Grapevine was special this year because we truly felt that God spoke to us through the various speakers about the reasons we came to Billinghay.....
We had reinforcing messages of why it was important to stay within our church at St Michael's and to "speak" to families, to bring them to Christ.
The village is growing and lots of young couples and families are joining in our village life... some are Christians but not necessarily choosing to stay within the village to worship and some not going to church at all... Now, it is so important to have diversity in churches and worship as long as they are constant in one thing... their grounding in the Bible and Christ's teachings. We all have differing tastes.... different methods of self expression.... but we CANNOT use these differences against each other! USE them to welcome new members into the church family.... making them comfortable in knowing that it is OK to think and feel differently whilst still accepting Jesus as our Saviour.
We would like to formulate an opportunity for ecumenical worship, strengthening the village by Faith.... Bringing together those who know Christ whilst welcoming ANYONE who comes knocking at the door... We need to know there are other Christian families... our children need to know that it's OK to be Christian.... we need to SUPPORT one another to grow in Faith, spread the Good News and save in Christ as many as we can..