Re: Before
This thread is dealing with a people whose testimony “we are home” once reverberated around the world in certain places not for a man and a ministry but for Christ and the church.
Conferences, whoever they were led by, encouraged the saints to eat and drink Christ for the building up of the church. The King James version of the Bible was used with important improvements in Greek. The churches knew the most important matter of being “an eating church to become a functioning church” and the saints wrote songs, which came from their experience of Christ as life for the church, our living.
The practice of rising early for morning watch was a major factor in many churches to bring life and content into the churches. In my experience, this was certainly true in Seattle and in Chicago, both individually and corporately with 15-25 in attendance.
With Christ as our life and content and growing, the word on “the ground of unity” in a locality made complete sense, and yes, “speed the day when all the earth will echo with pray-reading, and with hallelujahs for Christ our land, we’re churching in the churches on the churches’ local ground, we’re churching with the brothers, our family we have found, Oh yes we’re churching in the churches and we will make the earth resound with hallelujahs for Christ our land”.
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