CONFERENCES, TRAININGS, AND OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

HWMR: Laboring on the All-Inclusive Christ…, Vol. 2, Week 7          May 13 – 19
Read Life-Study of John, Messages 24 & 25                                        May 13 – 19
Read The All-Inclusive Christ, Chapter 7                                              May 13 – 19
International Memorial Day Blending Conference, Bellevue, WA       May 24 – 27
July Semiannual Training, Anaheim                                                       July 1 – 6
International Thanksgiving Blending Conference, Atlanta, GA           Nov. 28 – Dec. 1

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        When we attend the home meetings, we have to be ready to speak. We all know that in the home meetings we cannot talk about the things of the world. If you speak about such things, no one would say Amen to you. But to speak spiritual things is difficult for us, because we have not learned to speak this way, and we cannot speak this way. Herein lies the key: when we come to the home meetings, everyone must learn to speak God’s word.

        When you go to the home meeting, you must go with a spirit of prayer. Whether anyone arrives before you at the meeting and regardless of how many people there are in the meeting, as soon as you arrive, you should begin to pray. We have to speak in the home meetings. But the first speaking is not to man but to God. The minute you enter the place, start praying. When all seven or eight eventually arrive, they will spontaneously pray. In this way the home meeting becomes a prayer meeting. At least for ten to fifteen minutes, everyone will enter into this kind of prayer.

        Again, the key to the home meetings is in singing the hymns. We all have to learn to sing. It would be good if after this week’s home meeting, an announcement would be made for next week’s reading. There is no need to use a whole Life-study message; we may pick out just two paragraphs. Everyone would then go home and prepare themselves in the assigned portions by pray-reading and praying. Some related hymns can be selected, and one can practice singing them first at home. When you are thus prepared, you can come to the home meeting praying, singing, and speaking. When you come to a point or a sentence in the message that touches you, you can start singing. Your singing must bring everyone into the enjoyment. Still, you must learn to go along with the weaker ones. You must also learn to relate to the lowly ones. This is a key.

            If you would take all the points I have just mentioned and put them into practice, your home meeting will surely be living. This will fulfill the leading that the Lord has given us. There will be no leader, no chairman, and no one to give orders. There will be no more forms, such as singing first, reading later, then preaching last, or anything like that. Praise the Lord that He has opened every book of the New Testament to us!  (Key Points on the Home Meetings, CWWL, 1985, vol. 4, pp.412-414)