ and working at getting the love of God.
Spending time together to study the Word of God, must do something to those present. Change is inevitable…
except from a vending machine
said Arne Roberts, on October the tenth, at the Big Conversation. For him it is clear what is going to happen to other Bible Students which all came form the same source.
Here’s what will happen to Jehovah’s Witnesses: They will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced Charles Russell: The Christadelphians…
The Christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy “Christian” group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide. They grew exponentially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past. For several decades now they resemble a heavy rusty old steam locomotive that is running out of speed as it lumbers along ill-kept tracks, but still tries to muster the motion needed to take on steep mountain slopes.
The Christadelphians ooze sad irrelevance and faded glory of times well passed. They are an old people’s religion – old people who don’t have the self- and other-awareness to see that they are clinging to a dead dream. The Christadelphians have long since passed their used-by date and the only ones who still ‘practice’ this religion are older individuals who cannot muster the strength to look out their windows at the real world passing them by.
This is the future of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who will not go out with a bang, but who will slowly whimper to an ever slower crawl as the decades pass and the world, in its infinite fascination with religious novelty, will fix its distractable attention on to other more modern belief systems.
For Arne Roberts that is not the end. He asks us to keep in mind that we are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
We as followers of Christ should make sure that the Clarion of the Torah may sound. We hearing the sound loudly should make sure that there might be a stimulant for others in our community 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.
Our very tiny community at a Breaking of Bread gathering at our regular meeting place, the service centre in Heverlee, Leuven.When people just not come to join others because they are part of a small community than that community shall never have any chance of growing. When people keep waiting before willing to join a small community because it does not attract them for it is so small that they shall be noticed, we do have to convince them that they should not hide themselves behind the numbers. It is true that when there is a small church people will be noticed. In a mega church nobody shall notice it when you come in later, slip out earlier, shall fall asleep or shall not be attentional. When we encounter such doubting people who are afraid to join a small church we can ask them
How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
It is up to us that God is in our life and that we want to share it with them. They should not be afraid to feel having a naked identity it such a small group, because as followers of Christ Jesus we have abandoned our sinful ‘I’ and actually have taken an other identity, no identity of our own apart from our union with Christ. Not that we have no unique personality or value or purpose, but that Christ defines our new life. It is that inseparable connection within Christ as a believer, which unites us and in the love of Christ we found the love for each other and have to show the world that we want to share that love. When we fail to see our true existence in Christ and fail to find our life and, thus, seek it outside of Christ we shall become victim of our own vain pursuit that only leads to frustration and angst in our God-thirsty soul.
We must understand that whatever happens the majority of people will not want to take the divine Creator as their God and lots of people shall prefer to be part of the contemporary world, belonging to it, being in it, and enjoying a worldly philosophy, inventions of men designed to rob you of your inheritance (Col.2:8-10) and as such shall not be so much attracted to the Christadelphian world, which demands a change in their attitude. The friendship with the world is for most people much more important than the friendship with God loving people. Most shall prefer to stay in the Godless world having not to wonder about their own responsibilities.
It is up to the lovers of God to show the others the light of the world and that no one should worry to much about living in this world. When people could come to know that New world better they might think twice and be prepared easier to leave the Old world for what it is, looking forward to a better and perfect world. We understand it is not easy for man to get away with the worldly traditions, so this shall always be some of the obstacles to join or to stay in our community. But people should not be afraid that they cannot take part in worldly events in a Godless world. Christadelphians for sure also can enjoy worldly life, having enough time fore worldly pleasures, and not to become frustrated under the yoke of the world.
+
Preceding articles:
The Big conversation follow up
Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church
++
Additional reading
- A call easy to understand
- Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
- How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
- He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
- The business of this life
- Church sent into the world
- Work with joy and pray with love
- Love for each other attracting others
- How do you keep people from stealing your joy?
- Love is like playing the piano
- Creator and Blogger God 9 A Blog of a Book 3 Blog about Prophecy
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Misunderstandings concerning C.T. Russell
- Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
- Was Russell and Rutherford “Illuminati”?
- Charles Taze Russell and what he started
- Jesse Hemery and the The Goshen Fellowship
- To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers
- Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
- Different approach in organisation of services #1
- Different approach in organisation of services #2
- Different approach in organisation of services #3
- A man from the North wanting to have control in Belgium
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- Dissolution of Bijbelvorsers (Bible scholars), Association for Bible study
- Two new encyclopaedic articles
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
- Christadelphian people
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- What Christadelphians teach
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- 19° Century London Christadelphians
- Breathing and growing with no heir
- Preaching to an unbelieving world
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- What part of the Body am I?
- The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
- United people under Christ
- Fellowship
- The Ecclesia
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
- Our ecclesia or Christadelphian-church
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
- Communion and day of worship
- Christadelphians today
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Harvest in Belgium
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Further readings:
- I Once Was Blind but Now I See
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Cornerstones
- Narcissist Case Studies – How We Know The Pharisees Were Narcissists, Part 2
- Jesus The Cornerstone Of The Church
- Hey You, Cornterstone! (Who???….me?) Yeah, You!
- God Is Not Human
- Where to Draw the Line: Culture vs Religion
- The Cornerstone: The Response of the Church in Violent Times
- Gospel Doctrine 2015 – Lesson 39 – “For the Perfecting of the Saints”
- Finding Joy in the Little Things
- Word Wednesday: Jesus Our Cornerstone
- The Cornerstone of Your Life
- Cornerstone
- Walking With Intentionality
- What is God’s Will For Your Life?
+++
Related articles
- Jesus Christ is not REAL to most Christians (finalcall07.wordpress.com)
- Loving the Sinner (heartfixxer.wordpress.com)
- We stand together proudly (chronicle.augusta.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- Spiritual Growth (faithandfootsteps.wordpress.com)
- “By the Power Invested in Me” (breakawaybylintrollins.wordpress.com)
- Victory (myspiritualbreakfast.com)
- Torah for Today: What does the Torah say about the migrant crisis? (jewishnews.co.uk)
- Slavery (thought.dcwillis.com)
- The differing origins of humankind (iol.co.za)
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The Big conversation Why it matters
Looking at our small community we must remember that it is God Who calls and for what we can offer in our community He takes what we have and makes it go further!
