Together…
Hi All,
I hope and trust that you have had a good week! I felt prompted to write to each of you this week as I have been particularly reminded of the strength of who we are ‘together’.
My guess is all of us have different aspects that we love about Oasis, for me one of them is that Oasis church is never about an individual or a specific group but rather is always about who we are together. That we have found that there is a multicoloured richness in who we are and what we are able to achieve and celebrate as we come together. I know this particularly struck me last Sunday morning as different individuals shared their stories of what God is doing in and through their lives as I reflected on the fact that each of the stories were ‘our’ stories collectively rather than just individuals stories.
With this thought of together in mind I wanted to highlight two aspects of church life over the coming week that act as an opportunity to celebrate and stand together!
The first is this coming Sunday when we have Adrian Holloway with us and we get to meet for the first time in the ‘Big top’ aka the marquee. I wanted to encourage as many of us to be there both morning and evening not just to support Adrian Holloway but also to celebrate a moment for us as a church. I know for me when I stood in the ‘big top’ (which by the way has plastered walls and carpet – not much like a tent) I was filled with this sense of excitement of what it would look like one day for us to be gathering filling rooms like this! Of the richness of diversity that would continue to be revealed as we gather together. Of your friends and mine who might be there of people we don’t know yet being there of the way we will be transforming the city we are in.
I guess what I am trying to say is as we gather this Sunday let’s gather with eyes that see what we will be as well as who we are, and the excitement that both bring! An that we get to enjoy it together!
The second is the prayer week, as always I am not asking for commitment to 10 sessions but rather to encourage as many of us as possible to participate as it has to be one of the most privileged setting we have where we get to gather together to stand in the gap between God and our friends, family, city, nation and the nations. And to ask this God who can do more than we could ask imagine to come and change everything!
Thank you for taking the time to read this mail and thank you for privilege of being able to stand together!
With much love and peace,
Adrian
