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It's good to be together, in church, with like-minded people, friends or family.  There is warmth, support, understanding and care.

You might like to count how many times the Risen Christ appeared to his followers whilst they were together.

They huddled together behind locked doors for security reasons:  their situation made less frightening among friends.  Fear may well have paralysed them, as it does us.

Into the locked up fear Jesus came with a breath of peace.  'Peache with you' he whispered.  Into the anxiety, confusion, and dread:  peace.

Not a sleepy, easy peace! 'As the Father sent me - so I send you'
Together, that unlikely group of blievers were given a job to do:  just as Jesus was!
Being together at Penetcost, peace became power:  to proclaim and to live the good news.  The beliveres were 'so together' that they shared everything they had.

Sharing everything is more than meeting physical needs; testifying to resurrection life is about sharing life in all its fullness.  That was the job God gave Jesus and that he has passed on to us!

So I wonder what it means for us, as individual Christians within our own church community and as churches within Bradford North Circuit at the present time.  With the particular issues that face us, we need to share everything we have so that together we might spread the good news of God's saving love.

Sarah

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