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.

It was one of those seminal moments in life that has really fanned the flames in my spirit to see this message of freedom that we carry ring out way beyond the stone hills of Georgia or (Jawja) as they say in these parts. It was real soul food, the spiritual equivalent of the soul food that we enjoyed for lunch whilst we were down in the neighbourhood courtesy of Thelma’s kitchen. Ohmygoodness now that was something! It was a poignant trip which some of the reflections will take a little while to percolate; a brief walk of the grounds of Morehouse College but one of the many highlights. We have urgent business to attend to my friends. We must press the case for freedom and not be at rest until all men are free.

Agape