I am currently at the New Wine Summer conference in muddy Shepton Mallet. I went to an excellent seminar on Tuesday about connecting with the poor – a key theme there was a bible study on Nehemiah and the fact he knew the poor intimately by name. An obvious challenge to me and the rest of St Columba church family.
A phrase from Nehemiah 6:3 has been hanging around ‘I am doing a great work’ and I feel that this is what God is saying about the tasks before St Columba.
New opportunities are opening up before us – unprecedented in their scope but we seem to lack the people to help us. Increasingly a number of local Christians have suggested that we should challenge other local churches to prayerfully seek members of their congregations to come and join the new work at St Columba…
This tied in with something Mark Melluish said last night in a moving testimony about his son’s near fatal accident three months ago. A mother eagle starts to dismantle the nest when the eaglets are ready to fly – making it uncomfortable to stay before pushing them out.
My wife and I wondered if anyone was feeling that divine discomfort? If we had 5 married couples plus others who came and committed themselves to this work, it would transform us and them!
