Oasis: Healing For The Soul

This Sunday, May 3rd, at 6:30 in the evening, BlackLin and I are leading a rather different type of service at CBC's North Caversham building, on Kidmore Road (click here for a map). We've called it Oasis because it is meant to be a break in the journey, space to rest and be refreshed, and a time to find healing for the soul. It is a service aimed more at the spiritual than the religious, and focuses more on Jesus than on church.

This isn't the best time in many ways to be doing this: it is a bank holiday weekend so many people are away, and neither Lin nor I are particularly fit at the moment. But these are the times when you really get to see if God is behind something or not.

If you're in Caversham this weekend, do come along. If not, a positive thought our way on Sunday evening would be greatly appreciated.

Update (early hours of Monday morning): okay, so God was behind the service, but I still don't really understand what's going on. We said we wanted to see people experience the touch of Jesus, and we saw God dramatically at work making especially sure that certain people got just that. Not people from our church, nor, so far as I know, Caversham. So why did they need to come out to us? Why couldn't God have ministered to them where they were? Who knows (although I seem to recall a precedent in the Old Testament)?

One of the things we were hoping to determine from tonight, was whether this would provide a model for future services. What happened was such a one-off that it didn't really tell us much about that, although my immediate impression is that this is more likely to be an 'occasional' format than a regular one. But we'll have to see. The bottom line is that God was able to help some people tonight, and that is what it's all about.

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