I became engaged to an amazing man after several years of dating. We were both dedicated to our own respective churches and in hindsight, we could both pinpoint that a part of our hesitancy in taking our relationship to the next level several years ago was that we did not know how we would be able to merge our church attendance into one, going to seperate churches was not an option for us. In a symbolic moment to extend my willingness to compromise for the greater sake of our relationship, I decided to leave the church that I had been a member for the last several years to join his church. After I became a member of his church, after a few months, my fiance decided that we needed to embark on a journey to find a church that WE could call our own. I really appreciate and adore him for a number of reasons in this entire matter:
1. Allowing me to extend to him my desire to place him as the spiritual head of our household and exemplify that I was willing to follow him.
2. Take note that he noticed a difference in my reactions and not place me in the position to have to ask him to start looking for another church home when I was not feeling like I had a 'gel' fit.
3. He started to put forth the effort to find some locations for us to visit.
4. He is supportive of the vision that I shared with him that we could take on as we go about this journey.
5. He is prayerful that we will find exactly what we need.
While a member of the church that I attended, Destiny Metropolitan Worship Church, I was extremely active in ministry. I enjoyed my time there and had the opportunity to expand my ministerial knowledge exponentially. I read a number of books, attended several conferences, soaked up a number of lessons from persons who had been in the ministry, talked to many people, and read the Bible to seperate what I had been taught in church over the years from what was actually scripturally based. In all of that, I have developed a number of truths that are not meant to be all-inclusive, but are the essentials of my thoughts as it relates to gatherings of Christian believers in dwellings across the country:
-The church is a gathering of imperfect Christians who know about a perfect being. The more that we realize the perfection of the one that we adore, the more that we need to start to realize our imperfection. From time to time, in all of our imperfection, we lose sight of this and start to think that we are indeed the perfect being. None of us are perfect-from the leaders to the visitors.
-Our goal as Christians is simple, yet the most complex task that we can ever take on. Simple complexity. Because it is so simple, we often think that it is so easy that we do not have to do anything in order to accomplish our goal. In fact, we think that it is so simple that we really don't have to do it. The complexity lies wherein we need to make sure to actually pay attention and react to the information presented to us.
-Being a believer means that a Savior saved you as well as me (AND He loves others as well). Being a believer means that you are caled to join in fellowship with other believers. Being a believer means that you are to go about the work of spreading the word of God.
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