What If Your Worship Is Pushing You AWAY From God?

When everything you thought was Christian leaves you feeling empty, you might be looking for life in the wrong place. What if the Christian life was never meant for you as an individual, but for a spiritual community? In this profound message, Gene Edwards confronts the spiritual individualism that has weakened the faith for centuries, emphasizing that the spiritual experience is “plural not singular”. He challenges the modern fixation on prayer, Bible study, or religious gimmicks, arguing that the spiritual community of the believer—or the eklesia—is an organic, biologically innate drive within us. True fellowship and maturity are not built on doctrine, movements, or external forms, but on a “personal encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ”, where proximity to Christ brings believers closer to one another, making Him the “hub” and the only “engine” of authentic Christian life. Gene Edwards invites us to lay down our personal agendas and discover the profound, fragile, and eternal community that is the very “heartbeat” of God’s passion. Christian Community – DCLC June 1988 Grand Prairie TX Message #1