The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.

Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.

In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.

Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.

At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.

In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.

But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.

For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and  also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.

For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.

One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.

We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.

When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.

At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!

 

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    Who are the Christadelphians

    A Christadelphian news-site. = Christadelphian Nieuwssite.

    Who has believed

    Today we may see a dark world, not many people having interest in spiritual and religious matters.

    We may be pleased that there can be found several people who go around preaching. Though on the streets of Belgium we see less Jehovah Witnesses than some years ago. Their presence in public has been greatly reduced. They, and we, were and are preachers of the Good News who continuously try to show people that Jesus is the way to God. Confronted with those to whom we talk and write, we can only notice to our regret that there are not many who want to believe our message.

    We are aware that it is God Who is calling people to come to Him. But we wonder how many people do want to hear His Voice. To whom has the arm of the Most High God of gods been revealed?

    We go many places and have several publications on the Worldwide Web as well as in paperwork or in printed matter. Everywhere we talk about the special one, a son of man who grew up before God like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground.
    We try to convince people that that sent one from God had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, even nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. But who wants to believe in such figure and hear our message?

    “1  Who hath believed {1 } our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? {1)

    Or that which we have heard }

    2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; {1 } and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. {1) Or that we should look upon him; nor beauty etc }

    3 He was despised, and {1 } rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with {2 } grief: and {3 } as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. {1) Or forsaken 2) Heb sickness 3) Or he hid as it were his face from us }

    4  Surely he hath borne our {1 } griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. {1) Heb sicknesses }5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isa 53:1-5 ASV)

    We still live in days that people reject that man who was been spoken off so much. We only can see that Truth has fallen on hard times. Not many do have ears to the Biblical truth, the same as we find today lots of people preferring to present themselves differently than they are in real life; They also prefer following so called ‘friends’ on social media who love to spread false or fake news.

    Problem today is also that more and more people come cross with those who believe in God, being them Jews, Christians or Muslims. Everywhere we can find such satans or adversaries of God who bombard those lovers of God with lies every day. The danger is that the adversaries of God become more tricky and manage to present carefully crafted lies. Because they are in the majority its easier for them to deceive those who are pushed in the corner.

    Truth has stumbled in the streets for many centuries. Always it has been very difficult for honesty and clear truth to enter. Already in the prophet Isaiah his time truth was nowhere to be found. In his time those who tried to live according to God’s Will and whoever shunned evil became a prey.

    “14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.” (Isa 59:14-15 ASV)

    We may find lots of people who have made Jesus into their god, not seeing that their three gods are than so different from each other that those trinitarians should really be called polytheists.

    We try to convince them that God is an All-knowing Being, whilst Jesus was some one who had to learn everything and did not know important matters, like when the end-times would come, or who would be seated next to him in his kingdom and in the Kingdom of his heavenly Father. We try to convince them that Jesus is the way to God, and that they should prepare themselves for the unknown day that he would return as a thief in the night (Revelation 16:15); but to no avail.

    “ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but {1 } by me. {1) Or through } (Joh 14:6 ASV)

    We are convinced more people should come to know that it is only possible to come to God by following His son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah. but how long shall it take before people shall come to see and understand the difference between

    “the son of God” and “god the son”?

    How long shall it take for the world before it shall come to accept that Jesus is that prophet spoken about in the many books from the Hebrew Bible?

    How long shall people despise what the son of man really did, by not wanting to see how he put his own will aside to do the Will of his heavenly Father? How long is the world to reject that man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief?

    Lots of people turned their backs on him that was willing to do the Will of God, instead of his own will.

    “ saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” (Lu 22:42 ASV)

    Clearly we can find in the Scriptures that Jesus says

    “not my will”

    indicating it is not what Jesus wants but Jesus giving himself to the Will of his heavenly Father, Who he considers also his God, Whose Will we should also do and Whose Will should be done on earth as it is in heaven.

    “ Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.” (Mt 6:10 ASV)

    As lovers of God we can only hope and look forward to that time that the Will of God shall come to be fulfilled.

    In accepting Jesus as God His son, we by faith in him that was sent by God, we are allowed to live by hope, having received the example of a real man standing out off the dead, which we would not have had when Jesus would be God (because then there still would be no proof at all that man can come out of death).

