Adventistische Schriften über: "How does the community life of Seventh-day Adventists look after the closure of their places of worship?"

In the early history of the Advent movement, community life after being excluded from traditional churches or losing meeting spaces became necessarily more flexible and personal. Believers gathered primarily in private homes, held prayer and testimony conferences there, and nurtured a deep fraternal fellowship. As there were often no permanent preachers or own buildings, cohesion was strengthened by itinerant preachers as well as the lively exchange of magazines and letters. ### Meetings in private homes due to lack of own places of worship >

»When they began their work, there were no meeting houses, and the believers were too few to finance a tent. Consequently, the gatherings were held largely in the believers' homes. The main task of the day was to locate the Advent believers.«

1 - Everett Newfon Dick, Founders of the Message (FOME 212.1)

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### Excerpt from the churches and founding of own meetings >

»The other church members then began to view the Advent gatherings as separate from the congregation... Soon the brothers held their meetings in private homes... This eventually led to a separation from that body. He adds: We have here a group of brothers and sisters who are bound by that love which death cannot separate.«

2 - Signs of the Times [J.V. Himes], The Advent Herald, and Signs of the Times Reporter [Himes], vol. 2 (HST March 13, 1844, page 44.47)

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### Spiritual fellowship through prayer and conference hours >

»We held our prayer and conference meetings once, and sometimes twice a week, and although we had to experience the end of '43, some of us can still meet to encourage one another and pray for each other; the Lord is with us; we have almost no sermons of the blessed truth, but... when our brothers visit us, our hungry souls are fed with the bread of life.«

3 - Signs of the Times [J.V. Himes], The Advent Herald, and Signs of the Times Reporter [Himes], vol. 1 (HST August 7, 1844, page 3.14)

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### Regional organization and mutual support >

»There are seven or eight towns near Waterbury where Advent gatherings take place. They have joined together in a plan to support the elders among them for the regular administration of the holy rites... The "heresy" is deeply rooted and well organized in the heart of that area.«

4 - Signs of the Times [J.V. Himes], The Advent Herald, and Signs of the Times Reporter [Himes], vol. 1 (HST January 15, 1845, page 180.10)

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