Old Fashion Church Service
December 23rd, 2006 by Northern FarmerSaturday evening, I’m near shot, but done for the day. Less than three hours of sleep last night and Saturdays are what I call my double days, doing chores for a quick Sunday morning chore time. The weather is holding good, warm out for this time of year, days are beautiful and it was sunny this afternoon. Family will be getting together tomorrow afternoon, I might even fit in an hour or two with them all, we’ll see.
Last evening we all had us a church service I won’t soon forget. Now most of the regular readers know that we go to a little country church out in the middle of nowhere land. That little old church was packed to the gills last night, surprised me a bit, and we had us a service that’s still whirling in my mind. I wasn’t going to blog this evening, being so tired out and stuff, but will give it a quick shot.
This wasn’t a service about Christmas or anything like that. We had a guest preacher roll on in and set the folks on fire for God. Now a person gotta remember that about half the crowd was guests, so there was a great outreach to folks. But the amazing thing was the size of the crowd being so close to Christmas, when every one is supposedly so busy doing the important things like last minute shopping and all that. I know personally how it goes when inviting folks to come to a service, and I don’t think it matters much what time of the year it is, cause folks will always have some excuse to avoid church. Busy you know. Although with what I don’t know.
But they were bringing out more and more chairs cause we were full up and they kept a coming. Good problem, eh! In fact since we’ve been going there I ain’t seen nothing like it. The praise team started out and kept at it about a half an hour singing some old songs of faith. Good songs, lift a person up in a dark world. After all that then the preaching began and kept right on going. Not mushy, mushy stuff, you know, the kind just to tickle modern ears. But the old fashioned, hard hitting, Bible thumping, soul winning preaching that’s not all that fashionable these days.
The service started at seven and when we left near eleven it was still going strong. I could of just as well stayed, couldn’t sleep when we all got home anyhow. A person gets so on fire for God, who cares about sleep! All day that’s the only thing on our minds here.
But like I say, I’m bushed tonight, kinda just hanging on this evening. Get some sleep and hit them chores in the morning. Still this ain’t my Christmas blog, don’t know if I’ll write one, but hope to. But I’ll tell each and every one out there, we ain’t never had a Christmas season like this one. So on fire in God’s Word! Glory to God!
December 24th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Tom, I don’t mean to get too nosey but how about a bit more about your church fellowship. Are most of the folks from your neighborhood? Are they farmers? Could you take a bit of space and kinda give us readers a history of your little church? It sounds like it was empty, dead and buried a while back, how did the revival happen? You might have written some of the answers before, how about putting it all in one post? (That is if you don’t mind).
December 24th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Brent,
First, Merry Christmas!
I’ll think about what you wrote for a bit, cause that kinda got me between a rock and a hard place. This is all real stuff with real people and I know that a few out there do want to know more, but I hesitate to go to far with it. Plus a few church folks read this blog
But I will say that I never knew a place like that could really exist, folks in one accord such as that. We were at services today and everyone had to get home to some doings or another, but nobody wanted to leave! We even got home forty five minutes later than I told people we would! But they can wait!
But that little church is seven years old I think. The church building is over a hundred years old. It was abandoned. There’s not even a bath room in it. But there’s a double wide over to the side with that in. In the short history of the church there was a huge tragidy and the church by all rights should have folded up. But it didn’t. We came along about a year and a half ago and have been there since.
The folks are from all walks of life, young and old, farmers, business men and blue collar workers. But rural. This is hard for me to write because I could just explode out a blog if I ain’t careful!
But there’s things happening here that the world cannot explain, healings, many healings. People getting saved for real, not the new ways of just living like you always did after the supposed saving. The church is on the verge of a huge growth and outreach in the area. Folks are on fire for God!
The revival is starting because there’s nothing preached but the Word of God, nothing else. The Bible gets a big workout every service. And basically, when the Word is preached, nothing can stand in it’s way.
The hardest part for me blogging is that this subject is all I want to blog about. It all fits in with everything that’s ever been written here, and what I see is when people follow the Word, no matter what type of life they live, they start to see the evils of the industrial world. They start giving up hellavision watching in their homes, they search for real foods. They see the world’s evils! But most of all, the people start walking in love.That’s all an after effect of following God.
For being such a small church, their budget is larger than many churches that are much larger then them in the area. Cause God’s people are a giving people. A huge percentage of the budget goes to serveral different missions in other countries. A huge amount! The day to day operating expenses are kept in check with good management.There’s already enough money on hand for a new church building if it is ever needed. But for now, the old building and the doublewide work just fine. The church ain’t out to impress anybody with a new building as long as everything works out in the old. When a new one is needed, it’ll be built.
There’s many more projects in the planning stage, I won’t go into them here. But these projects will have a changing effect on the immedeate area around here, a very good one!
There, I think that was OK to write that much for now. As time goes on you’ll hear allot more about it because it’s become the most important thing in our lives here. Friends who are there when you need them, good times, children being brought up with a strong faith. A total lifestyle being built up around the local church and the Word of God! This is what I always dreamed about, prayed for, hoped for, and God came through big on it!
God Bless!