I caught up with loads of (past and present) YFC friends today, and some new ones as well.

The day started with a great breakfast meet up with Leesa in Starbucks in Loughton at 830. It was good to catch up and share what was, and had been, happening since the last time we met. Leesa used to be director of Epping Forest YFC and is now assistant minister of a local church.

The rest of the day was spent with workers from across the south east region, with teams coming from as far as Norwich and from Wycombe, and as close as from Waltham and Kingston. I love these days when we get together to share,catch up, pray and hear from the YFC leadership Team what is happening and how we are moving, changing, or need to change, as a movement.

We started the day by looking at John 14 and Roy drew out for us, that for things to get better, for things to multiply, Jesus had to leave the disciples. He was basically saying ‘I have been with you for 3 years, and its been great, but now I have to eave so I can return and live in you’. In other words – you have learnt about me, but now, to move things on, you need to experience me.

Today, people don’t want to know facts about, today people want to experience life with a living God. I think people want to feel the life changing impact that God will have upon their lives, not hear a list of what they should believe to belong.

WE know this. It is not new to us. We know that in this post modern world that people place greater emphasis on the experience of spirituality than they do on the understanding of hat is actually going on.

I’m wondering, for those people that feel concerned with this, whether this, today, is really any different to those disciples 2000 years ago hiding behind the locked doors in the upper room. They were waiting for the Holy Spirit, for the experience of God, but they did not really understand what was happening. They had been with Jesus for 3 years, but it is still clear that they had very little understanding of who Jesus was.

I find it exciting to see, that even 2000 years ago, Jesus is pre-empting a post modern phenomenon, that’s it has been sat there for that long, and now speaks to us with a freshness and vibrance that only our creator can give. Truly amazing!