New Year/New Decade/New Look

Happy New Year and a Happy New Decade to you all! I hope you had a really good break and are all set for another awesome year walking with God. As you may have noticed, I decided to give my blog a bit of a new look for a new decade: what do you think?Yesterday was our first meeting of the year and it was really good to gather together in God's presence and start the year as we mean to go on. We can really take things for granted sometimes. Seeing everyone again after the holidays really stirred a genuine appreciation of who we are and what we have in the Lord. It's not about how big a church is or even how many are becoming Christians; what matters is the spirit behind a Church and primarily its leadership. Everything is spiritual (Ephesians 6:10-18) and a Church, like everything else, will demonstrate and manifest the Spirit behind it. As we gathered yesterday I was genuinely pleased to see everyone again but it was more than just that, after all people who are not Christians can be pleased to people again! No, it's the Holy Spirit within people which I esteem, value and raise up. He dwells in us (1 Cor 6:19-20) and as we gather together it is His presence which pours out (or for some of us drips out!) creating that unique, Christ-owned, God-centred BCC dynamic which so many of us know and love.

As we being a new year and a new decade stop and thank God for all He is doing in and through us. Thanks God that we do genuinely miss that living, flowing presence in each one of us when we are not together and rejoice that there is a special BCC-shaped expression of the Kingdom of God here on this earth and you are a part of it!