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I have been involved with the institutional church since 1971 when I entered the University. I had been very zealous to win people for Christ following my exposure to The Campus Crusade for Christ and training in the use of their materials for evangelism. However, after some years of involvement, I began questioning whether what i had been exposed to in that movement and in the institutional church was all Jesus had to offer. The doubts were more pronounced when i compared the vibrancy of the NT relationship between brethren with the cold and calculating manners in the institutional church. The final crunch came when I discovered that the foremost and most fundamental commandment of Jesus to the early disciples was to LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS HE HAD LOVED THEM. I realised that Jesus had declared that if the world is looking for those who are His disciples, then it should use that commandment as the IDENTIFICATION OF HIS DISCIPLES, I could not find these disciples in the institutional church as they way it organised itself, such a LOVE RELATIONSHIP is never taught, never demanded and never practiced. My next question was LORD where do i find these disciples. I started sharing my convictions with friends and family and urged them to be on the lookout for such people - committed to Christ, committed to one another in love and willing to meet as a community that gives expression to the love of Jesus and one another. I stopped going to the institutional church. After a while some in my family came round to understand me and we decided to talk meet and pray about God's direction. We started talking to our neighbours and friends to meet to give a community expression to Jesus and His love for us and our love for one another. My family decided to volunteer our home for such a meeting.
Now we meet twice in a week and share as per the Pauline instruction and share in a common meal on Sundays and help with unemployment problems, inter alia.