Well we return home to London today, (Friday) in order to get home in time for our Sunday meeting at Grace East. It has been a great trip. We always enjoy spending time with Steve & Melanie McVey but this trip held extra meaning for us as we not only ministered together at the first of this year’s Radical Freedom conferences, we also got to travel with them to their home in Atlanta. We had quite a road trip. Among the many neat things that we did, yes of course we went to Gone with the Wind Country but frankly my dear I could give a da-yam about that compared with our visit to the Martin Luther King Center; that was a profound experience for all of us.
I don’t mind telling you I sat and wept as I watched the video presentation of the life and work of Dr. King. It was made all the more profound for me given that I had been speaking at the weekend about focussing on our “destiny” more than our destination. It was amazing how the decision of one woman, Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery that proved to be her moment of destiny and flung wide the door of opportunity for Dr. King to step into his!
Reliving the story of the Civil Rights struggle has heightened the sense of destiny that I feel about our struggle for the freedom to worship Jesus free from the guilt and the oppressive hand of legalism. Standing outside The Ebenezer Baptist Church (the church that Dr. King pastured) and walking through the home where Dr. King was raised for the first twelve years of his life really stirred something inside of me.
When Hayley turned on the lights in or hotel room this morning the light that pierced the darkness was so strong that it took a moment for my eyes to adapt to the intrusion of light. But that light was nothing compared to the glare of the Florida sunshine at midday; but that in turn proved to be nothing in comparison to the light of the gospel that shone so brightly at the first of our 2008 Radical Freedom conferences which we have just conducted here in Orlando Florida. Steve and I were really encouraged by the feedback that we have received through e-mail from folks that attended the conference.
If you were unable to attend but would like to get the conference on CD you can contact Steve McVey’s office:
Grace Walk Ministries
Phone: 1-800-472-2311
E-mail: info@gracewalk.org
Order line: 1-800-472-2311
(Oh yes that is Paul, Yemisi, Kieran & Dionne you can see in the shot.)
(Monday, 17 September 2007) Written by Administrator
Happy 7th anniversary to everyone at The Grace Project! It has been great to be a part of TGP from the start (17th september 2000) and to see how it has changed during these years. And it has been fantastic to see and meet all the people who has come in contact with TGP and then discoverd their freedom in Christ and found out who they really are. I'm excited to see where it will go from here, and I'm sure TGP (including all of us) still will proclaim the good news and help people to be set free.
The spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim
liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.
(Luke 4:18-19 - ESV)
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