- Church is the place to bring empty lives for God to fill.
- Church is about meeting not just meetings!
In our previous postings we also pointed out that some people may have a wrong opinion about unity and expect all people in a community to say the same and to act the same. But “being one” doesn’t mean “being a clone”. God blesses unity! And we should have and should share our unity in Christ and unity with Christ. All being one in following the teachings of Christ, believing what he says and following up what he asked his followers to do. Not just following a church because it pleases us but because it follows the teachings of the son of God, Jesus Christ, and stays truthful to the Words of God, following God’s Will and willing to share His Gospel. Our union should be in the love for God which should be noticeable for outsiders, being a union of loving people, loving Jehovah God and His son Christ Jesus, Jeshua the Messiah, as lovers of the truth, sharing this love and Good News and spreading unselfish, mutual, unconditional Agape brotherly love and love for all creation under the Covenant of love as beloved disciples and as Bible lovers making a circle of love under the Royal Law of love.
Having different people coming together there should be allowance for every one to have their say. All gathered should have respect for all present and give them the opportunity to share their ideas. Being together it also must be an occasion where public confession, based on a word from God, can take place. This may demand courage to stand up and declare truth, but in a real church of God this should not be a problem because that has to be a place of sharing the love of Christ and working at getting the love of God.
Spending time together to study the Word of God, must do something to those present. Change is inevitable…
except from a vending machine
said Arne Roberts, on October the tenth, at the Big Conversation. For him it is clear what is going to happen to other Bible Students which all came form the same source.
Here’s what will happen to Jehovah’s Witnesses: They will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced Charles Russell: The Christadelphians…
The Christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy “Christian” group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide. They grew exponentially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past. For several decades now they resemble a heavy rusty old steam locomotive that is running out of speed as it lumbers along ill-kept tracks, but still tries to muster the motion needed to take on steep mountain slopes.
The Christadelphians ooze sad irrelevance and faded glory of times well passed. They are an old people’s religion – old people who don’t have the self- and other-awareness to see that they are clinging to a dead dream. The Christadelphians have long since passed their used-by date and the only ones who still ‘practice’ this religion are older individuals who cannot muster the strength to look out their windows at the real world passing them by.
This is the future of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who will not go out with a bang, but who will slowly whimper to an ever slower crawl as the decades pass and the world, in its infinite fascination with religious novelty, will fix its distractable attention on to other more modern belief systems.
For Arne Roberts that is not the end. He asks us to keep in mind that we are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
We as followers of Christ should make sure that the Clarion of the Torah may sound. We hearing the sound loudly should make sure that there might be a stimulant for others in our community 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.
Our very tiny community at a Breaking of Bread gathering at our regular meeting place, the service centre in Heverlee, Leuven.When people just not come to join others because they are part of a small community than that community shall never have any chance of growing. When people keep waiting before willing to join a small community because it does not attract them for it is so small that they shall be noticed, we do have to convince them that they should not hide themselves behind the numbers. It is true that when there is a small church people will be noticed. In a mega church nobody shall notice it when you come in later, slip out earlier, shall fall asleep or shall not be attentional. When we encounter such doubting people who are afraid to join a small church we can ask them
How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
It is up to us that God is in our life and that we want to share it with them. They should not be afraid to feel having a naked identity it such a small group, because as followers of Christ Jesus we have abandoned our sinful ‘I’ and actually have taken an other identity, no identity of our own apart from our union with Christ. Not that we have no unique personality or value or purpose, but that Christ defines our new life. It is that inseparable connection within Christ as a believer, which unites us and in the love of Christ we found the love for each other and have to show the world that we want to share that love. When we fail to see our true existence in Christ and fail to find our life and, thus, seek it outside of Christ we shall become victim of our own vain pursuit that only leads to frustration and angst in our God-thirsty soul.
We must understand that whatever happens the majority of people will not want to take the divine Creator as their God and lots of people shall prefer to be part of the contemporary world, belonging to it, being in it, and enjoying a worldly philosophy, inventions of men designed to rob you of your inheritance (Col.2:8-10) and as such shall not be so much attracted to the Christadelphian world, which demands a change in their attitude. The friendship with the world is for most people much more important than the friendship with God loving people. Most shall prefer to stay in the Godless world having not to wonder about their own responsibilities.
It is up to the lovers of God to show the others the light of the world and that no one should worry to much about living in this world. When people could come to know that New world better they might think twice and be prepared easier to leave the Old world for what it is, looking forward to a better and perfect world. We understand it is not easy for man to get away with the worldly traditions, so this shall always be some of the obstacles to join or to stay in our community. But people should not be afraid that they cannot take part in worldly events in a Godless world. Christadelphians for sure also can enjoy worldly life, having enough time fore worldly pleasures, and not to become frustrated under the yoke of the world.
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Preceding articles:
The Big conversation follow up
Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church
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Additional reading
- A call easy to understand
- Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
- How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
- He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
- The business of this life
- Church sent into the world
- Work with joy and pray with love
- Love for each other attracting others
- How do you keep people from stealing your joy?
- Love is like playing the piano
- Creator and Blogger God 9 A Blog of a Book 3 Blog about Prophecy
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Misunderstandings concerning C.T. Russell
- Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
- Was Russell and Rutherford “Illuminati”?
- Charles Taze Russell and what he started
- Jesse Hemery and the The Goshen Fellowship
- To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers
- Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
- Different approach in organisation of services #1
- Different approach in organisation of services #2
- Different approach in organisation of services #3
- A man from the North wanting to have control in Belgium
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- Dissolution of Bijbelvorsers (Bible scholars), Association for Bible study
- Two new encyclopaedic articles
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
- Christadelphian people
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- What Christadelphians teach
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Priority to form a loving brotherhood
- 19° Century London Christadelphians
- Breathing and growing with no heir
- Preaching to an unbelieving world
- Commitment to Christian unity
- Parts of the body of Christ
- What part of the Body am I?