    We should step away form the distorted data and all those human doctrines. for many that would not be so easy,because they have been for years brought up with those false teachings. for them a new world has to go open. One which they shall find be liberating, because being caught up by all those human teachings which are not really there in the bible, they shall find lots of freedom.

    Many who are against those who preach the Good News do forget that they are the ones who try to communicate the truth in love. Out of love for the other, they go around warning for what might come sooner, or later, than we think.

    As bringers of the Biblical words we want to promote informed and mature reflection. You do not have to take our words for the truth. You may question and doubt us. What we ask is

    try to take the words in the bible for what they stand, for what there is really written

    Do not think “God” when there stands “Jesus”. Do not think “God the son” when there is written “the son of God”.

    We only ask you to come to read what there is really written, so that your eyes may come to see what is really written in the Bible. Do not think the Bilbie is to difficult to understand yourself. Believe in it. Believe that God has given His Word to everybody, so that every human being shall be able to hear the Words of God and come to understand them.

    The communication of that Book of books shall not fall short. In it you may find the best guide to your life.

    the only thing that we want is:

    That you keep your eyes focused on the Biblical Truth

    and that you believe in the sent one from God who declared his heavenly Father greater than himself. It is that son of man who now has gone back to his heavenly Father, Who declared Jesus to be His only begotten beloved son.

    “ Ye heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.” (Joh 14:28 ASV)

    “21  Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. 23 And Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,” (Lu 3:21-23 ASV)

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    When you believe Jesus is God, do you think he died?

    When you believe Jesus is God: who do you think is the mediator? #1 Son of man

    When you believe Jesus is God: who do you think is the mediator? #2 Firstborn from the dead our advocate

    The son of man given authority by God

    Authority given to him To give eternal life

    List of some of the important beliefs of the early Christians

    Memorizing wonderfully 42 Equality with God & doing nothing of himself

    Memorizing wonderfully 70: Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God

    Not my will, but thine be done

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  • Written to recognise the Promised One
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    The Big Conversation – Christadelphians in the United Kingdom

    In the United Kingdom people may find several villages and towns where there reside Christadelphians,  a body of Christians who try to base their beliefs and practices wholly on the Bible, which they regard as God’s word. They try therefore to rid themselves of the various ideas and rituals which have attached themselves to Christendom over the last 2,000 years and to return to the beliefs and practices of the first century apostles.

    Being a group of people who want to follow the Nazarene Jew Jeshua, who did not want to do his own will, but always did the Will of his heavenly Father, they as the man born in Bethlehem, are living in this world but not wanting to be of this world following human traditions and human dogmas. That does not make them so popular, because people may look strange at those people who do not want to celebrate Halloween and other pagan festivities.

    Because the Christadelphians are a community without the trappings of elaborate buildings, priests or icons, their institutions and fellowship-rooms not be seen straight away. The outer sights are not important for the Christadelphians who prefer to give honour to God and show a deep respect for God’s word and love to have a strong sense of family and fellowship.

    On the above map you can see some of the more than 300 ecclesiae in Great Britain and Ireland. They were taken under the loop by brother Jon Downes who on the 10th of October asked

    What is happening?

    For him the present size & growth or non-growth of UK ecclesiae show there isn’t a, ‘No Change’ option

    It’s not that we aren’t trying!

    he said to about 350 Christadelphians present at Dudley college.

    In this world of figures, comparisons and evaluations it is all about numbers in graphics which have to show an up-going trend and reach high peaks. this for sure can not be said about our very small community. Lots of people may think when it is not big it has no value and can not be good. But people should look at the intrinsic value and to see what a group or church is believing, following up, and how they keep to what they preach. It is true that minorities do not exert influence, and that they should have to contend on the culture or the systems around it.

    Christadelphians do not fall in the temptation to pretend to be a majority, even if one is not. They do know they are just a little grain of sand in our religious world. But that does not mean that many more little grains can be put together with water and with clay form a nice vase. Though sometimes it can look like we are coming to sit more in an urn. Especially in Belgium we are in distress and can do with some support form abroad. Though looking at other countries can show us also how important it is to make more work of the announcing or making known of our society.

