House Church Talk - Practical HC Question....

[David Anderson]

>In trying to please everyone sometimes no one is pleased. Now one couple is
>talking of going to the local Vineyard Church for "teaching" and "worship."

      HI Dan,

Good to be buzzing with you again, mighty warrior.

I wish that this unhappy couple - as a team of priests to whom God has 
promised wisdom - were interested in bringing the very things to the 
meeting which they appear to be searching for elsewhere. <Collective 
sigh.>

True, lotsa folks have a constant itch for something new and different 
and I can add little or nothing to the replies already given to your 
practical question... 

Sometimes, I suspect that complaints about the lack of "teaching and 
worship" are just masks for other problems such as an unwillingness to 
love or an unspoken desire to re-enter the world of spectator or cerebral 
Christianity.

Just remember that Christians should be welcome in ANY place and that 
"church membership" has been greatly exaggerated to the point that even 
many house churches are still operating in the "parish" system. In other 
words, those who come once or for a season were never our members anyway 
but members of the one true church which meets in innumerable localities.

Above all, I know you'll leave the light on and the door open for these 
'departees.' I am confident that you, Brenda, and the gang have had 
nothing but good-will towards all those whom Providence has sent to your 
corner of the Columbus area. So, your/their labor is/was never in vain.

Btw, Carolynn, a former Dayton-ite, still asks now and then: Oh why, Oh 
why Oh, did I leave Ohio ????  :-)  

And, Dan, I think I heard that it was over the skies of Ohio where the 
9/11 hijackers turned one of the planes around before Todd Beamer sprang 
into action. How ironic, in that you Ohioians were the "1st in flight." 
We need to talk. :)

     love you,

        David Anderson
         Tennessee