- The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
- United people under Christ
- Fellowship
- The Ecclesia
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
- Our ecclesia or Christadelphian-church
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
- Communion and day of worship
- Christadelphians today
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Harvest in Belgium
+++
Further readings:
- I Once Was Blind but Now I See
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Day 28: Where Are They?
- Cornerstones
- Narcissist Case Studies – How We Know The Pharisees Were Narcissists, Part 2
- Jesus The Cornerstone Of The Church
- Hey You, Cornterstone! (Who???….me?) Yeah, You!
- God Is Not Human
- Where to Draw the Line: Culture vs Religion
- The Cornerstone: The Response of the Church in Violent Times
- Gospel Doctrine 2015 – Lesson 39 – “For the Perfecting of the Saints”
- Finding Joy in the Little Things
- Word Wednesday: Jesus Our Cornerstone
- The Cornerstone of Your Life
- Cornerstone
- Walking With Intentionality
- What is God’s Will For Your Life?
+++
Related articles
- Jesus Christ is not REAL to most Christians (finalcall07.wordpress.com)
- Loving the Sinner (heartfixxer.wordpress.com)
- We stand together proudly (chronicle.augusta.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- Spiritual Growth (faithandfootsteps.wordpress.com)
- “By the Power Invested in Me” (breakawaybylintrollins.wordpress.com)
- Victory (myspiritualbreakfast.com)
- Torah for Today: What does the Torah say about the migrant crisis? (jewishnews.co.uk)
- Slavery (thought.dcwillis.com)
- The differing origins of humankind (iol.co.za)
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Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
Tuesday-night at the meeting of the Ecclesia Brussel–Leuven we read Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 1+3, looking at the difficulties we have encountered the last few months and how we had to cope with it but also how we should continue our way.
Sometimes we do get to recognise we could not re-conciliate but have to turn over the page and leave those who did not want to be amicably connected with us on their own. Sometimes a community has the priority to protect its own flock and has to take measures which do not seem so pleasant for all people involved. When certain people prefer to stand on their own and are not willing to co-operate the community than has to decide to let them go their own way, but when they themselves did everything to blacken that community, they should not have to keep contact any more. As such we decided to leave the man from the North and his organisation far what they are, and shall concentrate ourselves on bringing people to Christ ourselves, without their help.
Jesus Christ is the man who opened the way to his Father. He is the One Mediator between God and man and is the cornerstone of the Church of God.
We do trust the Most High, Elohim Hashem Jehovah, Who shall call people and Who shall guide us and give us that what we need according to His time.
In Him we trust and give all our hope to build up His Church in Belgium and other parts in the world.
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Related articles
- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
Alexander Michalak writes: My preliminary examination of several Second Temple texts, 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, Joseph and Aseneth, Testament of Job, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs indicates that there is already at this time a connection between demons and the cult of foreign gods, although they are not always explicitly identified with one another. Sometimes the demonic spirits are said only to lead people astray, that is, to lead people toward Gentile worship and toward idolatry, whereas in other cases it is the demonic spirits who are the objects of worship, or the pagan gods themselves. - The House of Worship (causeitfeelsright.wordpress.com)
The Greek word that should have been translated to church was only used twice in the New Testament. It means “the Lord’s” and was used for the Lord’s day and the Lord’s supper. But this instance is ecclesia. It means “to call forth from out of”. Matthew says if you and the other person can’t work out your problems go get help. Go find a few more people to help because maybe they’ll understand a different perspective. If that doesn’t work go find the ones who have been called out of darkness (1 Peter). When you are in darkness you can’t see clearly and when you are “in the dark” you are ignorant which simply means you don’t know. So someone who has been called out can see clearly, or they are knowledgeable or “in the know” which is having “inside” information. - Mary, Martha & Lazarus – the family in Bethany (hadvarim.wordpress.com)
The gospel narrative then is largely concerned with Christ exposing the apostate Jewish leaders, and building up his apostles as “other husbandmen” to replace them. The parables recorded of the Kingdom of heaven throughout Matthew describe the kingdom of Israel in existence (Mat 11:12), under the governance of the prince of this world – the apostate Jewish leaders (John 12:31, 16:11, Eph 2:2, Luke 10:18, Mat 24:27), and then later to be replaced with the new heavens founded upon Christ as the Abrahamic seed stars are raised to the political heavens (Gen 15:5, Dan 12:2-3, Psa 19:4, 1 Cor 15:40-49, Apoc 4:1).
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A people for his Name
Christ is described as the second Adam as compared to the first Adam (1 Cor 15:45-47). Both of them the “son of God” (Luke 3:38), and both typically created the same way. The body of Christ is the Ecclesia εκκλησια (Eph 5:23, 30, Col 1:18,24), and it is being formed from the Abrahamic dust, the seed of Abraham according to the promises of old; compare Gen 2:7 with Gen 13:16, 28:14.
+The mortal children of Israel are described as Elohim, mighty ones, or as we have in the AV “gods”. Elohim describes the the mental state of the person, not their physical nature. Ambassadors of the father, regardless of whether they are mortal people or immortal angels. If they are empowered by the will of the spirit, they are indeed mighty ones.When mortal Elohim, mighty ones, do not keep the commandments of Yahweh then they are not immune – by any means – to the consequences of their actions. They will “die like men”.
Therefore we ought to take earnest heed to the things which we have heard. We have all the scriptures… even the testimony of the Son, which brings with it great responsibility (Heb 2:1-3). We comfort in that if we turn from wickedness we will be forgiven. Yet vigilant in the warning that turning to wickedness means rejection (Ezk 33:11-19).
