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Originally Posted by Ohio
It is with sadness only that I have recently learned that Columbus Christian Assembly has basically dissolved.
The once flourishing church, close to 200 saints, the most fruitful congregation of the late 1990's and early 2000's in all of greater Ohio, has been decimated. Firstly it was LSM operatives in the aftermath of the Titus Chu quarantine who brought lawsuits against the church. Then, true to form, it was Titus Chu who cut off John Myer, forcing all the young people to choose sides. Lastly, one of the remaining elders attempted to launch the church into totally new areas of pentecostal prosperity, which many saints rejected. Some of the scattered saints have decided to rejoin the LSM group which now owns their former meeting hall.
On a more positive note, "expelled" brothers from Cincinnati and Columbus, including John Myer and Keith Miller, are presently in Uganda caring for believers there. Hopefully they can steer clear of bureaucrats like Titus Chu's boy Vern Yoder of Pittsberg, who once claimed to be the "leading co-worker in Africa." Aren't there enough people in the world, that we don't need to fight over a handful of Christians the other side of the globe?
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Forgive me ahead of time if I am speaking out of line because I have no connection to this assembly that dissolved. So I am just going by
assumption and that might not so good on my part.
I am wondering what their goal was, their "mission statement" might have been. Because if they were holding on to some of the LSM or Titus Chu's wood, hay and stubble, it was bound to dissolve.
I think it is very difficult for people who were doing things, meeting in the same way for years and years to take the good things and make it successful. Too much baggage is brought in.
The Living Word of God by His Spirit is the only way we are going to be successful in our assembly. I was reminded of
1 Corinthians 1:12-13:
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Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.” Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
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200 saints meeting together is quite a nice group of people to be used mightily by the LORD. I suspect too many people were licking their wounds and putting band aids on them.
What do I know though? It is quite possible God had other plans for the saints and He had to disperse them in order to shed the old wine skin and put on them new wine skins.
Someday..and hopefully soon...indeed we will experience the unity of the saints -in Spirit-. God's promise is He makes all things new.
Hold fast to that promise. We are almost at the finish line folks!!
Blessings all!
Carol G