Back from the dead
The little Grace Baptist church in Watford, North West of London, had closed some time ago. However, driven by concern for God’s glory a Christian worker was stirred to seek to reopen it.
There was a promising initial meeting in the old chapel on Easter Sunday this year, with 22 people, including many well-wishers, present. But the following Sunday showed the cold reality of the situation. The preacher was the only one there for the morning service.
What did he do? Some people might think he was nuts, but he sang, prayed, gave a Bible reading and preached his message in the empty building. As he came out afterwards and started locking up he saw a woman standing out front. She asked what he had been doing in the chapel? He told her, ‘I was worshipping God’. She replied, ‘But you were all on your own!’ She then went on to tell him that if he didn’t give up she would join him next Sunday. He didn’t! She did!
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …