[JorgeP]

Brothers let me add a response that I felt like writing in another post because it is quite connected to what I have felt like writing here.

Greetings brethren,

because this matter of the church in the house is of great importance to me, let me share my experience in the ekklesia. You can also check in the post I did sharing my story and experience and you will see that much of it, I would say almost all of it was within the wonderful environment of the ekklesia. As a new convert I had the blessing of going into house to house church meetings, so I can share from the point of view of a new convert until today.

First of all I can testify before the Lord that the house church meetings are the best thing I have been able to experience corporately. It is simply wonderful. First of all because the Bible clearly reveals it in 1 Cor. 16:19; Rom. 16:5; Philemon. 2; Col. 4:15 that the brethren met as the house church. The freedom we have as believers to meet by the houses is wonderful. We can all attend, we can all participate, we can all speak, we can all function, we can all serve. The house meetings are so profitable, practical, useful and edifying that in a short time the meeting that began in mid-2010 in Cabudare, Venezuela, (I started attending in late 2012), reached a point where we were actively meeting several times a week and then to a spectacular climate where we met almost every day.

The Word, the Spirit, the person of Christ as the center of the meeting, the freedom to praise according to the revelation we have of Him according to His Word, the prayers, the spiritual songs, the practical coordination, the brotherly love, the practical service to one another, the relationships in practical and human life. Simply wonderful. Blessed be the Lord Jesus Christ who has given us a way to really live in harmony as brothers. Certainly harmony is produced by Christ within us because He is the harmonious one, plus the house meetings produce and give the freedom to be able to live Christ corporately together with His humanity among the brethren.

The physical sphere is important and crucial for the Lord. It is so important that one day God became man, with a physical body. He lived a human life, congregating in the houses. The blessed almighty and eternal God became man, with a physical body and congregated in the houses (The house of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, the house of Matthew, the house of Sachaeus, the house of Simon, and others) He also visited people in the houses to save them, heal them, preach to them, minister to them, deliver them. He also sent His disciple two by two and from house to house to announce the kingdom of God. He went through death and resurrection and resurrected, He still has a physical body and we see this clearly at the end of John's gospel.

Another aspect that I could enjoy in the house meetings is the enjoyment that we can have of the brethren in their humanity. Because we are men with humanity and a physical body, we have the need to meet physically. I really do not change this for a virtual online life, because I am not a robot or a machine, I need to congregate physically with my brothers. I really miss the house meetings. I hope that the Lord will give me here soon a group of brothers willing to practice the ekklesia by the houses and re-experience the wonderful corporate life that the Lord presents in His Word and experience in practice the brotherly love, the fellowship of eternal life among the brothers and live what the Lord has prepared for us for eternity, to live together with Him in harmony forever.