Sunday and STUFF!

So, yesterday was my first day outside of Re:Hope worship in a long time and boy can I tell you I missed my church a lot. The church that’s linked to the Bible College of Wales is a Lifelink church, highly charismatic and highly vocal in the use of spiritual gifts such as tongues. This is a significant oddity for me since well, to be honest I’m not the most charismatic person in the world.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the gifts God bestows upon us all, but sometimes it’s just off putting when I myself try to worship. The worship itself was okay, wasn’t as good as Andy the Hobbit Ashworth but it was still pretty good. The message was excellent, a man called Alan Scotland preached, head of the board of trustees of the Bible College of Wales and it was a real honour to hear him and his story. The man had just flown in from South Africa, he had a good accent whenever he raised his voice, all African like, and the content was above everything BIBLICAL.

But I find myself not too comfortable in the lifelink church. Is it because the financial officer was sitting right next to me, simply eyeing up my knee caps because of my debt? Or was it the fact that I was just outside of my comfort zone.

I have particular opinions on gifts of the spirit and how they should be used during a church service, lifelink church pretty much being all the opposite of those, which is good, because it is a challenge to me, my viewpoint and my understanding of the body of Christ of which I am a part. Imagine a foot not being able to understand the leg? Chaos would follow.

Now for evening worship I went to an Elim church which is in the city of Swansea itself and there I felt right at home. The worship set was EXACTLY like Re:Hope and the quality was that of Andys. The preaching well there was no preaching because it was a Youth night which meant absolute direness on stage, in an effort to bore people into accepting Jesus Christ. But hey, if it’s effective.

 I’m thinking I might start attending the Elim church rather often. I had a good conversation with a church elder and his wife, two people that I connected with rather quickly. I found out that they attend Ellel Ministry seminars regularly and I’m looking forward to learning more from them.

There’s so much more I have to talk about, but I will probably give another update shortly and when I can be bothered to type.

For those of you who want to know my new address.

Daniel Ward

The Bible College of Wales
Derwen Fawr Road
Sketty
Swansea
SA2 8EB
UK

Oh yes, I will be preaching in a church on the 14th of this month so prayers would be good.