We are officially a family without a church

[navygoat1998]

Originally Posted by Esaias

We have family Sabbath worship on Friday evening at sunset, where we officially 'set aside' the Sabbath through prayer, praise, and worship, then we eat our 'Sabbath meal' which includes bread and wine. After supper, we will usually spend several hours discussing scripture or whatever is going on in each of our lives.

Sabbath morning we gather for prayer, singing psalms (and hymns! lol), and reading the Word, testifying, etc. We do this because we are to 'forsake not the assemblying of yourselves together'. Since all of us older ones are baptised believers we are not only a family but technically, if we gather in the Lord's name, we constitute a 'mini church' of sorts. So we gather together 'officially as the body of Christ'. We gather with each other simply because at this point we have nobody else to assemble with. If we did, we would in a heartbeat.

The 'meeting' will usually last about 2-3 hours but for several hours afterwards we are still 'fellowshipping', usually by means of extended bible discussion. Kids never seem to be short on questions about bible topics, lol.

Then on Saturday evening we have a meal (often with bread and wine again) with prayer and praise, psalm singing, etc.

I just really get irritated when people claim that if you aren't attending a modern institutional church meeting you are just sitting at the house backsliding in your LazyBoy zoned out on the boob tube.

Sounds like you have a drinking problem!