Last week was Pentecost Sunday, the celebration of the activity of the Spirit, and offered some real encouragements:
· the Spirit disturbed the church, and so a “disturbed” auditorium. We will continue the experiment of visuals, a closer pulpit and a floor to ceiling frost cloth over the next weeks
· the Spirit challenging and convicting, and so someone saying yes to baptism
· the Spirit sending the church out in mission (1), and so a prayer walk around our Waltham community, which included the most practical prayer I have ever seen, “Your Kingdom come on earth,” as we picked up broken glass in the Waltham Primary School playground
· the Spirit sending the church out in mission (2), and so JM meeting with AC, our Missions Leader, and Jamie Wood, from Pioneers, seeking to discern together what God is saying about her returning longer term to Puerto Rico
· the Spirit sending the church out in mission (3), and so 6 people giving out flowers into our local community during our Sunday morning service. They were received with gratitude and warmth. A further encouragement was meeting a woman living in a garage, who pointed to a bowl of tomatoes. “They are from the vegetable plants that your church gave out last year [in the Spring Clean].” It was great to see evidence of our church making a practical difference in our community.
So much of the activity of the Spirit to thank and praise God for.
Posted by opawa at May 16, 2008 07:04 PM