My experience in life is that wherever I am, I need the fellowship in Christian family community. This testimony by Linda Berling is very powerful:
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My friends and I were going to join a political demonstration in Uppsala. I was waiting for them outside a church when I
suddenly heard a voice saying "Go inside and warm yourself in
the Church". I answered loudly and angrily. "Never in my life will I go into a church." But it was as if I was being pulled in. The
day after this, I went with some to a revival meeting. There I become a Christian. |
Linda experienced God`s presence in there and works now with great eagerness to welcome others into the warmth. I am grateful for all the good things I got as a child from the warmth of Töftedal's Mission Church in Dalsland, even if I didn't understand everything and ..... slept during many meetings.
We are now working purposefully here in Ubon-Pakse to welcome people who need Christian family-community. Many here live back home in broken family relationships and Streams of Grace becomes a wonderful living and loving family.
Locking yourself in your own world is dangerous. We need each other to be helped and to be able to help others. We need advisors. "Where there is no counsel the people fall: but in the multitude of counsel there is safety". Proverbs 11:14-15.
The best thing in life is to dare to become part of a living biblical church community.
Acts 3:20 "and times of new life (revival, rest) come from the face of the Lord and he sent ......Jesus.
We may think: "I am not good enough to go to a church" or "Those who are there are not good enough". But we are all good enough in the Biblical church community. No congregation is perfect, but it pulses with the presence of Jesus and becomes our spiritual family.
".....in every way grow up to him who is the head, Christ. By him the whole body is joined together and held together by the support which each joint gives, with the power distributed to each individual part. So the body gets his growth and builds himself up in love Eph 4:15-16
Enter and warm yourself in the Christian community. Jesus is there with his heavenly Agape love and there is God's Open Heaven.
Ingvar (Fred)
