Easter Convention..

Went to Katoomba Easter Convention over the weekend. Helped out in the bookstall mostly. Great fun. And heard most of the talks too.
We had three great speakers: David Jones, Kanishka Raffel and Jonathan Dykes.

The messages of the weekend were Cross-focused, and for that reason challenging. Kanishka challenged us with comments that we underestimate the Word of God, we underestimate the Love of God, we underestimate the potential of money for the Gospel, and we underestimate the danger of money as well.

David reminded us of the Servant King, the Dying King, and the Living King.

For me the weekend was summed up in these six words from David's last talk -

Come and see, Go and tell.

We have seen Jesus, indigant at death, weeping at death, we've seen Jesus wash his disciple's feet, we've seen the empty tomb, we've seen the Risen Christ - SO - Go and tell, tell of what we've have seen, a man, who did not consider it robbery to be like God, but humbled himself, even to death on a cross - he died that we would be restored.

These are my first brief thoughts - will write more later - there was so much there - and like every convention, I've done the easy bit - sat in the auditorium, heard the Gospel, now the hard bit: to apply these lessons not simply today, tomorrow, but next week, next month, next year, and until My LORD and My God calls me Home.