    All over the world people may not forget that the church of Jesus Christ is never a majority, in any fallen culture, even if we happen to outnumber every[one] else around us. They should come to see that the real church of God is the church of Christ were people are willing to follow Jesus his words, his teachings, but also his manners and his aspirations. It is a place where people are willing to share the agapè love of Christ, who was even willing to give his life for others, even for those who turned against him. Would we do that?

    Where Christian churches have held fast to the truth that the Holy Scriptures have been given by God as an authoritative and infallible rule of faith and practice, they have never wandered very seriously out of the right way. But when, on the other hand, reason has been exalted above revelation, and made the the exponent of revelation, all kinds of errors and mischiefs have been the result, and got many sorts of denominations which have lots of rituals people may like very much but which are not according to God’s Law. And that part is the most important in our building community. We should all try to live according God’s Law and love His Words more than the words of man.

    Unfortunately, lots of Christians do not closely follow the Bible today and prefer to join churches in which they can keep up their human traditions. They have changed things to how they want them to be.
    Since the times of Jesus, there have been small groups of people who believed what the Bible said. Many of these people were cruelly treated in times past as a result of their beliefs. Such believers united in the North of America when in 1864 broke out the Civil War. Dr. Thomas thought up the word “Christadelphian“, a name combining the name “Christ” with the Greek word “adelphi” meaning “brother”. So the name “Christadelphian” means “brothers and sisters in Christ“.

    Christadelphians are grateful to John Thomas for his efforts in searching out the message of the Bible. John Thomas was not a prophet or someone special. He read the Bible, just as we try to do. Christadelphians follow Jesus Christ, not John Thomas. Not following just one man or just one human organisation gives that we may have different ideas about certain things, but that doe snot mean we would not have union with each other, though we must agree that there are certain Christadelphian groups who shamefully do not want to have contact with other Christadelphians.  According to the Belgian Free Christadelphians this is also part of the reasons why it is so difficult to show the world a bigger group of religious people under one name: Christadelphians.

    Being joined together by our common faith in the Bible, and the way we live, we all should try to meet each other and have contact with each other as loving siblings. All being brothers and sisters in Christ. Though each “ecclesia” has to look after its own affairs, and choose members who determine arrangements and organise activities on behalf of their members they should feel that unity with Christ with other Christadelphians world wide and show the outside world that Jesus Christ is their head of each ecclesia.

    Living in this world we do agree that “It’s not about the numbers” … …but the “numbers tell a story”. And those numbers in west Europe may be alarming. Therefore there was the call to come thereto in the UK to discuss that matter of dwindling ciphers.

    Like any other western capitalist country in the UK Bible ownership and Bible knowledge has slumped, some english people also do find it a form of indoctrination when parents in their home pray and talk about God in front of their children of that child.

    Jon Downes presented the anxious members a snapshot of our society in the UK.

    and showed those present how a typical ecclesia looks like.

    When we look at the adult baptisms in our community from related people (3,5) and from non related
    (1.0) plus counting the (0.5) refellowshipping members, comparing them with the average of 10 people falling asleep and 2 people leaving the fellowship, we might say that such numbers bring the graphic line downwards.

    What might happen to the Christadelphian community in the United Kingdom when they do not something to change the coarse.

    happened.

    Therefore lets look at the United Kingdom as an example.

    what might this give to that community, where we find, like everywhere in the world members becoming older and dying, whilst the world is getting less interested in God and commandment.

    In case we can bring the Gospel of the Good News to many more ears, we should be able by a co-effort of preaching to increase the interest in God again and get again some people interested in joining a community of lovers of Christ and lovers of God.

    We must see that

    The lost are our hope

    and that there is good reason to try to reach the lost. We as brothers and sisters in Christ should love the people in the world so much that we will be offering some of our spare time for preaching work.

    We are the hope of the lost

    Luckily it is not all ad  or sad news.

    Good News!

    tells brother Downes is that we can look at

    • 120 baptisms a year (4 average sized ecclesias)
    • In the last 40 years, 39 new ecclesias. (Although 96 have closed & some were renamed).
    • In the last 15 years,1/4 of all baptisms from non Christadelphian backgrounds were by just 16 ecclesias. (Although 1/3 didn’t baptise any)
    • While many ecclesias are shrinking many are growing.
    • Numbers in Africa are growing!
    • Bible Learning Centres & Learning English are having a big impact

    Instead of going for Plan A is it not better that we go for Plan B?

