Welcome!
We host a house church here in Ohio. This gathering doesn’t have a formal name. We have entirely too many denominations so this isn’t a new denomination either. It’s simply a gathering of people who want to fellowship and worship Yehovah in the way He wants to be worshiped.
Our aim is to always fellowship over food, sing as we are able, and lift one another up in prayer.
We don’t yet have a set time or place to meet. The early church met in homes. So that’s what we try to do. But we will meet on Saturdays, the Sabbath.
Statement of Beliefs
Yehovah (God)
This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Yeshua Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24
Yeshua (‘Joshua’ in English)
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:11-13
The Bible: Scripture
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. 2nd Timothy 3:16-17
Faith
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Yeshua Christ; 1 Peter 1:7
And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” James 2:18
The Gospel of the Kingdom
Yeshua came to renew the original covenants and make a way first for Israel and Judah to come back to the Father, Yehovah. The good news is that ALL those who would have faith in Yeshua as the only way to the Father and then prove that faith and belief by keeping the commandmentswould receive eternal life!
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name. John 1:12
What do we do now?
Keep the Royal Law:
And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:34-40
Keep the Commandments:
Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Yeshua. Revelation 14:12
Exodus 20:2-17
Preamble: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Keep the Rainbow Covenant for Food:
Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. Genesis 9:3-4
(Food as defined in Leviticus 11)
Continue on the Narrow Path to reach the Kingdom:
Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city. Revelation 22:14
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. Isaiah 1:16-17
He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
Find the Others!
Love your neighbor by calling them to repentance:
You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:17-18
Warn the Wicked:
Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a message from My mouth and give them warning from Me. When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand. But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life. Ezekiel 33:7-9
Rescue the weak and the needy… Psalm 82:4
Preach the Gospel of the Kingdom. Make Disciples, teaching them to observe Yeshua’s Commandments:
And Yeshua came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20