Blessed Bread

When the religious Christianity was busy with their "Good-Friday-Easter" weekend, being a general holiday, as a church we decided to feast on the blessed bread of the word of God by coming together for prayer and pursuing the truth. When the proposal was made, it was responded with grim and doubt: Would the saints come the whole day just for pursuing the truth? 

Yes, indeed. The appetite of the saints have changed significantly. Though we are all from Christianity background, through the course of our church life, our spiritual taste buds have been much sharpened, and our appetite for the pure word of God have grown much more than ever. We don't need any outward attraction to bring the saints together, nor do we need to worry about the ministering of the word at any length; the saints are hungry for the blessed bread of the word of God. Just the word of God, with prayer, and the Spirit is more than sufficient to shepherd the saints and blend them together. Gone are the days of running after emotional praise and worship, charismatic preacher, signs and wonders, and the likes. Blessed bread meets them all!

As we gathered that weekend, we delved into the depth of the word on the recovery of the truth concerning God, Christ, the Spirit, the eternal life, the believers, the church, the oneness of the church, and the ground of oneness, it took us three days and still not sufficient enough. We decided to pursue every Lord's day after the Lord's table meeting, prophesying meeting, and the lovefeast.

My greatest joy was in pursuing the truth with the saints together. Everyone participating in asking questions and others answering in mutuality. Some of the critical questions asked were very good for my exercise to use the word and answering in spirit. I got helped and the saints too. Praise the Lord!

This kind of meeting was very helpful; it went beyond a formal meeting which was uni-directional in nature, but this was bi-directional in mutuality where the actual need of the saints could be addressed. They would not have dared to asked question freely in big meetings, even if they did, it could not have been addressed better. Now I am absolutely convinced through experience that what the saints really need is the "Blessed Bread" of the word of God; word of God ministered in spirit and in prayer.

To this extend, I have told the brothers and sisters that the Lord has indeed blessed the saints in the church in Gurgaon with His blessed bread as evident from their hunger for the word, backed up by their lives and testimonies.

Lord, bless us with Your blessed bread always for the blending and building up of Your Body.