- Ecclesia Plantanda (vicaranne.wordpress.com)
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787) … Englishman William Carey … Both men understood that sharing good news need not and must not wait for people to learn the evangelist’s tongue. - church oh church1 (ozyikhiedwardblog.wordpress.com)
why substitute “ecclesia” for “kyriakon”?to support the regular congregating of early Christians,who didn’t understand what Paul and Silas were doing!
What did the New Covenant writers mean when they used the word “Ecclesia” to describe a Christian body of people?? We can safely denote that they intended to convey the original Greek meaning of the word:”A body of Christian called out of Roman and Judean systems of Government,to live under a seperate civil mentality,”a politically autonomous body of Christians,under no other King but Yeshua,under no other civil laws,than that of Yeshua.But some misguided folks misunderstood the missions of Paul, that was why these Christians ran into trouble with kings and rulers,were arrested,crucified,and martyred. They dropped Caesar as their King,and took up Christ. The writers of the New covenant didn’t substitute “kyriakon” with “Ecclesia” to mean entertainment every Sundays,and Tuesdays,and so on! - Apostasy in the Highest Places (mysteryoftheiniquity.com)
The church, the Ecclesia, is a body of people who are redeemed called out to represent GOD and HIS Authority which means they are called to carry our HIS Laws. We are granted the responsibility of not only this but we are accountable for these actions.
The fact that the church is failing man is an undeniable truth but it’s also devastating to the people. How do I mean they are failing the people? - Priority to form a loving brotherhood (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
There might be people who do not like that others share the love of Christ with each other and do not mind being under Christ instead of being under one or the other organisation. - Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
Coming together in each-others houses, forming housechurches as a church of disciples they also were an assembly of learners. We too so many years later should be like them a church of Christian disciples and an assembly of persons who believe the things of the Kingdom of God, and of the Name of the lord Jesus, and, thus believing, have been immersed into Christ and patiently continue in the faith and well doing of their vocation, reading, marking, learning and inwardly digesting all things revealed in the scriptures of truth.
In the readings of today we look at the brothers and sisters in Corinth some 2000 years ago.
In Belgium the community has been troubled by persons perhaps wanting to claim to have the right to make foundations and to direct the groups of people wanting to come together under the name of Christ.
Paul the Apostle, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We remember how the apostle Paul makes the argument that he has borne witness to the people of Corinth, he has shared the gospel, he has brought them to Christ and showed them the way but that he has to be sad because he only could see division between those who should be united as brethren and sisters in Christ.
The apostle Paul in his 5th letter to the Romans and his first three letters to the Corinths, also talks…
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- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
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Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
Tuesday-night at the meeting of the Ecclesia Brussel–Leuven we read Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 1+3, looking at the difficulties we have encountered the last few months and how we had to cope with it but also how we should continue our way.
Sometimes we do get to recognise we could not re-conciliate but have to turn over the page and leave those who did not want to be amicably connected with us on their own. Sometimes a community has the priority to protect its own flock and has to take measures which do not seem so pleasant for all people involved. When certain people prefer to stand on their own and are not willing to co-operate the community than has to decide to let them go their own way, but when they themselves did everything to blacken that community, they should not have to keep contact any more. As such we decided to leave the man from the North and his organisation far what they are, and shall concentrate ourselves on bringing people to Christ ourselves, without their help.
Jesus Christ is the man who opened the way to his Father. He is the One Mediator between God and man and is the cornerstone of the Church of God.
We do trust the Most High, Elohim Hashem Jehovah, Who shall call people and Who shall guide us and give us that what we need according to His time.
In Him we trust and give all our hope to build up His Church in Belgium and other parts in the world.
+++
Related articles
- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
Alexander Michalak writes: My preliminary examination of several Second Temple texts, 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, Joseph and Aseneth, Testament of Job, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs indicates that there is already at this time a connection between demons and the cult of foreign gods, although they are not always explicitly identified with one another. Sometimes the demonic spirits are said only to lead people astray, that is, to lead people toward Gentile worship and toward idolatry, whereas in other cases it is the demonic spirits who are the objects of worship, or the pagan gods themselves. - The House of Worship (causeitfeelsright.wordpress.com)
The Greek word that should have been translated to church was only used twice in the New Testament. It means “the Lord’s” and was used for the Lord’s day and the Lord’s supper. But this instance is ecclesia. It means “to call forth from out of”. Matthew says if you and the other person can’t work out your problems go get help. Go find a few more people to help because maybe they’ll understand a different perspective. If that doesn’t work go find the ones who have been called out of darkness (1 Peter). When you are in darkness you can’t see clearly and when you are “in the dark” you are ignorant which simply means you don’t know. So someone who has been called out can see clearly, or they are knowledgeable or “in the know” which is having “inside” information. - Mary, Martha & Lazarus – the family in Bethany (hadvarim.wordpress.com)
The gospel narrative then is largely concerned with Christ exposing the apostate Jewish leaders, and building up his apostles as “other husbandmen” to replace them. The parables recorded of the Kingdom of heaven throughout Matthew describe the kingdom of Israel in existence (Mat 11:12), under the governance of the prince of this world – the apostate Jewish leaders (John 12:31, 16:11, Eph 2:2, Luke 10:18, Mat 24:27), and then later to be replaced with the new heavens founded upon Christ as the Abrahamic seed stars are raised to the political heavens (Gen 15:5, Dan 12:2-3, Psa 19:4, 1 Cor 15:40-49, Apoc 4:1).
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A people for his Name
Christ is described as the second Adam as compared to the first Adam (1 Cor 15:45-47). Both of them the “son of God” (Luke 3:38), and both typically created the same way. The body of Christ is the Ecclesia εκκλησια (Eph 5:23, 30, Col 1:18,24), and it is being formed from the Abrahamic dust, the seed of Abraham according to the promises of old; compare Gen 2:7 with Gen 13:16, 28:14.
