A Passion for Life is a great evangelistic project and there is much excitement in our own congregation as we have seen many outsiders attending events as part of the build up to the main mission during Easter week. I am sure it is the same in other churches nationwide and we thank God for this.
If we long to see A Passion for Life being effective then we need to give ourselves to prayer, perhaps even prayer with fasting.
Even apart from A Passion for Life there are other reasons to seek God earnestly over the next month or so. We face an imminent General Election, the outcome of which will have a major influence on our future. None of the major parties have a programme with which Bible-believing Christians can feel at all comfortable. And whereas many oppose any voice for Christianity in the public square, the present government is quite clear that they would like to dictate to churches and Christian families what they can and cannot do. Meanwhile it is salutary to watch and listen on YouTube to what Jack Straw’s Justice Minister Shahid Malik had to say to a conference of Muslims recently. Celebrating the ever increasing Islamic influence in Britain, he says: ‘At this rate, the whole Parliament will be Muslim’. When we also consider the economic dangers for Britain caused by our stupendous national debt and the massive moral dangers current in our media and much proposed legislation, it is very clear that we stand at a crossroads.
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 …