More from the Block

We had our first official house church tonight for the new season. (We took the summer off.) And it was a family meeting again, just like before. Man, did I ever miss it!!!!!!

God showed up, thank goodness. And during worship, you could just feel a.... Well.... GOODNESS in the room. That's all I can think to describe what we all felt. I had a kid on my lap for pretty much the entire worship part of the night and Carissa, a beautiful girl of about 11, with her skates came and sat down. Since I was running the power point program for worship, I was a bit scared of something happening to Rob's computer, etc. Well, Carissa just sat there and I held her... COULDA just SQUEEZED her!

Trebby got up to pray and kinda guide the time a bit and he said, "Can you feel God here tonight?" I asked Carissa if she knew how to feel that God was there. She said no. So, I said that you can feel God when you feel loved. She said, "Well, then God must be here because I feel loved."

Truth. And not just a feeling. Not emotion, but truth.

I am even guilty of this: emotionalizing worship and making it into an experience that happens only a few times a week if at ALL in a week. And I hear Carissa say that she feels loved.

When do I NOT feel loved? Are there times throughout the day where I don't feel loved? Actually, I don't care if I feel loved, but because I KNOW I am loved.

Do these people we see each day know what I know? Do they see and feel what I do? And how much do I take for granted the knowledge that this love I KNOW is God. He is constantly around me, never leaving me even if I don't feel Him. What does everyone else know?

I can't even imagine... The fear they know. Pain. Terror. TORTURE. They know this everyday, every MOMENT. UNTIL someone walks into the room and brings Someone with them.

Carissa felt that love because we all brought Him with us. And until other people in our churches get this, the churches will remain cold, old, and moldy. With no new life coming in. At house church, we are WARM. And family. No mold growing here!!! No room to! We're getting too full for anything else to try to move in.