I was chatting with ‘R’ last week about what the coming year looks like for our church (QBC). In some ways its more of the same – a keeping going in the same direction and being faithful to what we feel God has called us to.

As we talked I had to agree that faithfulness is good, but as ‘R’ said, we really want to see some ‘fire’, some passion in the lives of people, some spiritual battles fought and won, some adventure and faith expressed in risk rather than doggedness.

We have stablilised nicely as a church. We have a healthy bunch of people who seem to get on well together and we can be grateful for that, but wouldn’t it be great to see a ‘bomb go off’ under QBC that ignites it into a dynamic community of people inspired by God and willing to take great risks of faith?

Just a balance to the need for faithfulness…

Its good to be faithful and I think we have done that one pretty well for a while now, but as we come to the book of Acts early in the year I’d like to think we would be asking ‘why doesn’t the 21st C church look a bit more like the 1st C church?’ Of course there are differences due to context, but I get the sense there was energy, conviction and power in those first Christians that is strangely foreign to us here and now.

Let’s have some fire along with the faithfulness I say!