When looking forward to new baptisms Several new members will be baptised in our ecclesia in Anderlecht in a few weeks’ time. Before they will be baptised, we will first check whether they agree with the biblical points of faith. This is because there are many denominations that do not actually follow those Biblical thoughts… Read More On looking forward to new baptisms
You may have noticed that fewer publications have been posted here on this Brussels-Leuven ecclesia site. This was because my health failed somewhat, but also because I have spent more time building a new ecclesia in Anderlecht in recent months. We notice that, even though we send many Dutch-language magazines, few Dutch-language visitors come… Read More Just fewer publications due to the start-up of a new ecclesia
Last week, just before 14 Nisan we were asked if there was tithing in our community in Belgium. In many ways, Christadelphians or Brethren in Christ may be called a strangely idiosyncratic or on its own existing community. Among its members, there is no real general obligation beyond faith in Jesus Christ and in his… Read More Being asked about Tithing
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? An autobiography for a church sounds weird. Though, certain churches can use some history exposure. Throughout history, there have been many groups of people who tried to form a community or religious group where they wanted to worship the Divine Creator of heaven and earth. Like there… Read More How the autobiography of the Belgian Christadelphian community would look like
2018-19 starts without a meeting place in the region Brussel-Leuven and negative financial cyphers. We urgently look for people willing to help us building up our faith-community in this godless region.… Read More By the opening of the Season 2018-2019
For Christadelphians or Brothers in Christ it is important to walk in the ways Jesus Christ showed us to walk, after God. In the Bible the word “Walk” is also used to denote our conduct in this life or our walk in life. Too many who call themselves Christian do seem to forget that. They… Read More An attitude taken to those who attack us and other unitarians
When people go around looking for a different church they were used to, they have to question themselves, sincerely asking their inner soul “What do I really want? What I am looking for?” You should know that rabbi Jesus said, “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:18-20). It is all too easy to… Read More When seeing a biblically sound church
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?? 3 Reasons Why You Should Go To A Small Church Before you go on assuming please know that I have nothing personal against the contemporary “mega-church” movement but I do think that attending a small church will more consistently grow God’s children into spiritual maturity. I also want…
Fellowship with each other and fellowship with God When we do believe in the Nazarene Jew Jeshua to be the Messiah and follow his teachings we know we have to go out in the world to tell them the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God. It would be nice if we can convince… Read More As a small church needing encouragement
Originally posted on Wisdomforlife:
Conflict management 101 “Virtually all theorists of conflict management agree that parties to a conflict must share larger or ultimate values in common as a basis on which to resolve their differences.” (Hugh Halverstadt, Managing Church Conflict, p. 212). Two important examples Two areas that significantly disrupt unity are differences in giftedness effecting…
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I am extremely grateful for a friend who shared this poem by ee cummings with me. I hope it is OK to reproduce it here. It is something I shall be living out of for a while. It makes me ask questions; I am not sure I agree with…
Ryan asks: Isn’t it the big churches that are so pushing the small groups because they understand that big is impersonal and the only way to keep people coming in a big church is to get people individually involved in such things as small groups? According to him Small churches don’t need the small groups… Read More Having a small church mentality
From now on you shall be able to find on this platform of the Free Christadelphians or Brothers in Christ personal thoughts under the own heading of the author or under this name of ‘guestpeaker‘. This way the founder of this site created an opportunity to have sporadically some personal thoughts and ideas from non-christadelphians… Read More Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings
Our denomination, the same as all others in Christendom has difficulties to grow. Some ecclesiae have a status quo but there are also some who see the old people falling asleep and not many joining, making the ecclesia smaller and smaller. Perhaps many may think tit does not matter so much as long as we… Read More The Big Conversation
After being questioned about keeping the Sabbath or Sunday people ask us why we do not have our worship services in a ‘normal church with bell tower’ and why we do not have any priests leading the service. First of all followers of Christ should come together regularly. Nowhere is specified it should be in… Read More Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
In this world human race goes about as if they are all wild animals let loose in front of all niceties they want. In this system of things there are some, a few, who do feel strongly they are going on the right path, which they want to share with others, though those other people… Read More Cognizance at the doorstep or at the internet socket
The Word of God tells us that the Son of man goes as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Throughout history we have seen that many betrayed Christ Jesus and made him an other person to highlight their own thinking and to make… Read More Illuminating our minds and watching out
In the Christian communities these coming day should be very special. In some Christian churches they still take time to remember that special weekend something happened which changed everything for the world. Though most Christian communities have brought the accent to the birth of Christ and celebrate it on the heathen feast of the goddess… Read More Not bounded by labels but liberated in Christ
In Manifests for believers #3 Catholic versus Protestant we saw that what was meant as signal, a call to seek together how our church also today could bring over credibly the ‘good news’ of and over Jesus, has now grown out to a severe debate over how the Catholic Church can, may or must be… Read More Manifests for believers #5 Christian Union
In earlier articles you could already read that we find it considerably important to come together as Christian brothers and sisters. We must assemble or come together to feel the solidarity with each other in connection with Christ in our meetings and in our daily live. Those believers that come together have to show expression… Read More Reasons to come to gether
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