Our evening service last night was ‘moved’ to be held as a joint service with other churches in the town. It was hosted and led by the Elim church, but all manner of Anglicans, Baptists, brethren, charismatics, free churches etc where there.
The evening was part of Hope 2008, a major initiative in this country for churches to work together to achieve things. In the words of the director of the Evangelical Alliance, we need to change the image of the church form a million wagging fingers to two million open arms.
All this is good.
But the thing that struck me as amusing was the combinations of people in the room. Our town is sometimes described as an ‘ecclesiastical roundabout’, because people keep swapping churches. They get disgruntled with one church and go to the one round the comer instead. And yet these people, who have left each other, were now stuck in the same room promising to work together. God has a sense of humour, does he not?
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