Every Wednesday night, in a relatively small home in Frisco, TX, about 60 men squeeze into a family room and kitchen space to love God and love one another.
Woody's house functions as a micro church in a way that is best seen to believe. Men of all ages, shapes, sizes, skin tones, languages, denominational background, disabilities, and giftings join together to lift up each other, and lift up the name of Jesus.
Every week new men show up, both committed Christ followers and guys who were told about it while getting gas at the local convenience store a few hours earlier.
And those who go into Woody's house come out transformed. Because in Woody's house, you encounter God. You see the body of Christ and become the body of Christ.
The order of service is service. Make your crude masking tape name tag. Open your heart to that complete stranger that is standing in your personal space in the crowded room. Join the choir of untrained voices that sing all praise and glory to the King. Get embraced by the Spirit as random dudes with random problems, praises, and prayer share their hearts, heartbreaks, and heart for Jesus.
Marvel as first time, heard about it that day, divinely called guys hand their lives over to Christ less than 30 minutes after walking in the door of Woody's house.
Will you allow your house with your friends and neighbors to become Woody's house? Where the love of God flows in the Spirit as powerfully as the One who raises the dead?
Say yes, yes, and amen. Receive the call of God upon your life to bring life. Stop going to church and be a church. This is simple, doable, and really works, and has worked for almost 2000 years. Change the world by changing the hearts of those closest to you, so that God is glorified to all.
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