House Church Week 2

            I have to say off the bat that I love house church!  It is so me.  I am really connecting with people and with God.  House church this week was a perfect example of how that happens.  We began by eating dinner.  During this time we shared about life, celebrated with each other and just enjoyed who God has placed us with. 

            This week was my week to lead, so I had a semi-detailed plan.  The plan was to move from food to sharing what God had taught us this week about himself through the scriptures.  That didn’t happen.  The sister-in-law of one of our members had had surgery and we prayed for her.  We were concerned because of some relational issues.  So, we as a group prayed before we did anything else.  After that we shared what God was teaching us.  Each person shared and it was awesome to see some common themes emerge.  One great thing was that one of the kids shared what he had learned about God during the week.  Through this time of sharing an issue of theology came up, and we had a spirited discussion about the scriptures.  Our differences though did not keep us from loving or being with each other.

Next, we prayed corporately for at least half an hour.  We prayed for people to fall in love with Jesus.  We prayed for healings and miracles for people.  We prayed for God to move in our own lives and we prayed scripture and claimed promises.  It was moving prayer.   We then moved on to talked about a passion for Jesus found in John 15.  I led the discussion but almost everyone contributed.  Passages from all over the Bible were read and thoughts about what is meant by fruit were shared.

Following this discussion we prayed for one of our members.  This person didn’t ask for it, we just did it.  As a group we took turns praying for him and what God would have for him.  We listened to God; we asked Him to impart words for this member and tried to hear what the Holy Spirit was saying to him.  It was amazing.  We probably prayed for him for twenty minutes or so.  Lastly, we ate dessert.  What can I say?  We eat a lot in our house church.

Overall it was what I hoped for, the spirit moved, we changed agenda items, we studied together, we prayed together, we debated each other and we shared our lives together.  While there is a different leader each week it is our goal that the Holy Spirit would be our guide, that He would show up and mess with us and make us more like Jesus.