    Plan A discussed at the Big Conversation of 2015 October 10 at Dudley college, UK
    • Current UK Christadelphian population of 8-8500 is based on 223 2015 ALS Diary returns on households & 178 2015 CCH survey returns. 10 Ecclesias had neither return and were estimated on previous diary returns.
    • 1985 to 2015 data based on records kept from the back of the Christadelphian, clearly subject to some error, gaps and misreporting. The last 12 months of Magazine entries were analysed separately and yielded results consistent with the records obtained.
    • Net loss of 120 per annum and the 10, 5, 1 ratio derived from average of last 10 years data. Approx 240 out and 120 in. These do not include brothers and sisters movement in and out of the UK.
    • Forecast from 2015 based on a linear continuation which could easily be a) more dramatic because of rapid closure of small ecclesias, ageing population, reduced home pool to draw from, fewer people to witness, higher rates of leaving the community b) less dramatic as in a smaller community there are fewer people falling asleep each year.
    How to cope with small churches getting growing ecclesiae

    One of the deceases of this time is that too many people want to enjoy their own little cocoon and not getting out of their comfort zone to share life with the spiritually needy. Those who call themselves Christian may not forget that this means to be a follower of Jesus Christ and demands also doing what he required from his followers. Jesus asked us to go out in the world to proclaim the Kingdom of God. We are to make every effort to bring hope and healing in Jesus name to those in need.

    We are to see that the tangible goodness of God flows into every nook and cranny of our communities – especially in those places where darkness seems to prevail. {Walking With Intentionality}

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    The Ecclesia in the churchsystem

    Reasons to come together

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    The Big Conversation follow up

    Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church

    Engaging the culture without losing the gospel

    Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism

    Feeling-good, search for happiness and the church

    Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation

    Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building

    Belgian Christadelphians 2013 & 2014 in review

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  • People are turning their back on Christianity
  • Looking on what is going on and not being of it
  • London an exaggerated microcosm of the UK at large
  • Parents forbidden to pray in front of their children or to take them to church
  • State and attitude of certain people to blame for radicalisation
  • More Muslim children than Christian children growing up in our cities
  • Will Islam conquer Europe
  • Christianity to be enshrined
  • Halloween custom of the nations
  • Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
  • A call easy to understand
  • Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
  • Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
  • The meek one riding on an ass
  • Do not be afraid to learn or to speak
  • Reasons to come together
  • Congregate, to gather, to meet
  • Fellowship
  • Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
  • The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
  • Holiness and expression of worship coming from inside
  • To find ways of Godly understanding
  • Perishable non theologians daring to go out to preach
  • Who are the honest ones?
  • Certain people trying to stem freedom of speech
  • Priority to form a loving brotherhood
  • Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
  • Religious Freedom in a Multicultural World
  • Some christians do have problems with the Christian connection with Jews
  • American atheists most religiously literate Americans
  • Determine the drive
  • Try driving forward instead of backwards
  • Campbell, Thomas and Bijbelvorsers
  • Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
  • Wanting to know more about basic teachings of Christadelphianism
  • Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
  • Christadelphian people
  • Who are Christadelphians
  • What are Brothers in Christ
  • Two new encyclopaedic articles
  • Christadelphians today
  • Keeping an ecclesia in modern times
  • Small churches of the few Christadelphians
  • Christianity to be enshrined
  • Christianity is a love affair
  • Intentions of an Ecclesia
  • Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
  • Love for each other attracting others
  • What makes a consecrated Christian
  • A call easy to understand
  • If you have integrity
  • Work with joy and pray with love
  • To know Christ is filling life with meaning
  • The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen
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  • Lord’s Day 10: God is in Control
  • Just Try a Few Things
  • “When Faith Goes, All Good Things Go”
  • Growing Deep
  • All the Wrong Reasons
  • Little Church
  • Leading Change
  • Small Groups & Grow A Small Church by Multiplying Its Small Groups
  • Living well
  • Blessed by His Hand
  • Encouragement for the Small
  • How Did You Get Here?
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  • What Do You Do Well?
  • Recognize the Facts
  • What are your top two struggles?
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  • On the road to sainthood and not silent about it
  • Incognito Zone: Where the Church Is Booming
  • House Church Reaches Out to Atheists, Agnostics in California
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