Am I seated beside you?
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Am I seated beside you?
Heb. 10:25, Let us not give up meeting together as some are in the
habit of doing, but let us encourage one another- and all the more as
you see the day approaching. {NIV} The author was writing to the
church .Moving to a new state in Nov. was difficult enough, finding a
church home has become a battle. We’ve sat in too many churches that
haven’t encouraged fellowship to new families. The reproach you feel
saddens the spirit as you long for Christian fellowship. Membership in
cults are rising, we’ve experienced why. They offer immediate visits,
calls and are eager to bible chat with new people, anything it takes
to encourage another. Of’ Satan knows this and has used it against the
church. I’ve found it hard not to cry after leaving a Sunday service
feeling left out of fellowship with others as members huddle to their
clicks’. I am reminded to repent for the way if may have treated
others in Jr. High School, I am now 36. I’ve felt the pain of
attending a church for 2 months, where the pastors’ wives never came
and chatted with me. I still don’t know their names. I phoned the
church for prayer twice, was prayed with, than Sundays came and went
the voice on the phone never presented a face, not even a word. My
children have endured the church hoping with us, discouraged
expressions say so much as we aimlessly wonder. My husband witnessed
to a man who was studying with a cult, and explained what it was yet;
we hadn’t a church home to take his family to. I picked up a young
woman crying on the side of the road she had a church, the pastor was
to busy to call her that day she was told. Her husband just left her
and she knew not a phone number of anyone from her church of 2 yrs..
We prayed. I’ve met a woman who has attended the same church for 4
yrs., she hasn’t a girlfriend in the church. Those spirits are
suffering. What can we do? What can you do? Heb. 10:25 tells us; The
next time new comers enter Gods sanctuary remember to show love, after
all this is the greatest commandment of all. The cards that are filled
out by the new comers ask for a phone number. Call them! Share a
scripture, 10 min. on the phone may save a soul~ that’s our Christian
responsibility. Call the new comer or member you’ve never called to
agree in pray with you as you pray that day. Have you heard a good
sermon, or Christian joke on the radio or TBMN? Share it with them
they may not even know that Christian airwaves exist. Call; ask to
pray with them for their needs. Drop off cookies and a scripture with
another member. Invite them to go on the next visit. Perhaps that
family who has poor attendance. There are at least 10 woman per small
church; this would allow a lot of 10-mint fellowships. Men need this
to, they are commanded to lead the family. How can anyone learn to be
a Christian without example and encouragement? Cults have this, let us
win Gods people back.
Sadly we are still searching for a church home, and friends to bible
chat with. We still pray for our children to have Christian friends.
We pray for a reawakening in the church. Praise God for the pastor
that has been willing to counsel us through this. The lord will
provide we are undergoing this trial for his will and you?
Am I seated beside you?
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