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STARTING A HOUSE CHURCH
March 2, 2005 - by Grace Wiebe
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My personal (editor's note) recommendation on this, though, is that as helpful as it is to find out what others are doing or have done, only the Holy Spirit knows what the best situation is for YOU and those He wants to bring into your situation. Only He knows what He wants to do in and through you in your neighbourhood/region and what His timing is. He knows the gifts, experience and vision He's given you, and He knows all of your backgrounds.
I firmly believe that as you wait on the Lord to connect you with the people He wants you to move forward with in His timing, He will bring things to pass as He leads you ONE STEP AT A TIME.
I have found that often (this happened in my experience as well), although many people want to begin to move ahead with house/simple churches as soon as they sense God calling them in these directions, that He often seems to bring them through a time where they are in a 'no man's land' where they are no longer a part of a traditional church, but are not yet part of a house/simple church.
However, they are often finding deepening fellowship with
all kinds of believers and often becoming increasingly convinced of the need
for the kind of Body life that is more easily possible in a house/simple church
gathering. It is often during this time that God is increasingly changing
their paradigm at not only a head level but a heart level, and also beginning
to remove from their hearts more and more of the 'religious SYSTEMS' of traditional
ways of experiencing life as the Church, in order to prevent them from bringing
these same systems into the type of FAMILY LIFE He wants them to experience
as He moves them forward in His timing…It also often seems to be a time
of Him testing us to see how serious we are about this, and a time when we
experience misunderstandings from believing friends around us who do not understand
the direction we sense the Holy Spirit leading us. He will not leave you nor
forsake you and is your Wonderful Counsellor. He will lead you in His timing
and ways as you continue to seek Him!
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