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INSTEAD they met in homes and shared Christ to each others. They ate together and shared communion as apart of a normal mealtime, and shared something to edify the others. This way of meeting has different effects on the people.

First, it means that the gathered people get a bigger picture of who Christ really is, because this picture is no-longer limited to the revelation of the pastors and only a few others, it also means that people are not so easily frustrated anymore because they have a chance to talk about what they have experienced. Furthermore, it means that people will grow in a total different way.

They all have the opportunity to share an experience, of a gospel outreach for example.
We had a visit from sister maayke to attend the gospel outreach in Kampala Katwe Uganda. We met a group of young girls who are practicing prositution in Kampala, Uganda, in the Katwe base zone. In this slum community these girls are the age of 15 to 22 years old, living their own life in selfishness without any guidance and reach out from rescue team. We thank God that sister maayke was able to encourage them and share the gospel with them.

When we look at Paul, he never used his authority to dominate people or decide over them. He didn’t even decide over the fellowship that he had started himself. He guided them like a father and challenged them. He never dominated over them or decided for them like we see people doing today. His relationship with the apostles also shows that he was not placed under them in any way.

For example he was not afraid to correct the apostle Peter when he made a mistake although Peter had walked with Jesus. But he always challenged from the word which is the highest authority. As a leader, you are not to lord over peopel; we are co-workers like Paul says here: (2 Cor 1:24) ( Hebrew 13:7-8)

How is it then, brethren? when you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. (1 Corinthian 14:26)

Paul really made a great impact on believers. His saying to each of the believers was to encourage each one of them to come up with anything that could edify, encourage and build up each other. You don´t find this in many church buildings today.

In many church buildings today, the bigger the church is, the larger number of people are sitting there passively; Yes, without a chance to talk for any length of time.

This makes the service long and takes time, and some people go home after the service without having had an experience of or received any knowledge of the God of the cross. YES, yes, surly this is true. The only reason this will not work today, is that there are too many people today in the church buildings or in our meetings. In this situation we find it very hard to give chances to each one who feels led to speak, share or discuss something in the meeting.

Today at KICKSTARTUGANDA we want to take you back to and experience what we see in the BIBLE, what the first Christians experienced in small groups, and not in big church meetings. In these small groups, it will not take long for anyone to get a chance to share a word, a testimony or a song.

If we see and compare how the early Christians met and how we meet today, it is totally different.

If we look at the original text, we find in Acts chapter 20 two different words that are both translated with the some word. One of them means ‘ speech’ or to talk. The other word, however doesn’t have anything to do with ‘speaking‘ but with ‘leading a dialog or conversation’. So Paul probably talked for part of the time, and after he has spoken, they had an active dialog that lasted into the night.

All the groups were involved in asking questions that directed the conversation. This event was nothing like we see today, where one person can talk for 45 minutes without interruption, and then they give a THANK YOU AND DIMISS the meeting.

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