Quite some time back the church we attended decided members should offer to host a family based worship, thus Fireside fellowships were born

Hosting these meeting is purely voluntary and in the past we have hosted several, however for assorted reasons which I won’t go into we had not offered to do any for quite a long time

Until last Tuesday night when we opened our home once again as hosts, as we have a smallish living room we could only offer to seat six other church members

Although only three members turned up, there was another who was coming had difficulty finding our home, so he went back to his house
As to the actual fellowship, we as hosts we were asked to pick a praise song we wanted sung as part of the meeting

My wife chose “Bind us together” which is her favourite, which we had all had to sing from memory as it wasn’t included in the edited booklet brought to our house

I chose “I surrend all” which recently found comfort in the words as well as release from my self-indulgence habit that had persisted for too many years

I had previously been listening to it being sung on a YouTube video, and the words tugged at my heart and pricked my conscious so strongly that night when I prayed and surrened all to Jesus even my own free will