False Prophets, Acts Chapter 2, and our House Church

[Editor’s Note: This post was written in December of 2009.  I post it now because it set’s the stage for some of the posts that will follow.  I plan on posting the full text of the dream mentioned here in a separate post. This also will give you a glimpse into what our house church meetings look like.]

We just finished with a marathon house church meeting that was unlike anything we’ve touched as a church in a long time.  I think by the end of the meeting a couple of people had significant spiritual healing, a degree of physical healing took place in someone’s back, and a lot of people feeling a lot closer to Jesus than when we started! Praise the Lord!

It all started when someone in our church shared a dream that had some end-time implications.  The jist of the dream was that we have to address heresy as soon as possible before it springs up and becomes something more difficult to deal with.  We began to discuss and the conversation shifted to the idea of personal responsibility in our church: It’s not one person’s job to look out for heresy, it’s everyone’s job.

It was at this point Sean started talking about Acts 2 and the necessity of living the lifestyle that we find there (eating together, prayer, fellowship, devotion to the apostolic message, etc).  As we began to talk about Acts 2 and meeting Jesus in powerful ways, it became obvious that the Holy Spirit was present in a tangible way, so we began to pray for one another.  There was continual prayer, proclamation, and teaching for the next two hours! The most fun for me was to watch the whole church spontaneously love and serve each other without prodding from anyone.  It’s how church should be.

All in all, Jesus met us.  I post this to stir you up wherever you are, no matter what type of church you meet in.  Jesus desires to meet you and will rock your world.  Stay hungry to meet Him and He will find you.