+The mortal children of Israel are described as Elohim, mighty ones, or as we have in the AV “gods”. Elohim describes the the mental state of the person, not their physical nature. Ambassadors of the father, regardless of whether they are mortal people or immortal angels. If they are empowered by the will of the spirit, they are indeed mighty ones.When mortal Elohim, mighty ones, do not keep the commandments of Yahweh then they are not immune – by any means – to the consequences of their actions. They will “die like men”.
Therefore we ought to take earnest heed to the things which we have heard. We have all the scriptures… even the testimony of the Son, which brings with it great responsibility (Heb 2:1-3). We comfort in that if we turn from wickedness we will be forgiven. Yet vigilant in the warning that turning to wickedness means rejection (Ezk 33:11-19).
- Ecclesia Plantanda (vicaranne.wordpress.com)
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787) … Englishman William Carey … Both men understood that sharing good news need not and must not wait for people to learn the evangelist’s tongue. - church oh church1 (ozyikhiedwardblog.wordpress.com)
why substitute “ecclesia” for “kyriakon”?to support the regular congregating of early Christians,who didn’t understand what Paul and Silas were doing!
What did the New Covenant writers mean when they used the word “Ecclesia” to describe a Christian body of people?? We can safely denote that they intended to convey the original Greek meaning of the word:”A body of Christian called out of Roman and Judean systems of Government,to live under a seperate civil mentality,”a politically autonomous body of Christians,under no other King but Yeshua,under no other civil laws,than that of Yeshua.But some misguided folks misunderstood the missions of Paul, that was why these Christians ran into trouble with kings and rulers,were arrested,crucified,and martyred. They dropped Caesar as their King,and took up Christ. The writers of the New covenant didn’t substitute “kyriakon” with “Ecclesia” to mean entertainment every Sundays,and Tuesdays,and so on! - Apostasy in the Highest Places (mysteryoftheiniquity.com)
The church, the Ecclesia, is a body of people who are redeemed called out to represent GOD and HIS Authority which means they are called to carry our HIS Laws. We are granted the responsibility of not only this but we are accountable for these actions.
The fact that the church is failing man is an undeniable truth but it’s also devastating to the people. How do I mean they are failing the people? - Priority to form a loving brotherhood (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
There might be people who do not like that others share the love of Christ with each other and do not mind being under Christ instead of being under one or the other organisation. - Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
Coming together in each-others houses, forming housechurches as a church of disciples they also were an assembly of learners. We too so many years later should be like them a church of Christian disciples and an assembly of persons who believe the things of the Kingdom of God, and of the Name of the lord Jesus, and, thus believing, have been immersed into Christ and patiently continue in the faith and well doing of their vocation, reading, marking, learning and inwardly digesting all things revealed in the scriptures of truth.
In the readings of today we look at the brothers and sisters in Corinth some 2000 years ago.
In Belgium the community has been troubled by persons perhaps wanting to claim to have the right to make foundations and to direct the groups of people wanting to come together under the name of Christ.
Paul the Apostle, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We remember how the apostle Paul makes the argument that he has borne witness to the people of Corinth, he has shared the gospel, he has brought them to Christ and showed them the way but that he has to be sad because he only could see division between those who should be united as brethren and sisters in Christ.
The apostle Paul in his 5th letter to the Romans and his first three letters to the Corinths, also talks…
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- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
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Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
Tuesday-night at the meeting of the Ecclesia Brussel–Leuven we read Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 1+3, looking at the difficulties we have encountered the last few months and how we had to cope with it but also how we should continue our way.
Sometimes we do get to recognise we could not re-conciliate but have to turn over the page and leave those who did not want to be amicably connected with us on their own. Sometimes a community has the priority to protect its own flock and has to take measures which do not seem so pleasant for all people involved. When certain people prefer to stand on their own and are not willing to co-operate the community than has to decide to let them go their own way, but when they themselves did everything to blacken that community, they should not have to keep contact any more. As such we decided to leave the man from the North and his organisation far what they are, and shall concentrate ourselves on bringing people to Christ ourselves, without their help.
Jesus Christ is the man who opened the way to his Father. He is the One Mediator between God and man and is the cornerstone of the Church of God.
We do trust the Most High, Elohim Hashem Jehovah, Who shall call people and Who shall guide us and give us that what we need according to His time.
In Him we trust and give all our hope to build up His Church in Belgium and other parts in the world.
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Related articles
- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
Alexander Michalak writes: My preliminary examination of several Second Temple texts, 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, Joseph and Aseneth, Testament of Job, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs indicates that there is already at this time a connection between demons and the cult of foreign gods, although they are not always explicitly identified with one another. Sometimes the demonic spirits are said only to lead people astray, that is, to lead people toward Gentile worship and toward idolatry, whereas in other cases it is the demonic spirits who are the objects of worship, or the pagan gods themselves. - The House of Worship (causeitfeelsright.wordpress.com)
The Greek word that should have been translated to church was only used twice in the New Testament. It means “the Lord’s” and was used for the Lord’s day and the Lord’s supper. But this instance is ecclesia. It means “to call forth from out of”. Matthew says if you and the other person can’t work out your problems go get help. Go find a few more people to help because maybe they’ll understand a different perspective. If that doesn’t work go find the ones who have been called out of darkness (1 Peter). When you are in darkness you can’t see clearly and when you are “in the dark” you are ignorant which simply means you don’t know. So someone who has been called out can see clearly, or they are knowledgeable or “in the know” which is having “inside” information. - Mary, Martha & Lazarus – the family in Bethany (hadvarim.wordpress.com)
The gospel narrative then is largely concerned with Christ exposing the apostate Jewish leaders, and building up his apostles as “other husbandmen” to replace them. The parables recorded of the Kingdom of heaven throughout Matthew describe the kingdom of Israel in existence (Mat 11:12), under the governance of the prince of this world – the apostate Jewish leaders (John 12:31, 16:11, Eph 2:2, Luke 10:18, Mat 24:27), and then later to be replaced with the new heavens founded upon Christ as the Abrahamic seed stars are raised to the political heavens (Gen 15:5, Dan 12:2-3, Psa 19:4, 1 Cor 15:40-49, Apoc 4:1).
