House Church Talk - public meetings

[Glenn Frank]

So... 
Did you draw any kind of conclusion or opinion from this experience? Or are
you thinking we should do so?

Just wondering if you wanted to do anything more than relate your
experience.

;-)

Glenn F




On 10/7/04 1:41 PM, "Robert L. Moseley" <robertlm at gvtc.com> wrote:

> 
> Hey there guys I have been following your posts concerning "public meetings"
> and just thought that I would chime in with my personal experience in public
> meetings.  I used to meet with a group of men at a local "Big Boys"
> restaurant.  When I joined the group they had been meeting for some 10+
> years and were primarily made up of Baptist folk who were maining engaging
> in Bible study.  No formal church type meeting as we did eat breakfast
> together as we met.  But as is generally the case after I joined them they
> began to disband and within a few months they larger part of them were gone
> and there was just 4 of us left.  From 15 of so down to 5 very quickly.  The
> five of us continued to meet until two of the group who were staunch
> Calvinists decided that the rest of us were too much not Calvinists and they
> left and went their way.  I eventually moved from Pasadena, TX to Canyon
> Lake and that left two of them...they would come to Canyon Lake on occasions
> and I met with them when I visited Pasadena.  Our friendship continued until
> our oldest member died and that ended the fellowship.
> 
> When we met we took up a large table and would usually meet for some 2 hours
> or so.  We did attract a bit of attention and on occasions we did take up
> space that was needed to accomodate the Saturday morning breakfast crowd.
> If there was any directed evangelism I was not aware of it...we had no
> leadership and when the group began to disintegrate it just happened and
> noone did anything about it.
> 
> Thanks for letting me ramble about this life in the public arena house
> church.