Over the last few weeks here at CBC we have been asking God to guide us as we consider what is next for us. This evening, as a part of that process, we're meeting to listen to what we believe God has being saying to us.
I know that a few people are a bit anxious about the idea of a 'Vision Evening'. If you've never been to this sort of thing before you may have questions: 'what is it?', 'what's going to happen?', 'what am I going to have to do?'.
Even if you have been to this kind of thing before I have no idea whether this one will be anything like your previous experience.
We're going to come together and we want to worship God and to hear him speak to us. No one is going to make you do or say anything you don't want to. We will come together to worship God and to pray, and then we will move into smaller groups to share together about what we believe God has been saying to us over recent weeks. As I said last week – you may have been praying but you’ve not heard God say anything – please can I encourage you to come along. Maybe God will speak to you tomorrow.
Our conversation will be focused around three main questions:
Who is God calling us to be?
Who is God calling us to reach?
How does God want us to do this?
The focus of the first question is who we are and the focus of the other two questions is what we do.
This evening is not going to be the end of this process. We will take away all the written feedback and read it through and pray about what we find there to discover the common threads and the direction that God is leading us in.
I’m looking forward to a great evening as we wait expectantly for what God is going to do.
Here's one of the songs that we're going to be singing which may be new to a few of you.
