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7 hours ago, Willa said:

Yes, our secret to success is God's grace as well.  We have added a high school to our school and 10 portable buildings.  A new sanctuary is being built so that the gym we now meet in can be turned over to the school.  No one asks for or talks about money.  God provides our needs.  We still have 4 services on Sunday and a Wednesday sermon, prayer requests, questions and answers.  The sermons are still based on a book of the Bible, word upon word, precept upon precept.   We are not packed in as tightly as we once were but allow for more space between rows.  So there may not be as many in attendance, but we are still adding many by baptism, mostly adult men.  What we lack in committees is made up for by individual members reaching out to others in the community as the Lord leads them.  We celebrate the goodness of God.

Thanks for sharing about your church. I firmly believe that all of us in our generations have our "Ester" callings where we are placed in our churches and communities for 'Such a time as this' assignments from the Lord.

Don't get discouraged in well doing . . .  it is like the illustration (not sure where I heard this) about a boy who was on the beach one day and saw that there were thousands of star fish washed up on the beach after a bad storm. He started picking them up and throwing them back into the sea so they could live. After a while a man who was watching him said 'What difference can you make because there are so many star fishes to help, you can not possibly get to all of them before they die'.  The boy just kept picking up the star fishes and throwing them back into the sea . . . after a while the man said 'Didn't you hear me? What difference can that make among so many that will die?'

The boy said to him as he threw a fish back into the sea . . . "It made a difference to that one" . . . 

I am saddened by the number of people experiencing bad things (or what they perceive are bad, when trying to judge leadership's motives) in churches. My heart goes out to them because they cannot or will not assemble with other believers for various reasons and miss the blessings of giving and receiving in church life activity and  functions. It has made me realize just how blessed I am to have an authentic NT church home where I am built up and encouraged to help people (one person at a time).

I pray that all who read this find their 'Ester assignments for such a time as this' . . . . . . . Grace and Peace . . . . Ray . . . 

 

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My church has had somewhat of a decline of 'increasing' in-person attendance, but, not by alot holding steady with small increases yearly. Our finances has increased every year since 2020 and our mini

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Yes, our secret to success is God's grace as well.  We have added a high school to our school and 10 portable buildings.  A new sanctuary is being built so that the gym we now meet in can be turned ov

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The Lord will lead you to them. I have found fellowship with the Body of Christ in the most unsuspecting places. I wasn't looking, because I was occupied with doing that which the Lord set before

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May God bless all of you and your churches that continue to follow our Lord and His teaching. What is missing today in the PCC is the message of the end times. The members may have an inner sense, God given, but the preaching and the ministry is lacking. The current adulation of the LGBT+ is something that I do not understand yet know that our enemy has turned the hearts of the people to him. We are looking at those in charge of the denomination willing to follow the world not what they made an oath to do. It is frustrating and heartbreaking but at the same time when one senses the absence of the Holy Spirit all is lost. The leadership will have much to answer. God did not abandon the people, the people abandoned God.

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Do you know what country in the world has the fastest underground Church?

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Just now, missmuffet said:

Do you know what country in the world has the fastest underground Church?

I think it might be Iran today.

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Just now, debrakay said:

I think it might be Iran today.

Yes.

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@Starise I forgot to mention the author I have been reading is Charles Ryrie.  His writing is within my ability to understand and not continually having to go to a dictionary. I am not a scholar in the least bit and more like a fisherman, fisherwoman. :D

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1 hour ago, debrakay said:

@Starise I forgot to mention the author I have been reading is Charles Ryrie.  His writing is within my ability to understand and not continually having to go to a dictionary. I am not a scholar in the least bit and more like a fisherman, fisherwoman. :D

Author of the Ryrie study Bible? 

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Author of the Ryrie study Bible? 

Yes, he did the Ryrie Study Bible. He had written 30 books before he passed in 2016. I just did his study of Revelation. I am in 1 & 2 Thessalonians now.  I have "The Holy Spirit" and "Balancing the Christian Life" to go. I buy used books from Thriftbooks,com for a few dollars (no shipping for $15 order) and then give them away to family and friends or donate them.  

Yes, I am a book worm.  :26: My husband likes to say "You know just enough to get yourself in trouble." That is the BEE part of me. Buzzzzzzzzzz........... :shout:"Is anyone listening to me?"  LOL!!!

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Dispensational like Scofield I think.

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2 minutes ago, Starise said:

Dispensational like Scofield I think.

I don't know all the theology stuff.  I read.  The Lord leads.  I read more.

Much like Mary, I ponder things in my heart. :wub: 

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