That's what this altar is for

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Why does he have to go to the alter?  Ask God to get ahold of him right where he is.  Didn't God find us right where we were the first time at least?  

You know, I learn a lot from reading my gardening magazines and books. I can force a seed into the ground, but if the ground is not warm enough or the soil moist enough the seed will either sit there and rot or just sit there and wait for the right conditions.  Pray that the right conditions will come about for this man. We can't see into his heart to know what God is doing.
Have patience - some seeds in the semi-desert areas can live for 10 years before they sprout, but they will only sprout when the conditions are right.

On the Bible study - bear in mind that the Bible says in various places that "does not nature itself teach us"  so ask God to use what ever medium this man is open to.  If the truth wasn't revealed in the natural things, Jesus wouldn't have used so many parables.  
Debbie


>He says he doesn't go to the altar because it's not scriptural: it
wasn't the practice of the church in the New Testament.  All it is
is an excuse, of course, but how do you respond to something like
that?
>my wife asked him if he'd be interested in a Bible
study at home, which he declined.  I bit my tongue and didn't blat out
that home Bible studies is *precisely* the way the New Testament church
operated :-)

Richard Masoner