A Full Week

A Full Week

Reflecting on a week in the life of LCC. I am struck by the fact so much goes on; in fact more goes on than is known by any of us.
Reverb unplugged was from all accounts a great night with nearly 50 youth and some new emerging talent.
Showcase Sunday was outstanding. The high quality of the presentation on ‘what is a Christian?’ built around a school audience was notable.
The clubs, the cells, new faces every week, Sunday meetings open to God. People becoming Christians. About 8 at the ‘klub’ weekend away last week alone. More reports of people being healed and set free. Especially notable is the ministry of Greg and Angela Kemm in this regard. They come to us each year for a week or two and equip and help catch us all up in being able to pray for people with illness or bondages and see results. We need to see much more but we are seeing more than we did – we must press in. God has promised.
In the business of life it is often possible not to notice when God is at work. He is at work here. We are seeing increased momentum. His grace is upon us. There are a growing numbers of people willing to serve. Acts of kindness slip by almost daily without any great fanfare.
We live in troubled times. Our nation is desperate. Our Town is in great need. The nations of Europe are like a dessert spiritually.
Within the Christian world waves of thought come and go. The atonement is dismissed as an awful theory akin to ‘cosmic child abuse’. Extra Biblical teaching on all sorts of spiritual mysticism is absorbed without anyone commenting or questioning, or being criticised if they do. How we need Churches of Word and Spirit. How we need to ask God to be merciful to us and use us even though we are weak and frail and not in any position of ourselves to commend ourselves.
I love seeing what God is doing amongst us. I love it that he for some reason wants to bless us – why? I am privileged to be surrounded with many godly people. I am genuinely humbled when I see some folk whom I know who have lived with considerable suffering and trials and yet they a radiant with God and his Spirit. That we might be a community drenched in God is the longing of my heart. That God would catch us up more in prayer has got to be a goal. We need God to act according to his promise. Praise him for all he is doing, but call on him for all he has said.
I spoke to someone this morning; they had experienced just this week considerable healing both physically and spiritually. Bring it on!