The
latest Alpha course at Holy Trinity is in full swing. It reminds me of the
first Alpha course I was involved with back in the mid-1990s when we invited a
young preacher from London to lead the weekend away. He brought with him three
helpers who seemed to have stepped out of glossy magazines - young, vibrant,
worryingly good-looking and each with a conversion story more dramatic than the
other. Lives dominated by drugs or crime had been turned around by God’s love.
It was a powerful message and which one of us, if we’re being honest, hasn’t
wished we’d had some dramatic Damascus road experience to wow the crowds and
clearly define the before and after knowing Jesus.
The
reality of course is that most of us have rather more ordinary stories to tell,
but it’s no less important that we tell them. Personal testimonies are a
wonderful witness to the different ways God works through people and however
dull or mundane our own story may seem, there is someone out there to who it
will touch in a way we cannot imagine. The psalmist in this beautiful psalm
says people will ask ‘Where is your God?’. We all have a wonderful answer in
our own story – if we dare tell it!
On a chacun une histoire personnelle à donner. Même
s’il ne semble pas dramatique, il va toucher quelqu’un. Est-ce qu’on ose le
faire ?
Richard
Steel
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