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Yesterday's woes were all to do with the database.

Today the website's been the problem that I've faced.

Well, not so much the website as the access to the thing. For editing purposes.

You can still go onto the internet and find the church's website. Except now it's kind of 'frozen' in time. And therefore, day by day getting more and more out of date.

Don't ask me exactly what happened earlier on this week. It was one of those great disappearing tricks where the the whole thing, well, disappeared.

I went into the programme we use for updating the website pages. And all that was left was half a page! The rest had simply disappeared!

I've been taking advice and having folk in - and the end of it all is the route we'll adopt with the database now as well. Starting all over again.

Rebuilding the thing from scratch. Of course, like the database, too, it's not entirely from scratch. The data's still there. We can copy the text from the website you see on the internet. The website now frozen in time.

Building the whole thing again. Twice in two days in two separate realms, we've been forced to go down this same route.

First the database. Now the website, too.

I just have the strangest feeling that this two-pronged little challenge is a lesson from the Lord. A kind of visual aid, to help me get the picture.

The task that lies to hand involves, effectively, rebuilding the church again. Going back to square one (as in back to the call that Jesus gave to follow him). And starting all over again.

There's a 'website' still out there which anyone wishing can see. It's called 'the church'. Come and visit us!

And sure, like our website just now, it's getting, as each day goes by, progressively out of date.

But all the while, behind that rather 'frozen' sort of 'front' that's called 'the church', a whole new sort of website's being built. We're working on that. Behind the scenes. And there's lots we can copy across, of course.

But I guess that's what we're called upon to do these days. And I think that's what the Lord is maybe saying through this dual set of problems that we've had with our technology.

Anyway, I've spent some time on that today. And working on material for our newly re-vamped notice-board. Which reflects, I suppose, the building that we're doing from the ground.

And all the preparation that I've done as well, I guess that, too, is pretty much the process of rebuilding. Bit by bit developing the embryonic life of God's new thing.

Going back to square one and building the thing from scratch.

I think I'm getting the message!

It was Genesis 1 we looked at when I met with those two couples back on Wednesday night. Perhaps that was prophetic for us all! In the beginning God created...