This is a place where people come together to seriously seek the Lord at all costs, and to learn and grow. Tell me what your local church is like. Big or small? Fundamental or Liberal? Do you agree with all that they do? Do you claim it as your church even though you don't agree with all that they do? What drew you to that place? Are you surrounded by like minded people? Just a few questions
This is a place where people come together to seriously seek the Lord at all costs, and to learn and grow.AMEN! my prayer is that everyone that comes to this site would seek the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind, body! at all cost, with all that we are .. we seek thee Lord.Tell me what your local church is like.The Church that I have been a member for 7 years is Knox Presbyterian Church. It is a very nice old building, it could be considered a historic landmark in Toronto. It has a great heritage of men of God preaching the truth, some namely are: William Fitch, J. Glyn Owen, John Vissers.. (these speakers are available on this site). I personally don't agree with all of what the presbyterian Church stands for. Its like Charles Finney who was ordained an Presybterian minister, and when his preaching was raising questions in his congregation, he was asked to review the westiminster catachism, and afterwards he said that he didn't agree with half of it. I have been brought to the presbyterian Church for a reason, but the more I learn of the doctrine of Calvinism and strict reformed teachings, I start to feel like Charles Finney in some ways :-D Do you claim it as your church even though you don't agree with all that they do?That's something I have really been praying about alot recently. But the more I look at the faults in the Church the more I realize its my reflection I am looking at. :-o Are you surrounded by like minded people?As far as I can tell no! But some people seem to be on the same wave length of praying for revival.
Here's the text from our little welcome leaflet. It gives the flavour of what we are.Perhaps this is your first visit here, and you are a little curious as to what the Earley Christian Fellowship really is. Why is it here? What is its role or goal? Perhaps if we introduce ourselves a little more fully...The Earley Christian Fellowship really began in the late 1960's in an ordinary home in Harcourt Drive, Earley, Reading. Hence the "Earley" part of our label. A few local Christians, together with a few Christian students from the university met to pray informally. Many found those times a particular blessing and a regular encouragement in their own lives. A sense of "belonging" began to develop, and the gatherings continued and began to increase in numbers. Many people came into a personal experience of the love of Christ for the first time, and others discovered a new dimension of spiritual life. Other homes also served as the venue for the group, and when it outgrew standard-sized private homes the meetings moved into rented schoolrooms and ultimately into a large Victorian house on the Wokingham Road. This house, now known affectionately simply as "153", was bought at this time. The 153 site, also includes a smaller house, and now the new meeting hall.The Earley Christian Fellowship is unashamedly Christian. This is not just a doctrinal statement, but a happy declaration that we now belong to Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We have become aware of His love towards us and of His power to change our lives, and are enjoying our new Owner's special care. We are discovering the freedom of sins forgiven and the joy of consciences at peace with God and man. For Christ's sake God has forgiven and received us, and bonded us into His family. We do not regard Him as an absentee owner, but are conscious of His Spirit's personal presence among us to guide and instruct. Our common desire is to love Him and serve Him faithfully, and to this end our Christianity is firmly bible-based and, we pray, Christ centred.The Earley Christian Fellowship is a local, non-denominational church. The word "`fellowship" has to do with being partners. The New Testament church was the scene of a partnership of man with God, and consequently of man with man; a new kind of family where origins of race and class were lost in the joy of serving together. The Earley Christian Fellowship is a non-denominational church, not because we wish to be exclusive, but because we see ourselves as inseparably included in the worldwide family of all God's people. If the word "church" puts you in mind of pulpits, pews and parsons your visit here may raise some questions. We make no apologies when we say that our fervent desire is for a simple, uncluttered Christianity where Christ can be head over all things to the church which is His body.We do pray that you have enjoyed your visit, have felt welcome, and will feel free to return. May God's blessing and presence go with you.
My church is Forest Heights Baptist Church. It's a small church, with mostly older married couples and families. This is a college town, but the college and youth groups are small. I'm there because I prayed before moving here that God would bring me to the church He wanted me at, and I was later told after asking to become a member that I'm an answer to prayer -- my heart is in peer outreach and evangelism, and they had been praying for someone to reach the college students. I was drawn by the people...the fellowship and sincerity. The Christians make the church (body), especially when they remember who the Head is. We're not all completely like-minded, but the differences are nothing to divide over.
Tell me what your local church is like.I live in a town called Tralee, so the church I belong to is "the church in Tralee". I don't mean to be funny by saying that. It is a truth that God has made very real to our hearts, that we belong to the company of the redeemed in our town. Many of course have formed themselves into differnt independent fellowships or churches, but we see that all the redeemd in the town make up the one church.We have meetings in our home, which we have aways tried to empahsise are not a seprate churchbut merely an open house for members of the church to come in and meet together. On sundays we spend time worshiping the Lord and alowing those gifts which he has given to be used in the edification of the body, we generaly have a meal together and remember that it is because of our Lord's death that we are joined together.Tuesdays we have a time of prayer and searching the scriptures (and being searched by the scriptures) together.But we recognise that "the meeting" in and of itself isn't the church. The church is us, our brothers and sisters in the locality, sharing Christ's life together encouraging each other to grow in connection to the Head, this we seek to do with the whole church (as much as is possible) not just those that meet in the house with us.
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