+
A people for his Name
Christ is described as the second Adam as compared to the first Adam (1 Cor 15:45-47). Both of them the “son of God” (Luke 3:38), and both typically created the same way. The body of Christ is the Ecclesia εκκλησια (Eph 5:23, 30, Col 1:18,24), and it is being formed from the Abrahamic dust, the seed of Abraham according to the promises of old; compare Gen 2:7 with Gen 13:16, 28:14.
+The mortal children of Israel are described as Elohim, mighty ones, or as we have in the AV “gods”. Elohim describes the the mental state of the person, not their physical nature. Ambassadors of the father, regardless of whether they are mortal people or immortal angels. If they are empowered by the will of the spirit, they are indeed mighty ones.When mortal Elohim, mighty ones, do not keep the commandments of Yahweh then they are not immune – by any means – to the consequences of their actions. They will “die like men”.
Therefore we ought to take earnest heed to the things which we have heard. We have all the scriptures… even the testimony of the Son, which brings with it great responsibility (Heb 2:1-3). We comfort in that if we turn from wickedness we will be forgiven. Yet vigilant in the warning that turning to wickedness means rejection (Ezk 33:11-19).
- Ecclesia Plantanda (vicaranne.wordpress.com)
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787) … Englishman William Carey … Both men understood that sharing good news need not and must not wait for people to learn the evangelist’s tongue. - church oh church1 (ozyikhiedwardblog.wordpress.com)
why substitute “ecclesia” for “kyriakon”?to support the regular congregating of early Christians,who didn’t understand what Paul and Silas were doing!
What did the New Covenant writers mean when they used the word “Ecclesia” to describe a Christian body of people?? We can safely denote that they intended to convey the original Greek meaning of the word:”A body of Christian called out of Roman and Judean systems of Government,to live under a seperate civil mentality,”a politically autonomous body of Christians,under no other King but Yeshua,under no other civil laws,than that of Yeshua.But some misguided folks misunderstood the missions of Paul, that was why these Christians ran into trouble with kings and rulers,were arrested,crucified,and martyred. They dropped Caesar as their King,and took up Christ. The writers of the New covenant didn’t substitute “kyriakon” with “Ecclesia” to mean entertainment every Sundays,and Tuesdays,and so on! - Apostasy in the Highest Places (mysteryoftheiniquity.com)
The church, the Ecclesia, is a body of people who are redeemed called out to represent GOD and HIS Authority which means they are called to carry our HIS Laws. We are granted the responsibility of not only this but we are accountable for these actions.
The fact that the church is failing man is an undeniable truth but it’s also devastating to the people. How do I mean they are failing the people? - Priority to form a loving brotherhood (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
There might be people who do not like that others share the love of Christ with each other and do not mind being under Christ instead of being under one or the other organisation. - Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
Coming together in each-others houses, forming housechurches as a church of disciples they also were an assembly of learners. We too so many years later should be like them a church of Christian disciples and an assembly of persons who believe the things of the Kingdom of God, and of the Name of the lord Jesus, and, thus believing, have been immersed into Christ and patiently continue in the faith and well doing of their vocation, reading, marking, learning and inwardly digesting all things revealed in the scriptures of truth.
In the readings of today we look at the brothers and sisters in Corinth some 2000 years ago.
In Belgium the community has been troubled by persons perhaps wanting to claim to have the right to make foundations and to direct the groups of people wanting to come together under the name of Christ.
Paul the Apostle, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We remember how the apostle Paul makes the argument that he has borne witness to the people of Corinth, he has shared the gospel, he has brought them to Christ and showed them the way but that he has to be sad because he only could see division between those who should be united as brethren and sisters in Christ.
The apostle Paul in his 5th letter to the Romans and his first three letters to the Corinths, also talks…
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- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
-
Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
Tuesday-night at the meeting of the Ecclesia Brussel–Leuven we read Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 1+3, looking at the difficulties we have encountered the last few months and how we had to cope with it but also how we should continue our way.
Sometimes we do get to recognise we could not re-conciliate but have to turn over the page and leave those who did not want to be amicably connected with us on their own. Sometimes a community has the priority to protect its own flock and has to take measures which do not seem so pleasant for all people involved. When certain people prefer to stand on their own and are not willing to co-operate the community than has to decide to let them go their own way, but when they themselves did everything to blacken that community, they should not have to keep contact any more. As such we decided to leave the man from the North and his organisation far what they are, and shall concentrate ourselves on bringing people to Christ ourselves, without their help.
Jesus Christ is the man who opened the way to his Father. He is the One Mediator between God and man and is the cornerstone of the Church of God.
We do trust the Most High, Elohim Hashem Jehovah, Who shall call people and Who shall guide us and give us that what we need according to His time.
In Him we trust and give all our hope to build up His Church in Belgium and other parts in the world.
+++
Related articles
- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
Alexander Michalak writes: My preliminary examination of several Second Temple texts, 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, Joseph and Aseneth, Testament of Job, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs indicates that there is already at this time a connection between demons and the cult of foreign gods, although they are not always explicitly identified with one another. Sometimes the demonic spirits are said only to lead people astray, that is, to lead people toward Gentile worship and toward idolatry, whereas in other cases it is the demonic spirits who are the objects of worship, or the pagan gods themselves. - The House of Worship (causeitfeelsright.wordpress.com)
The Greek word that should have been translated to church was only used twice in the New Testament. It means “the Lord’s” and was used for the Lord’s day and the Lord’s supper. But this instance is ecclesia. It means “to call forth from out of”. Matthew says if you and the other person can’t work out your problems go get help. Go find a few more people to help because maybe they’ll understand a different perspective. If that doesn’t work go find the ones who have been called out of darkness (1 Peter). When you are in darkness you can’t see clearly and when you are “in the dark” you are ignorant which simply means you don’t know. So someone who has been called out can see clearly, or they are knowledgeable or “in the know” which is having “inside” information. - Mary, Martha & Lazarus – the family in Bethany (hadvarim.wordpress.com)
The gospel narrative then is largely concerned with Christ exposing the apostate Jewish leaders, and building up his apostles as “other husbandmen” to replace them. The parables recorded of the Kingdom of heaven throughout Matthew describe the kingdom of Israel in existence (Mat 11:12), under the governance of the prince of this world – the apostate Jewish leaders (John 12:31, 16:11, Eph 2:2, Luke 10:18, Mat 24:27), and then later to be replaced with the new heavens founded upon Christ as the Abrahamic seed stars are raised to the political heavens (Gen 15:5, Dan 12:2-3, Psa 19:4, 1 Cor 15:40-49, Apoc 4:1).
