Today I had the privilege of preaching at local baptist church in Vancouver. It reminded me of my time in Calgary with Truth church, Anna and I were quite nostalgic.

Personally, I have been getting really used to the discussions we have at toh that I almost feel awkward preaching in front of a crowd, almost like I shouldn’t be up there and that we all should just for a huge scrum and really work through the issues of the Bible together.

I think most learning does happen through interaction and so I think I will keep leaning this way, but it will be interesting to see how this is maintained with a larger group.

Anna and Andrea came with me to this small Chinese Baptist church where I spoke on the importance of inviting people outside your church circles to do life with you. The hard thing for them will be have enough time to do so. They would have to drop a number of their programs to allow their people to have more time to develop relationships outside of church…but that’s another issue.

The passage I taught from was Ephesians 2:1-22, and it mainly focussed on the dis-unity of the Jews and the Gentiles in how the Jews were making the Gentiles become more Jewish in order to be a Christians. I compared this to how we (the church) have created our own cultures that normal people have to adapt to in order to be Christians. We need to break these down and go outside our church walls where ministry exists. I think I kept the attention of the group (average age 18), especially when I used the word circumcision…heh.

All in all it was a great time, the church was so friendly (I even had my own parking spot), had a great lunch with Anna and Andrea at the Swiss and we got to go back to Sunday morning church again!

I will try and summarize some of my notes and make them available if anyone wants to read what I taught today.