Come Out Of Her My People

[navygoat1998]

Originally Posted by Amanah

I have nothing against house church, but:

I know of none that preach the Oneness, Acts 2:38 message, and I just can't get excited about people making a decision for Christ and not receiving the new birth.

It is not impossible but unlikely that the 5 fold ministry and 9 gifts of the Spirit are going to be in operation in a handfull of people who are not in fellowship with the larger body of Christ.

There is much benefit in being with a group that has Bible quizzing, youth, ladies, & mens retreats, organized outreach, pooling resources to feed the poor, and help the needy, support missions, ect.

The UPC church that I'm attending has seen thousands baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. We have daughter works throughout the county to reach people, We are seeing people being baptized and filled on a regular basis. We support missions, have a bible teaching institute, support young evangelists with opportunities to minister. At the moment we are collecting 25,000 shoes for the people of Haiti.

We are doing so much more to advance the kingdom, than we could sitting home by ourselves focusing on our small differences, versus coming together and having revival.

We are in a 40 day progressive fast right now, and the Spirit of God is so pervasive and in evidence in our meetings that people are being filled, healed, delivered, changed, empowered, renewed, encouraged.

I would not trade this precious treasure, my Pastor and church family, for anything.

And I know I am where I'm supposed to be.

Hey Sister,
Years ago my wife and I had decided that we wanted to move from California to Florida and we were looking at your church because we both have family scattered around the area.

So we took it to the pastor and told him what we were thinking about doing and even told him that we had seen the church online and we would love to go and be part of what that church was doing.

First off he was still mad at us for getting married without his "permission" and he told us that he could and would not bless our move and that furthermore he and that pastor are personal friends. So we went back to our pews and shut our mouths until we had enough.

I am so glad that he did that and I owe him a thank you because if not we would not be where we are today and much like you we believe that we are where we are suppose to be we have seen God move in our midst and do things that would not have happened if we would have stayed.

We love our AG church and it is as much Pentecostal as any UPC church I have been in. It is a large church maybe about the size of your church. Our church does things with the least of these in our community , state and the world. The Gospel is being preached souls are being saved and the great commission is being and walked out.