Spring Harvest 2009 (3)

An interesting quote form Day Three at Spring Harvest: Peter's capacity to lead is directly related to his capacity to hear the voice of God.

We were looking at the story of Cornelius, or more specifically Peter's account of what happened. As Peter retells the story we get to see how he responded to what God was doing. God takes Peter out of his comfort zone but not out of God's comfort zone. And of course God, who gave the Law in the first place, is the one who now tells Peter to step out beyond that same Law.

In the afternoon I went to the second seminar on discipleship. Lots more to think about, many things that we've done in church but that we need to recapture and do again and again. The challenge is to help people to understand that their daily routine is important to God and to help them live both incarnationally and missionally in those situations.

So two good sessions and at the moment as I type, I'm watching the evening celebration on TV.

I also did a bit of work on an idea for a leaflet to give out on Sundays about what's happening. Not a reworking of the notices but something different. Ally and David helped me with some ideas last night and we'll work on it a lot more before we use it. Our goal is to use it for the 19th April when we have a dedication.

Tomorrow I need to give myself some time to work on the Easter to Pentecost series and maybe to do a bit of people watching in Skyline. I'm not being cynical, but I do wonder what difference all the book and t-shirt sales make to the ongoing daily expression of God at work in the individual. We're back at Peter's point that we have all we need for godliness, it's just that someone needs to tell the publishing houses and also remind the Christian that thinks that a new Bible will make all the difference.