What if there was no church building?

What if there was no church building?   What would you do?

Here’s what I mean. Let’s just say that you are Tom Hanks on the show Castaway. That is you. we don’t know if the character was a believer, but you are. So you wake up on this island. An Uncharted Island at that. Nobody knows where you are. You are all alone. You don’t have a Bible. You don’t have a church to go to. You don’t have anybody that you could call. All you have are a few items from the wreckage and the volleyball you named Wilson and coconuts.

He will not leave you or forsake you.

What are you going to do?

All you have is what’s in your heart and Holy Spirit.

John 14:20 (ESV) 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Here’s what I know, there are times even today that I/we may feel alone, but I/we have a comforter because He was sent to me and to you.

John 14:15-16 (ESV) Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

I love the part of the Greek definition of “helper”   assistant of the Holy Spirit destined to take the place of Christ with the apostles (after his ascension to the Father), to lead them to a deeper knowledge of the gospel truth, and give them divine strength needed to enable them to undergo trials and persecutions on behalf of the divine

John 14.16  In my prayerful engagement with the Father, he will give you 1another 2close companion to be with you – in such an intimate way that 3my immediate presence will continue to be 4inseparably one with you in 5timeless ages to come. (The word allos is used here. The words 1allos and heteros are both usually translated as “another” in English. Yet allos means “another of the same kind” and heteros means “another of a different type”. The word, 2parakaleo, alongside, closest possible proximity of nearness; and kaleo, to identify by name, to surname. Also, kinsman; intimate companion. See Romans 12:8. “…just be there alongside someone to remind them of their true identity.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Continue, as you so eloquently do, to edify one another by cultivating the environment of your close association in your joint-genesis. [The word parakaleo is here translated as our joint-genesis] The words, ina he meth [meta] umoon eis ton aiona he  – ινα η  μεθ   υμων  εις   τον  αιωνα  – the verb 3he from eimi, I am, is in the Present Active Subjunctive form, to continue to be; 4meta, with, inseparably one with you in 5aiona, the timeless ages. )

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