MOT

Sundays are always good.

They act as a kind of doorway by which we can leave one week and put all it's held behind us once for all. A new start.

And a reminder that God's a resurrecting God and does great things.

Sundays give us strength to face another week.

Which is just as well. Since another week brings fresh and further challenges.

And much of today's been spent addressing just such challenges. Seeking God's wisdom and figuring out just what we should be doing as we seek to follow him.

There's been a fair amount of practical, admin sort of stuff. Meeting with folk to organise the things that need attending to. Ensuring we cover all the bases.

There's been a fair amount of weightier stuff as well. Meeting again to talk and think and pray with other leaders here with a view to addressing a changing situation and the fresh demands such changes inevitably bring.

"If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask God..." God promises to deliver. A good job he does, because otherwise we'd be well and truly stuck.

So there's been a lot of asking going on. And we look to the Lord to sort all these things out.

We had a visit this evening from a couple of folk from another congregation.

It's called a 'Quinquennial Visitation', which sounds a scary thing. But it's not really. It's a sort of five-yearly check-up, at the end of which a report is written about the life and the general health of the congregation. Or otherwise.

And in order to make it more meaningful, the idea is that in years 1 and 3 of the five year block, there's a brief, informal meeting where the 'check-up-team' can get some sort of feel for things.

It's a bit like an annual MOT for a car. Except there's nothing as such to 'pass'. Just a check-up, looking at all the different parts of our life.

And checking, I guess, that it's safe for us still to be on the road.

That was the meeting tonight. It was really pretty positive. And I think these folk who were here to do the 'visiting' were positive as well. Glad to have shared in this tiny way in the life that we're seeking to live.

And it was good for all of us as well. To be able to stand just a little bit back and see what the Lord is doing in our midst.