We have just launched a new series called “Back 2 Acts II” where we are focusing on building a compelling community and establishing greater degrees of discipleship. Our Sunday message is followed up midweek during Community Night and in our Home Groups with a hands-on, practical approach for participants to take out with them.

Recently we enjoyed a biblical style meal complete with first century style furnishings and food. A “head” table shaped like a triclinium (3-sided low table) was the focal point, with twelve “actors” taking part and enacting possible scenarios from believers’ lives in first century Jerusalem after the huge ingathering at the time of Pentecost. With dialogue, song, testimony and prayer, scripture came alive for all the guests as they ate their delicious lamb stew and listened/watched. Afterwards they were invited to reflect and discuss the various points that were brought through the scenarios and how it might …