Our family arrived in Richmond, Kentucky this past Saturday. We are parked at a beautiful, sprawling farm owned by Jim and Rose Harmon. Jim is one of the elders here at Bluegrass Bible Fellowship in Richmond. We will be working with this local assembly of Christians as the Lord leads. In our first day here, we were greeted and helped to set up by a local family, the Everlings. The patriarch of the Everling clan promptly greeted me with "a holy kiss" and we all shared a laugh about this greeting between brothers. Seems Jesse is reading the blog, at least!
Jim Harmon and John Frasher are the elders here in the meeting and have asked me to share this Wednesday evening for the mid week prayer and Bible study meeting. What a privilege it is to share this subject with a local church. I know many of the folks at BBF are in the Facebook group, and have heard tell of a "one anothering" game. Similar to "Apples to Apples" in style, each of the "one another" verses are printed on cards and distributed to all players. They then go on to share different circumstances and choose the most appropriate verse to apply to the situation. Sorry to the Harmons if I have butchered the description. I should get them to write out the rules for us all, maybe.
Please keep me in prayer as I prepare to share tomorrow night. I have been so blessed by the responses on the blog. I have also had many conversations with folks around the USA and a few other places about how a church should function according to the New Testament pattern. We ought to all spend time truly assessing if we are functioning as Christ would have His bride function. May we all take time this week to search God out, to honestly pray about how we could better serve our brothers and sisters in Christ, and in so doing, serve our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.
I will be writing again soon, but have much to do. Keep the believers here at Bluegrass in your prayers. These folks are earnestly laboring in prayer and in deed to proclaim the Gospel, disciple new believers, and all the other things that come with a major Gospel outreach. There is much to do in a local church, not to mention family, work, follow up...
As Nathanael Pena so often exhorts- "Go serve your King!"
Mark Cowperthwaite
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