While the church doesn't have a website and can't be found on a GPS, God still used technology to lead us to the church. An email to a pastor of a church over 100 miles from Beloit tipped me off to the Village Missions website, which is how I discovered our new church. It was down on the bottom of our list of churches to try and yet somehow it was meant to be at the top of God's list.
I am so thankful for men of God who are willing to devote their time and energy to tiny rural churches. Their goal cannot be to build big churches in terms of attendance, but to faithfully serve their Savior by preaching the Word and helping members to grow spiritually. Thousands of times I have prayed for God to lead us to a home church and He has answered that prayer. I just want to remind myself to thank God for our church as often as I prayed and requested Him to direct us to one. That's difficult to do isn't it? Too often God answers prayer and then we go on to begin begging Him to answer whatever pressing need we have.
Pastor is preaching through Philippians and on Sunday he expounded on these verses:
"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy." Philippians 1:4-5I want this to be what I can say regarding my new church family. We have felt the connection we have in Christ with them. Don't you love that unexplainable connection? It can be stronger than biological ties and that can often be a good thing. No, I don't have just one sister, I have hundreds of sisters who I love and pray for regularly. Won't heaven be a wonderful place?
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So happy for you! What a blessing it is to have a church home. May God richly bless you and them as you worship and serve the LORD together.
ReplyDelete"It can be stronger than biological ties and that can often be a good thing." That is a very good thing, congratulations! God is faithful!!
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