Needed, A New Way to Meet #4: How Should Christians Meet? A New Experience of Church

We’re getting ready for this. Once or twice a week, you are going to be early in the morning, getting alone with someone. You’ve got a bunch of babies, and so you’re meeting at 10 a.m. You get up at 4 o’clock, brother, on Saturday morning or Sunday morning or late in the evening with some other brother who also has to get up at 3 or 4 a.m. You’re getting together.

Now, the groundswell is growing. The sisters are getting songs ready. They’re getting together and singing songs so they know which songs will be sung. They will even use one of the meetings to say, ” We’ve got these four or five songs. Do you know them?” We’ll practice them if necessary. When we hear a song announced, we’re going to sing that thing with everything we’ve got. It’s not going to be this long, dead silence stuff that comes.

Now, as the time approaches, I don’t know if I’ll do this or not, but here’s a possibility. The meeting is going to be…when are we going to have this meeting?

Audience: Sunday morning at 11 a.m. (lots of laughter)

When are we going to have this meeting? Friday night? Let’s have it Saturday night, just in case a lot of people have to work really hard on Friday. We’re going to have it Saturday night.

Okay, here’s what we’re going to do. Now, we’ve had four weeks to run at this thing. It’s the only thing we’re thinking about, talking about, praying about, practicing, everything. On Monday morning at 6 a.m., you will rise to be with the Lord alone. On Tuesday morning, you’re going to meet with one other person. We’ll work this out in our meetings as we prepare. You’ll have this written down. You’ll know where you’re going to go.

On Wednesday morning at 6 a.m., two groups will join, making four groups. Thursday morning at 6 a.m., two more groups will join. You’re going to be in a group with eight people. Friday morning, two more groups will join. How many of you will there be? Sixteen of you. Saturday morning, there will be 32 of you, and that may be the total size of the church, but if it’s 100, then there will be three groups. They’re all going to be coming to the Lord together with the same thing. By Saturday night, the wineskin’s going to almost break. It’s going to be almost ready to break.

Then, here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to enter his court with praises. What you’re going to do is: it’s 7 p.m. Saturday night, and you’re all going to gather in the front yard. You’re not coming into the meeting. You’re going to stand in the front yard, and all of you are there. Let’s say there are 32. And then somebody’s going to open the door, and you’re going to march in. When you get to the door, if you please, when you get to the gate, you’re the one who goes through that threshold, and you’re going to have to enter His courts with praise. You alone, standing there under that door, you’re going to have to say some kind of praise to the Lord Jesus Christ, just as open and as powerful and as released as you possibly can. Did you follow that?

You’re going to come into the meeting together, and you’re going to announce that song, and we’re going to sing it, or you’re going to sing it; I’m going to be at home like an expectant father. That’s where I’ll be, wringing my hands, wondering what’s going on. You’re going to announce the song. You’re going to stand. I don’t know what you’re going to do. There’ll be a lot of things you’re going to do, but for the next hour or two or three, you’re going to give it everything you’ve got.

Two weeks ago, I was in Ottawa, Canada. I didn’t do any of these things. All I did was… when the Ottawa conference ended on Sunday at noon, I said, Sunday night, get in the lounge, and I said that no brothers can share until ten sisters did. Who was the sister who was the whistleblower? She actually blew the whistle on brothers several times. The very first person who started to share was a brother, and she stopped him cold. As much as I had warned him that week, he was offended. Well, he should have been offended. He was totally out of order.

He sat down, waited, and he got over it. And the sisters began to share. When Sister No. 10 finished, some of the brothers asked if they could share. Can I share? Can I share? When Sister No. 10 finished, the brothers began to share, and the sisters began to share. That meeting started at 7 p.m. It broke up at midnight, and this is what one sister said to me. When we broke up, we were in tears. We hugged one another and bonded in eternal friendship, forever and forever with one another.

One brother told me it was like I had known all those people my whole life, and that we were all in a church together. We had been together for years. There were no barriers, and we were going to be together for the rest of our lives. Praise the Lord. It was a gully washer. That’s what it was. It was a gully washer. Most of the saints in that room had never functioned in their lives. There was no human leader; the closest was a sister with a whistle…and she literally had a whistle. And she did use it. Isn’t this incredible? Isn’t that simple?