God has a tendency to remind me of things learned but forgotten. But when remembered, it is quite the refill.
CGC had service in the fellowship hall today, as opposed to the usual place of the gym. The gym was being used as a temporary shelter for the homeless they were taking care of for the week.
Sitting in the fellowship hall, I was reminded of the many house churches that take place around the world as well as the couple times CCF held house church when services were canceled because of that ridonkolous snow.
Why do we have church? Why do we go to church? What is a church? What is the Church?
Revelation 19 describes Christ as warrior ready and willing to fight for His bride, the Church. On the same note, Paul writes in Ephesians 6 that we are called to don the armor of God in order to fight for Him as well.
How devoted those early Christ-followers must have been when they were just starting out. To have met in peoples' homes. To have sung hymns without the music. To have practiced in the face of persecution. Even today, the same struggles continue.
They knew what these meetings were for. They knew this one body that Paul writes of in 1 Corinthians 12. They knew why all this mattered.
How wonderful it was for them to know and for us now to know this thing called fellowship. κοινωνία. 團契.
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