When we fear Jehovah, the supreme God, we also want to serve and please Him fully. When we come together in a house, hall, kingdom hall or temple to serve God, we want to come together united as brothers and sisters to complete a full assembly in Christ’s name.
So you can endear yourself to Jehovah and become more useful to the church as you work on qualities that God loves. If we completely hand ourselves over to God, He will guide us to move forward.
“He keeps the humble in the straight track, The simple He shows His path;” (Psalms 25:9)
“Highly exalted is Jehovah: yet He looks down on the humble, And knows the proud from afar!” (Psalms 138:6)
Think under prayer about where there is still room for improvement in your personality. Choose one specific property you want to focus on.
Could you work on your empathy? Can you try to become more peaceful? Do you have to work on your willingness to forgive?
Meeting regularly is an excellent opportunity to develop a love for each other. We look forward to helping everyone around us grow into someone who, in turn, can also bring others to Christ. The meeting is an opportunity to meet each other, and exchange ideas, but also to share the same love with each other. Sharing love also means being there for each other and having the best for each other.
You could ask a good friend for suggestions for improvement.
Out of loyalty, a friend inflicts wounds, but an enemy overwhelms you with kisses. (Proverbs 27:6)
When we meet together, it comes down to supporting and building each other. Everyone must show full respect to each other. In the house of God, there is no room for contempt or jealousy. It must be done in full love if one wants something clear to someone else. And the person who is rightly pointed out for something must regard it as a helping hand. Everyone must be diligent and help the others. As brothers and sisters, we must be attached to each other and responsible for each other’s growth, by helping to lead the Scriptures and correcting them where necessary.
“I rebuke and chastise all that I love. So do your best and repent.” (Revelation 3:19)
If we are busy in the ecclesia to be at the service of others, we will also feel good. Jesus himself has said:
“Giving makes you happier than receiving.”’
Everyone who comes together in the House of God should aim to give Jehovah the best he or she has in him. One must be careful not to compare oneself with others or try to be ‘better’ or ‘more’ than someone else. Be grateful to Jehovah, whatever it is, that with your health, education or talent you are able to do. Does some aspect of the service go better than you? Then be glad that they use their talents to praise Jehovah.
“Let everyone investigate his own behavior; then at most he will be able to boast of himself, but certainly not by comparison with others;” (Galatians 6:4)
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- The spiritual “garment” for our soul
- A new ecclesia = a new beginning
- Coming together to overcome our differences and save something bigger than us
- How to start a house church?
- Whether or not you feel at home in a church
- Prayer to know God’s Will to live appropriately before Him
- A possession on earth in all salvation
- What are the obligations for a Christian?
- Love expressed
- Be pure to meet God
- Love in the ecclesia
- We must be faithful to God
- A house with fertile soil full of plants of love
- No place for injustice, partiality or corruption
- Make a plan to make friends
- A community of faith to take over the torch
- Lord God makes us come together and grow
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Additional reading
- Not created to be on our own
- Time to add value
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Looking on what is going on and not being of it
- Some one or something to fear #5 Not afraid
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- Meeting
- Making church
- Problem of an aging church
- What’s church for, anyway?
- Decrease in church attendance not only a recent feature #5 Necessity of attendance
- High time to devote ourselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship
- Even with a few gathering
- Looking for a biblically sound church
- Two Ways, Revisited
- Division, diversity, unity and connection
- Soar to Places Unknown
- Reasons to come to gether
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them (Some View on the World) = Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them (Our World)
- A Living Faith #11 My place in the body of Christ and my ecclesia
- Sunday Observance
- Worship and worshipping
- Call to help others
- Breathing and growing with no heir
- Letting others know about the wedding invitation
- A participation in the body of Christ
- Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
- How should we worship God? #6 Preachers and Teachers
- How should we worship God? #14 True worship
- Being in isolation #3 Gathering and Sharing
- Leading with Fear: Gathering or Scattering?
- An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
- How to Form an Ecclesia
- How do you become a « Virtual » Bible School attendee?
- Zoom sessions and gathering in real life
- God won’t ask
- Communion and day of worship
- When there is secrecy involved
- A House for God in our 21st century
- Brothers and sisters in Christ for you
- Christadelphian Halls