It's all about to start here at The Meeting House, in Auckland. Newspaper journalists have rung, television and radio stations have booked interviews, the sound system is checked through, the leaders have booked lunch dates - and as we speak the General should be somewhere over the ditch (other wise known as the Tasman Sea).
Easter is a special time, and it has resulted in more questions than usual from our people. It has been a privilege to speak to the people associated with our Church about Jesus, the cross and Easter. Mostly they want to know what relevance Easter has for them, now! I'm not going to preach here - but it has caused me to make sure that all that we do here this weekend, in all the running around, that we make sure that we don't get so busy that we don't hear the questions, and we don't lose sight of the fact that if we fail to present the relevance of Easter then we have failed.
So, it's some pressure to put on the General, but it is equally pressure on the rest of us - because if the people don't feel accepted and welcome then the words will be irrelevant - won't they?
