Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Today, we celebrate the birth of the church. Today, we come and gather here in one place for a birthday party, and it is a dangerous one.  In fact, this party has been a dangerous event from day one.   Our story begins on an ordinary day, roughly 2,000 years ago when a small group of despairing believers isolated themselves all together in one place. These disciples huddled together in isolation because they were afraid.  It is quite likely they were afraid of outsiders, so they stayed clustered and cloistered together as one group.  Now, honestly, had they known what was about to happen, they would likely have separated and spread out.  You see, after all they had been through, what was about to happen would have freaked out even the bravest amongst them.   As they clustered together in their small group, they were in danger but not from outsiders.  The danger they were in as they huddled all together in one place, was from a God who was about to crash the party and bring in everyone they were trying to avoi