An Explosion of Joy! An Explosion of Initiative!
The early Christians were a people who learnt together, hung out together, shared meals together, prayed together, and were filled with a deep sense of awe and wonder in their experience of God. They were a people who were:
Later, in spite of being greatly persecuted in 
In short, they were a people of Jesus who obeyed both
As they obeyed and acted on their faith,
The theologian, Lesslie Newbigin, refers to this extraordinary growth of the church as an “enormous explosion of joy”.
Wouldn’t you like your church to manifest this explosive joy? So attractive, so exciting and so obvious in the resulting change in its life and behaviour?
