House Church Talk - public meetings

[Robert L. Moseley]

No special message or hidden agenda just the rambling about an experience
that I had in meeting in a public place for study of the Word.

Bob Moseley, from the hills of Texas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Frank" <glennfrank at earthlink.net>
To: <House Church Talk  at housechurch.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: House Church Talk -  public meetings


> 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
>
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> 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.
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