+
A people for his Name
Christ is described as the second Adam as compared to the first Adam (1 Cor 15:45-47). Both of them the “son of God” (Luke 3:38), and both typically created the same way. The body of Christ is the Ecclesia εκκλησια (Eph 5:23, 30, Col 1:18,24), and it is being formed from the Abrahamic dust, the seed of Abraham according to the promises of old; compare Gen 2:7 with Gen 13:16, 28:14.
+The mortal children of Israel are described as Elohim, mighty ones, or as we have in the AV “gods”. Elohim describes the the mental state of the person, not their physical nature. Ambassadors of the father, regardless of whether they are mortal people or immortal angels. If they are empowered by the will of the spirit, they are indeed mighty ones.When mortal Elohim, mighty ones, do not keep the commandments of Yahweh then they are not immune – by any means – to the consequences of their actions. They will “die like men”.
Therefore we ought to take earnest heed to the things which we have heard. We have all the scriptures… even the testimony of the Son, which brings with it great responsibility (Heb 2:1-3). We comfort in that if we turn from wickedness we will be forgiven. Yet vigilant in the warning that turning to wickedness means rejection (Ezk 33:11-19).
- Ecclesia Plantanda (vicaranne.wordpress.com)
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787) … Englishman William Carey … Both men understood that sharing good news need not and must not wait for people to learn the evangelist’s tongue. - church oh church1 (ozyikhiedwardblog.wordpress.com)
why substitute “ecclesia” for “kyriakon”?to support the regular congregating of early Christians,who didn’t understand what Paul and Silas were doing!
What did the New Covenant writers mean when they used the word “Ecclesia” to describe a Christian body of people?? We can safely denote that they intended to convey the original Greek meaning of the word:”A body of Christian called out of Roman and Judean systems of Government,to live under a seperate civil mentality,”a politically autonomous body of Christians,under no other King but Yeshua,under no other civil laws,than that of Yeshua.But some misguided folks misunderstood the missions of Paul, that was why these Christians ran into trouble with kings and rulers,were arrested,crucified,and martyred. They dropped Caesar as their King,and took up Christ. The writers of the New covenant didn’t substitute “kyriakon” with “Ecclesia” to mean entertainment every Sundays,and Tuesdays,and so on! - Apostasy in the Highest Places (mysteryoftheiniquity.com)
The church, the Ecclesia, is a body of people who are redeemed called out to represent GOD and HIS Authority which means they are called to carry our HIS Laws. We are granted the responsibility of not only this but we are accountable for these actions.
The fact that the church is failing man is an undeniable truth but it’s also devastating to the people. How do I mean they are failing the people? - Priority to form a loving brotherhood (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
There might be people who do not like that others share the love of Christ with each other and do not mind being under Christ instead of being under one or the other organisation. - Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
Coming together in each-others houses, forming housechurches as a church of disciples they also were an assembly of learners. We too so many years later should be like them a church of Christian disciples and an assembly of persons who believe the things of the Kingdom of God, and of the Name of the lord Jesus, and, thus believing, have been immersed into Christ and patiently continue in the faith and well doing of their vocation, reading, marking, learning and inwardly digesting all things revealed in the scriptures of truth.
In the readings of today we look at the brothers and sisters in Corinth some 2000 years ago.
In Belgium the community has been troubled by persons perhaps wanting to claim to have the right to make foundations and to direct the groups of people wanting to come together under the name of Christ.
Paul the Apostle, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We remember how the apostle Paul makes the argument that he has borne witness to the people of Corinth, he has shared the gospel, he has brought them to Christ and showed them the way but that he has to be sad because he only could see division between those who should be united as brethren and sisters in Christ.
The apostle Paul in his 5th letter to the Romans and his first three letters to the Corinths, also talks…
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- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
-
Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
Tuesday-night at the meeting of the Ecclesia Brussel–Leuven we read Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 1+3, looking at the difficulties we have encountered the last few months and how we had to cope with it but also how we should continue our way.
Sometimes we do get to recognise we could not re-conciliate but have to turn over the page and leave those who did not want to be amicably connected with us on their own. Sometimes a community has the priority to protect its own flock and has to take measures which do not seem so pleasant for all people involved. When certain people prefer to stand on their own and are not willing to co-operate the community than has to decide to let them go their own way, but when they themselves did everything to blacken that community, they should not have to keep contact any more. As such we decided to leave the man from the North and his organisation far what they are, and shall concentrate ourselves on bringing people to Christ ourselves, without their help.
Jesus Christ is the man who opened the way to his Father. He is the One Mediator between God and man and is the cornerstone of the Church of God.
We do trust the Most High, Elohim Hashem Jehovah, Who shall call people and Who shall guide us and give us that what we need according to His time.
In Him we trust and give all our hope to build up His Church in Belgium and other parts in the world.
