say prayers – Kanisa la Christadelphian huko Anderlecht

Even though we do not have a publicly freely accessible, easily recognizable ecclesia building, we want to open up our ecclesia or church to people of all kinds, race, country nature, culture or language.

In our West Brussels ecclesia in Anderlecht we hope to receive different people and to address them in French, Swahili but also in Dutch and English. By default, the services will take place in Anderlecht in French and Swahili, compared to our other ecclesiae in English, French and Farsi.

Our community of faith consists of members who want to open up to others as brothers and sisters in Christ to make known our Nazarene teacher Jesus Christ.

We are convinced that Jesus through our Heavenly Father, Jehovah God, was sent to earth as a Saviour to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to bring the Kingdom of Christ to life. In our community, we recall how Jesus lived, and preached the Word of God, but also how he was put to death on a stake for the forgiveness of our sins. We also want to express to others our hope of the testimony of many people that Jesus rose from the dead after his death and again promised that he would return as the time will be found ripe by God.

As Jesus was brought back to life by the Only True God, who created everything and made sure that we may be here on earth now, we believe and want to let others know that this resurrection from the dead can and will come to us. For this we have to wait until the end of the times or the end of all things

In our ecclesia, we want to prepare people for the appointed times, when we as humans will be tested and will have to withstand the incredibly severe violence against humanity that will use the adversaries of God to take the people away from God.

Thanks to God the Father, the son is still available to send us and, seated at God’s right hand, he will act as a mediator for us. Through his teaching, we want to be guided and build our community to Biblical standards.

We follow the first-century building of the faith communities of those who wanted to follow Jesus Christ. Although certain Jewish Laws no longer apply to all followers of Jesus, we also realise that certain Jewish laws or rules of life have not disappeared or been abolished at all. The Supreme God who was also the God of Abraham and Jesus made His commandments and rules known to man so that he would have firm guidance. His Words have been recorded for many generations who can follow these Words by reading and studying the Bible. A lot of time is spent on reading the Bible in our ecclesia. Furthermore, in that Book of Books there are also songs and prayers indicated to praise and honour God. We will use these but also contemporary prayers in our faith community to encourage us and ask God to protect us, to train and accept as children of Him.

In the previous article, you could read how the Greek word for « church » is « ekklesia« , and simply refers to that meeting or gathering, meeting of the called ones, or meeting of those who were « proclaimed« . « Church » was an unreligious word referring to a group of people considered to be followers of Jesus. The ecclesia does not really refer to a building but concerns people. It represents the group of people who have decided to come together to praise and honour God.

We in Anderlecht wish to offer such a place where people can feel at home and where we can hold meetings to study the Word of God, praise and honour God as well as commemorate the last supper of Jesus and his apostles and share the bread and wine with each other.

It must be remembered when When Jesus said

« I will build my church »

he was not talking about a literal building he was going to erect, but about a community he would form and support. We thus form a community under Christ and would like to invite others to join that brotherhood of Christ or that Church of Christ as well.

We want to show people that « church » means more than a church building or the Roman Catholic Church or a church of the Pentecostal movement. As ecclesia, we see it as one of our tasks to clarify the confusion of concepts surrounding « church. By the way, it is to avoid confusion that we prefer to use the word « ecclesia » for whatever one might call our society or gathering or brothers or followers.

We pretend to be obedient to the « Supreme Lord who is above all lords » whom we as our Only God uphold. We have also resolved to be stimulated by His Word so that we can grow and continue to work to grow the entire faith community. We therefore expect our members to show their willingness to take up God’s Word together to learn lessons from it and to let themselves through that Word « fertilize ».

As a community of believers, we expect all baptized members to take the right attitude to cultivate the right attitude among anyone who wants to join us in our ecclesia and our brotherhood.
As in a fine family, we want to form a community of willing children, interested in always learning and growing, always with each other’s helping hand and according to the Will of God. To this end, those who commit themselves to the True Faith must be aware of the promises of God and His Plan for the entire world. In this way, we also want to commit ourselves and work together to follow the instructions about joy and suffering and to look joyfully at the reward that God has for His loved ones provided.

As a community, we are willing to share God’s salvation with people around us, in and outside our community.

Although we are all different personalities, unity in the same faith is Jesus the Messiah the driving factor for the whole community and it is that shared hope that gives everyone joy of life and everyone share in the same hope-for-the-future.

Our part is to be faithful ships of the love of God (2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Timothy 2:21). That is why we are committed to being diligent and obedient to the order « to be execution followers ». That is clearly not a passive order that we want to follow up and fulfill together.

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