Right through the BIble

... in about 75 minutes!  

Trying to help everyone make sense of each bit as they read it.

before the 'day' starts

I was here very early this morning.  I saw 'my' coffee shop still curled up asleep.  I watched it stretch and yawn, wash and dress, and start the day.

I saw the supermarket trolleys emerge from the storeroom in a long mobile train ... amazing how they can take a corner, and astonishing how much noise a hundred trolleys makes on a tiled floor! 

I was here to pray.  

Meanwhile my sister wake up 1000km away to this.  God's peace made visible. 

But his peace is everywhere - even behind the counter where the guys are frantically washing mugs, wiping surfaces, steaming milk, "esspressing" coffee, warming muffins, taking orders and generally working like crazy!!

How amazing.

Sunday morning life in the mall ...

Claremont Methodist Church is right on the small urban hub ... it is about 100m from the main entrance of the biggest shopping complex in this hustling satellite of the true city.  While we start church, over the road people are arriving at work and the early coffee shop patrons are collecting their first cappuccino. 

Some people at work are Christians, and wish they could be with us singing and praying and listening to a sermon.  Some of the people physically so close to us are Christians who definitely don't want to be anywhere like church because for them it has been destructive.  But of course many on our doorstep are simply filling their Sunday with activity - books, muffins, clothes, computers, movies ... whatever.  And few of us who venture into the urban maelstrom on Sunday bear any memory of this as a day set aside for spiritual recollection and reflection.

SO ... after church on Sunday morning, some of us gather at vida-e caffe in the thoroughfare of Sunday consumers.  We are companions together in spiritual life in the very place where spiritual life is minimised. 

Ou hope is that the life we acknowledge will bring light.  That being there, together, in Jesus name, will bring him joy, and make space for others to be touched by life too.