+++
Related articles
- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
Alexander Michalak writes: My preliminary examination of several Second Temple texts, 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, Joseph and Aseneth, Testament of Job, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs indicates that there is already at this time a connection between demons and the cult of foreign gods, although they are not always explicitly identified with one another. Sometimes the demonic spirits are said only to lead people astray, that is, to lead people toward Gentile worship and toward idolatry, whereas in other cases it is the demonic spirits who are the objects of worship, or the pagan gods themselves. - The House of Worship (causeitfeelsright.wordpress.com)
The Greek word that should have been translated to church was only used twice in the New Testament. It means “the Lord’s” and was used for the Lord’s day and the Lord’s supper. But this instance is ecclesia. It means “to call forth from out of”. Matthew says if you and the other person can’t work out your problems go get help. Go find a few more people to help because maybe they’ll understand a different perspective. If that doesn’t work go find the ones who have been called out of darkness (1 Peter). When you are in darkness you can’t see clearly and when you are “in the dark” you are ignorant which simply means you don’t know. So someone who has been called out can see clearly, or they are knowledgeable or “in the know” which is having “inside” information. - Mary, Martha & Lazarus – the family in Bethany (hadvarim.wordpress.com)
The gospel narrative then is largely concerned with Christ exposing the apostate Jewish leaders, and building up his apostles as “other husbandmen” to replace them. The parables recorded of the Kingdom of heaven throughout Matthew describe the kingdom of Israel in existence (Mat 11:12), under the governance of the prince of this world – the apostate Jewish leaders (John 12:31, 16:11, Eph 2:2, Luke 10:18, Mat 24:27), and then later to be replaced with the new heavens founded upon Christ as the Abrahamic seed stars are raised to the political heavens (Gen 15:5, Dan 12:2-3, Psa 19:4, 1 Cor 15:40-49, Apoc 4:1).
+
A people for his Name
Christ is described as the second Adam as compared to the first Adam (1 Cor 15:45-47). Both of them the “son of God” (Luke 3:38), and both typically created the same way. The body of Christ is the Ecclesia εκκλησια (Eph 5:23, 30, Col 1:18,24), and it is being formed from the Abrahamic dust, the seed of Abraham according to the promises of old; compare Gen 2:7 with Gen 13:16, 28:14.
+The mortal children of Israel are described as Elohim, mighty ones, or as we have in the AV “gods”. Elohim describes the the mental state of the person, not their physical nature. Ambassadors of the father, regardless of whether they are mortal people or immortal angels. If they are empowered by the will of the spirit, they are indeed mighty ones.When mortal Elohim, mighty ones, do not keep the commandments of Yahweh then they are not immune – by any means – to the consequences of their actions. They will “die like men”.
Therefore we ought to take earnest heed to the things which we have heard. We have all the scriptures… even the testimony of the Son, which brings with it great responsibility (Heb 2:1-3). We comfort in that if we turn from wickedness we will be forgiven. Yet vigilant in the warning that turning to wickedness means rejection (Ezk 33:11-19).
- Ecclesia Plantanda (vicaranne.wordpress.com)
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787) … Englishman William Carey … Both men understood that sharing good news need not and must not wait for people to learn the evangelist’s tongue. - church oh church1 (ozyikhiedwardblog.wordpress.com)
why substitute “ecclesia” for “kyriakon”?to support the regular congregating of early Christians,who didn’t understand what Paul and Silas were doing!
What did the New Covenant writers mean when they used the word “Ecclesia” to describe a Christian body of people?? We can safely denote that they intended to convey the original Greek meaning of the word:”A body of Christian called out of Roman and Judean systems of Government,to live under a seperate civil mentality,”a politically autonomous body of Christians,under no other King but Yeshua,under no other civil laws,than that of Yeshua.But some misguided folks misunderstood the missions of Paul, that was why these Christians ran into trouble with kings and rulers,were arrested,crucified,and martyred. They dropped Caesar as their King,and took up Christ. The writers of the New covenant didn’t substitute “kyriakon” with “Ecclesia” to mean entertainment every Sundays,and Tuesdays,and so on! - Apostasy in the Highest Places (mysteryoftheiniquity.com)
The church, the Ecclesia, is a body of people who are redeemed called out to represent GOD and HIS Authority which means they are called to carry our HIS Laws. We are granted the responsibility of not only this but we are accountable for these actions.
The fact that the church is failing man is an undeniable truth but it’s also devastating to the people. How do I mean they are failing the people? - Priority to form a loving brotherhood (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
There might be people who do not like that others share the love of Christ with each other and do not mind being under Christ instead of being under one or the other organisation. - Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them (christadelphianworld.blogspot.com)
Coming together in each-others houses, forming housechurches as a church of disciples they also were an assembly of learners. We too so many years later should be like them a church of Christian disciples and an assembly of persons who believe the things of the Kingdom of God, and of the Name of the lord Jesus, and, thus believing, have been immersed into Christ and patiently continue in the faith and well doing of their vocation, reading, marking, learning and inwardly digesting all things revealed in the scriptures of truth.
In the readings of today we look at the brothers and sisters in Corinth some 2000 years ago.
In Belgium the community has been troubled by persons perhaps wanting to claim to have the right to make foundations and to direct the groups of people wanting to come together under the name of Christ.
Paul the Apostle, Russian icon from first quarter of 18th cen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We remember how the apostle Paul makes the argument that he has borne witness to the people of Corinth, he has shared the gospel, he has brought them to Christ and showed them the way but that he has to be sad because he only could see division between those who should be united as brethren and sisters in Christ.
The apostle Paul in his 5th letter to the Romans and his first three letters to the Corinths, also talks…
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#ApostlePaul #Belgium #Brethren #Christadelphians #cityOfCorinth #CoOperation #Community #Corinthians #Cornerstone #Difficulties #Division #Ecclesia #Ego #Endurance #Faith #FocusOnSonOfGod #FollowersOfChrist #FollowingAChurch #FollowingJesusChrist #FoundationOfTheChurch #Gain #GainingPeace #Inion #InstrumentsOfGod #LettersToCorinthians #LettersToRomans #Meeting #Peace #Perseverance #Problems #Rejoice #ServingGod #Sorrows #Sufferings #TempleOfGod #ThinkingInHarmony #Trials #Tribulations #UnionWithGod
- New on the ASOR Blog- Ecclesia Diaboli (I Thought It Was Going to be about the Methodists…) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)