I've been reading Radical by David Platt and joined this read-along. So I'm reviewing Ch 1 and couldn't keep it to myself, so we read aloud this morning. We read about house churches and
how people must sneak and risk danger to gather together with their bibles to learn and praise together. They come in the dark, at secret locations, sneaking their whole families in, risking their lives, their property, their jobs and their loved ones.
They got dressed in suitable, secret-y dark clothes and created a shady tent for their church-spot. This is what my worshippers thought:
Ruby (5): I loved it. About you guys coming, because I usually only have 1 person at my church, but this time I had 4 people. I will want you to come back at the same time tomorrow, I will be there. Maybe. The baby should not come next time, maybe she could be sleeping since we will have our secret church so late in the night.Isaac (7): I was the driver. My job was to drive the people who didn't know the way and one person who did know the way.
Peter(8): Mom was the guest and Isaac had to drive her to my secret hiding place. I hopped in the car and after we got a little ways from our meeting place, me and mom hopped out and crawled to our secret place in the tent. When we got there, Ruby and Isaac had to have a secret code to get in.
Ruby pretended she was basket-weaving before she came in, and when she came in she pretended she was going to bed like usual every day. The code word was Mark and both Isaac and Ruby had to say it before they came in. Isaac tried to scare us, but it didn't work. I was the security person. Hope you enjoy what I said.
Mom: It was hot in our church. And dark.
We read the beginning of the book of Mark with a flashlight. Ruby worked hard to "write" every word that I read - in case we didn't have my bible next time (I was the visiting bible-teacher). Anna climbed all over us and didn't do well with being quiet. We fear that someone outside may have heard us! Ruby led the singing: "hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest" is what she chose. Because if we don't praise Him, the rocks will cry out. So we praised Him.
This cute picture of Anna is her wondering why we are driving a pretend car down the hall and why she isn't.
