On the final full day of conference we had a session of news from overseas. It was a privilege to hear about what is going on in Italy and India and Sri Lanka and among people from the Comoros Islands in Marseille, etc. It was perhaps an omission not to have anything from Ukraine. In the evening we had Terry Johnson's final session on the church - on the content of worship. This included a programme for us. He helpfully took a partly autobiographical approach (including a rendition of Psalm 92 to If I were a rich man). The contents are
1. Reading the Word
2. Preaching the Word
3. Praying the Word
4. Singing the Word
5. See the Word (the Lord's Supper and baptism
I thought he made an interesting point against stream of consciousness praying, which I suppose I tend to. May be there should be more structure. He ended with a call to take the long view of things and to hold our nerve. Here he included families as well as churches faithfully ministering.
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