Kingdom Come Scott Spiewak

The discussion with Steve Leifheit and John Marshall continues with discussing our settings, sharing stories and discussing how beautiful and genuine our house churches are.  Some would even call this simple church.

In this episode we discuss some of the common misnomer's of church.  Things like do we take offerings?  Who is our covering?  Do we have elders or a pastor we follow?

You'll love the chat and appreciate you sharing it with a friend. 

Acts 2:46  - "House to House"
Acts 5:42  - "House to House"
Acts 8:3 -    "House after House"
Acts 10:22  "Cornelius House"
Acts 12:12 - "Mary's House"
Acts 16:32 - "Jailer's House"
Acts 16:40 - "Lydia's House"
Acts 18:7    - "Titius Justus House"
Acts 20:20 -  "House to House"
Romans 16:5 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
1 Cor. 16:19 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
Colossians 4:15 "Nympha's House"
Philemon 1:2 - "Philemon's House"

For the past three or four years we have been walking out modeling the early church model both locally and regionally here in New England.  It has been a total complete blast.  A few of the folks I have done that with are Steve Leifheit, from York, ME as well as John Marshall from Nashua, NH.

Both Steve and John aren't strangers to the show as they've both been on in the past to discuss similar topics.  If you've not listened to those shows go back and find them...it's worth your time.

Today we catch up with Steve and John - getting an update on where things are at with them as well diving into answering some of the many questions brought up in different circles surrounding doing this lifestyle. 
Acts 2:46  - "House to House"
Acts 5:42  - "House to House"
Acts 8:3 -    "House after House"
Acts 10:22  "Cornelius House"
Acts 12:12 - "Mary's House"
Acts 16:32 - "Jailer's House"
Acts 16:40 - "Lydia's House"
Acts 18:7    - "Titius Justus House"
Acts 20:20 -  "House to House"
Romans 16:5 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
1 Cor. 16:19 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
Colossians 4:15 "Nympha's House"
Philemon 1:2 - "Philemon's House"

For 7 years now since 2016 we have been taking tents to festivals all over New England as a paid vendor asking folks if they need prayer.  This year, something unique occurred...folks were walking into the tent on their own.  We made a simple yet profound change to what we were doing.

Listen to the stories from the field of God moving across New England through everyday believers hungry to give out the gospel to anyone....mind you...this wasn't a church service or a paid conference.  

It was folks inconveniencing themselves on a Friday or Saturday sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, getting annoyed I'm sure to find out Salvation would be coming. 

We did a podcast with, Eli (his old name, ha!) & Erica almost two years ago now prior to Covid happening.  They're an amazing couple that I was introduced to us by another guest of this show Steve Leifheit.  Their house church setting was the first one I had ever been too...it changed me and helped me have courage to launch our own.

All that to say, Elisha had been battling depression as well as they were struggling as a couple with their role inside their own house church gathering.  Their perception of church leadership wasn't the healthiest like many Christians in America today.

As our path's continued to cross and intersect I noticed this past Spring, Elisha had a massive transformation.

This recording was our first ever one done outside on their porch...fitting for their story.  Listen to an amazing conversation about the power of community, perseverance and grit with a breakthru testimony! 

We connected with Daniel and Jess Penn through Jess' dad, Rick Demmon's close to a year ago now.  They showed up for our annual Barn Dinner hosted on our farm and 200 year old barn.   We gather folks from the region for a dinner and worship in the barn.

Daniel and Jess are a married couple with a son, Matthew who got touched in our barn, listen to the episode to hear how they got touched...a year has passed and they have been a part of our community since then.

Listen to their journey from a church they'd been a part of for decades to a house church setting.  They growth the Lord has brought them through is astounding, but what's even better is the way the Lord has been using them all over our town! 

For years I have been toting around my prayer in the back of our car or truck all over New England.  Since that time the Lord has given me a strategy about a year ago an this prayer tent story you are about to listen to is the first of it's kind!  Tune in to hear from someone who stepped up to do a prayer tent in her own town, Katherine Eaton.

Katherine and I met almost a year ago now when she came out to help in Pittsfield last August at the Hot Air Balloon Festival there.  We connected and since then, Katherine has sparked a heart for doing this and furthermore senses a calling and burden to do this.