{"id":1940,"date":"2011-06-16T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2011-06-16T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T23:39:36","slug":"where-is-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/where-is-your-church\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE IS YOUR CHURCH?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 18:19-20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">\u201cAgain, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in My name, there am I with them.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>My particular ministry has often taken me outside the walls of the traditional church setting. Many funerals, weddings and other ceremonies have thrust me into a world not quite a part of normal church structure.<\/p>\n<p>Many times I have had people come up to me following a ceremony and ask where my church is located. Time after time individuals have said they would like to start attending. The strange thing is that they never appear. If everyone came to our services that promised to be there, we would have to rent an auditorium to hold them all.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I would be astute enough to challenge these people. It has come to me that if I am speaking to true born again believers, according to today\u2019s Scripture, anywhere believers happen to congregate together is the <em>church<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years we have seen an explosion of food trucks on the streets of our cities. It is no longer necessary to go to a caf\u00e9, dining room or diner to get a meal. We can locate a food truck on the street that will supply a fantastic meal that is ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>I am not suggesting that we set up mobile churches that dispense spiritual takeout food. What I am saying is that the church is God\u2019s children meeting and sharing the blessings of the Lord with one another, to be an encouragement to strengthen one another. I challenge you to begin to look at the <em>church <\/em>in a new and exciting light.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong> (360) 570-0074<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>P.S. &#8211; You can help! <\/strong><\/span>Please consider trying to get one other person to subscribe to the Daily-E-Votional. This worldwide ministry asks for no funds and is sent to glorify our precious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 18:19-20 \u201cAgain, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in My name, there am I with them.\u201d My particular ministry has often taken me outside the walls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}