When is Matters

A humbling yet rewarding day yesterday, preaching in Montana baptist churches in the morning and evening. When sharing with people who have nothing, it is a very sobering challenge. No place for anything but the essential hope and expectation of what we have in Christ now. Hope. The active presence of the Holy Spirit present and active in our lives. Affective reality in meaningful ways. Receiving Christ’s gift of righteousness and peace right now.

And then an amazing realisation, when reading the news. Up to the Referendum, only 25,000 members in the Scottish Nationalist Party. And then on the three days since the referendum, 10,000 new members. That’s what I call revival! And a testimony to the effect that a small group of people, highly motivated and dedicated activists with committed leadership, can have upon a whole nation.

Now, remind me, how many people did we say attend Scottish baptist churches. Did I hear someone say 25,000? There’s a challenge!!!