The Lord's Room Homeschool:Abeka & MUS-Delta

Nov. 16, 2005 - Simply Friends

I was reading a 6 year old journal entry this weekend that brought back some memories. I used to meet with a church group of stay-at-home moms that got together to eat and fellowship along with some praise and worship, then prayer afterwards that was very encouraging I remembered at the time. But as we moms got busy, our membership dwindled down to hardly any at all. Then we just stopped meeting. I wondered why? Did our priorities change? Did we get fulfilled so quickly then moved onto bigger and better things? Of course, now that I homeschool and belong to several co-ops, we utilize them for fellowship, and I've made new friends. But so far they only relate to homeschooling-which makes me sad to think that if I ever decided to put my child in a private school that I would lose those friendships because we wouldn't have that to relate to any more. There are so many support groups out there now, like MOPS, WOF, and MITI that have almost replaced the need for fellowship in the church. One family in our homeschool group never had a church home the whole time they lived here! I think it's because we don't strengthen our ties with members because we get so specific in our clubs and groups with membership. But is that just as or maybe even more important than going to church? What scripture do you know that would help me to find out?

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Nov. 25, 2005 - Here's something

Not sure if this will help, but I found a webpage that addresses this.
http://www.victorious.org/whygo.htm
HTH!

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Dec. 2, 2005 - Thank you for your blog!

Hi there! I'm new to the blogging world here and just ran across your site. Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I enjoyed reading through your posts. Congratulations on being in the process of writing a novel! That's awesome! What are your plans after you finish it? Will you self-publish or send it off to a traditional publishing company? I've written and self-published a workbook for girls... I've found writing is really quite rewarding. :) I also noticed you're from TX... So am I! My husband and I live near Ft. Worth. :)

Well, just wanted to say thank you for sharing and....stay the course!

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Jan. 31, 2006 - church groups

I tend to think that church groups are more important. In the New Testament churches weren't formed around like interests or occupations, but people came together to worship Christ. Across lines of free/slave [see Philemon], rich and poor [Acts 2], race/ethnicity/cultures/ [Acts 10], male and female [Acts 1:1-14] and even languages! [Acts 2:1-6]

The homeschool group is important because of similar interests, but it can't replace the mission of the church. Women in the church should ideally be following Titus 2 and discipling the younger women. {sigh} These days it seems to be the exception rather than the rule. It's something I've been praying about myself!

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Mar. 29, 2006 - Hebrews 10:24-25

Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.

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