September 2011 It’s been seven months since I started this experiment and now I have kicked up to a new level. I don’t know why I have increased my effort, it is one of the changes that has happened since I started my course. My church attendance has increased from every fortnight to every week. I have started again giving offerings on a regular basis. My business has increased. My relationships inside the family were always very good. My relationships outside my own family have been tested and shaken; I think there is more sincerity and truth. I would like to give you an overview of my church life. I got saved when I was 23 years old in Melbourne and went to a church called Life Ministry Centre, I stayed there for about three years in which time I spent two years full-time in their bible college. I met my wife Lorna at that college. We got married and left Melbourne for a small town called Katherine in the Northern Territory. In Katherine we went to the Anglican Church for 12 months, after this we returned to my home town Adelaide and joined the Assemblies of God Church in the suburb of O’Halloran Hill. We stayed at this church for about ten years, we served in that church in royal rangers, as home group leaders, on the board of elders and as pastors, none of these positions were full-time. The local church sent us out to plant a church in Mildura, Victoria. We stayed in Mildura for about three years, but the church plant did not work and we left for Brisbane in Queensland. My family and I have spent most of the last fifteen years at a church called Northside Christian Family church which is an Assemblies of God Church. The Assemblies of God have changed their name to Australian Christian Churches and the church itself has changed its name to Nexus church. These fifteen years at Nexus Church have been very good for my family. My daughter Jessica met and married her husband there, my wife Lorna has found great expression in the ladies ministry, in worship and also in the School of the Supernatural. Which is a course on signs and wonders and praying for the sick. My son Samuel has found expression through the church worship and as a drummer and now as a guitarist. And what a contrast, I have done absolutely nothing for fifteen years and have not been moved or motivated internally or externally, by myself or by God. A few weeks ago I was sitting in church when it was announced that they were not going to have an early morning service through summer. So when I got home that morning I looked up the service times of the churches in our area and found a church that had an 8.00am Sunday service. I asked my wife if she would mind if I visited a different church next Sunday and she said she didn’t mind! For the last five weeks I have been going to a church called C3 church in Bridgeman Downs. The strangest thing has happened, for the first time in fifteen years I have felt God moving on me as I have been sitting in the church service. Don’t get me wrong, I have felt God in my life, but not recently in my church life and now after fifteen years of lying dormant I am feeling God move on me as I sit in church. My wife finds it interesting; some of my friends are slightly alarmed that I am going to a different church than my family. I just tell them that I am visiting and where my family is, is where my home church is. I have also told the people that I have met at this church what my situation is and so far everyone has found this to be acceptable.
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 03:03:44 +0000
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