CHURCH-OUR HOME TOGETHER
INTRODUCTION
The church is a form of fellowship of people called by God to declare God's mission in the midst of this world. A simple family picture teaches the congregation how easy it is to realise God's presence in our lives.
CONTENTS
1. The homeless
It is predictable that street children have poor development, physically, mentally and spiritually. Most of them drop out of school, often become victims of violence, and often become perpetrators of criminal acts that endanger others.
This is understandable because the parenting and control tools that can make them good and successful children, which is the family, are no longer there.
Their lives move around, depending on which community they can live in and be accepted, unfortunately the street community is not the right place to grow up.
The picture above, although not exactly the same, can give us an idea of the importance of a child of God having a permanent ‘spiritual home’ to grow properly.
2. The local church is the ‘spiritual home’ for believers to grow (Psalm 68:7).
There are pastors as spiritual parents, fellow believers as spiritual brothers and sisters, and ministers as spiritual teachers and instructors. God gives the local church as a place to grow as well as a place to receive service and protection from all bad possibilities.
In the spiritual house, believers are equipped to grow, receive good spiritual food, proper education or opportunities to work, and even receive restorative discipline if they stray from the truth (Ephesians 4:11-15).
Unfortunately, nowadays there are many believers who do not want to be attached to a local church. They prefer to be sympathisers only, so they can freely choose the ‘houses’ they like every week.
If we want to be honest and humble, we should admit that believers who have loyalty to one local church to be their ‘home’ will have a very big chance to be able to grow as God wants, rather than sympathisers.
CONCLUSION
For all believers who do not have a home, FMC can be your home.