Thought provoking

Have just read Liz's blog and felt compelled to write this - yes I know twice in one day - i don't even manage that in a week usually. But hey.

Well our Easter weekend is being led by Jean and Ian Harris - they are classed as our "specials" as although they go to our corps we had to book them a year ago to ensure we snared them first - sorry just find that amusing.

Well they lead a very good if somewhat different to the norm Good Friday service. It was very well put together and very powerful - just the way G.F should be.

Anyway, was sat in my usual position in the hall (end of the cornet bench - oh how I miss my horn - but that's a whole other blog altogether) pretty much in the middle of the hall.

At Ilford we have a life size cross stood in front of the platform, behind the middle of the mercy seat during the singing of the first song I had to peer round the "arm" of the cross and actually thought "the cross is in the way" Woah! At that point everything stopped and I just sat there, Shouldn't the cross always "get in the way" or at least what Jesus did for us.

Wow amazing how something so simple can just stop us in our tracks and make us think and just how many dimensions that one phrase has - "The Cross is in the Way" yet it is the Cross that paves our way. So that was my big wow/ woah moment from Good Friday the moment that really made me stop and think.