We have just had a very memorable weekend with Jim Gordon, Principal of the Scottish Baptist College. The various meetings - a cafe on Friday night, a teaching session on Saturday morning and the various Sunday services - were all about looking together at the message of the prophet Isaiah. On a personal level, I found the teaching from Isaiah inspiring. While the people were walking in darkness, Isaiah spoke a message of hope, of God's light which would come. When the circumstances seem bleak in our lives and a way forward seems impossible, Isaiah encourages us to believe in a God who is a much bigger than our limited horizons. The stories told on Friday night of people like Martin Luther King who challenged the darkness will stay with me, as will the memory of watching the Blind Brothers of Alabama singing Amazing Grace. It was a great blessing to have Jim with us, and if you want to read about what he made of the weekend, you can read all about it here.
On a wider level, it was personally disappointing to have put so much effort into organising the weekend and to have had so little engagement from the congregation as a whole. During the next few months, (and in the spirit of the prophet Isaiah!) I am keen to explore whether there is any kind of an event of this nature beyond a Sunday morning which can unite a congregation. These times together are just so good, that it seems such a pity that so few people from our congregation make time for them.
DM
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