This one starts different.
Saturday afternoon, I had the privilege of being invited to a late luncheon with Dr. K.P. Yohannan of Gospel for Asia. I have a tremendous amount of admiration and respect for this man. He's 61 or 62 years old, but has made a gigantic contribution to the kingdom of God. His example of humility, prayer and sacrifice is something that people will write books about in the future. There's almost no point in talking about numbers and metrics. It's staggering, hard to comprehend. 27 years, 8k people in 63 Bible Colleges, a Seminary, thousands of churches, some 3million first generation Christians in gfa churches, orphan, leprosy, widows and Dalit outreaches. He was in Ottawa to speak at the MET for their annual missions week. His messages should be posted on their website within a couple of days. You won't waste your time listening to him share.
Saturday night, packed house, borrowed chairs from adjacent rooms, new faces, familiar faces, long-time-no-see faces, happy faces, giddy faces, glowing faces. The thing that struck me is how late people stay. Christians just love hanging out, fellowshipping, they don't want to leave, they don't want to go home, they just want to be together, and they even hang out in the cold in the parking lot, an hour after we already said good-bye. They are still there, still talking, still hanging out, still glowing with the love of God.
Sunday morning, breakfast burritos... YES & AMEN! A big shoutout to Randy, Dan and even Chelsea who made that possible. What a blessing for me and my kids! We had a couple of visitors, 2 different couples, hopefully we didn't scare them away. I think people are brave when they come to a church that's sitting in a circle and sharing. That can be intimidating. Anyway, it was a blessing to be with the body of Christ, to worship together, share, and then look together in the Bible. Only good things can come out of that.
All in all, what's obvious to me from the whole weekend, is I sense grace, grace received, grace promised, and grace that is flowing among us. May God be glorified.
soon!
Here's a picture of Brother KP and I at lunch... what a privilege!
Here's a link to Brother KP's Sermons at the Met...
http://www.metbiblechurch.ca/index.php?q=sermons
Posted by: Andy Falleur | November 08, 2011 at 11:32 AM