Thought for the Week

I am enjoying watching the many online church services.

I love the variety, the creativity, the scenery and so much more.

There is, of course, much ongoing discussion as to what the church of the future will look like.

I feel a sense of excitement when I think of a new chapter in our spiritual lives, a sense of wondering where and how God will lead us. This future may be uncertain, but God’s companionship and guidance on that journey is certain.

From Abraham’s first pilgrimage into the unknown, God has been faithful in leading and nurturing his people.

I know too, however, that people are anxious about this aspect of change, and many would just like things to go back to how they were before this COVID time.

But I think we all have to be prepared that things will not be the same again.

The various faith denominations are having meetings, using technology of course, to try to work out the way forward.

How do we tell the old, old story in a new time and new way?

I was reading recently that the first immigrants to Australia, anxious their Bibles would be confiscated, took the stories of the Bible with them by means of their tattoos.

As I go around some of the beautiful churches in Argyll, I find these Bible stories also portrayed in beautiful stained glass windows.

So here is another challenge for you. If you could only tell one Bible story by means of a tattoo, a stained glass window, or any other means, which story would it be?

Which story would you use to convey the message to a worried and waiting world?