Understanding the Spirit Event

Monday January 31 2022

^{Greyfriars Kirk. Picture: Carlos Delgado CC BY-SA 3.0}

Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh is hosting an event this month aimed at understanding the work of the Spirit in Scotland today.

The Heart Edge event on February 15 will include perspectives from theologians, third sector practitioners and people engaged in front line ministry, and group discussion exploring what the Spirit is doing in each individual’s context.

Greyfriars minister, the Rev Dr Richard Frazer, said: “From the earliest days of the Christian Church there were people who preached, prayed and evangelised. There were people who fed the hungry, cured the sick and walked alongside those who struggled. Some did all these things, but there was always encouragement for people to exercise their particular gifts. And so it is today. There is room for all who wish help our communities to thrive and people to find their worth.

“In our churches we must face the challenge of numerical decline. In our communities, there is a longing for more healing and hope in a world that is fractured and divided as rarely before. Fear of oblivion can drive congregations to look inwards, but anxious institutions never win friends. When hope seems to desert, it can take us gently by the hand and we see signs of life and promise. In our churches, and with partners committed to work for human flourishing, we can overcome our own fears and help our communities thrive once more. As Sam Wells, who founded the Heart Edge movement often says, ‘we can believe in a future that is bigger than the past’.

“During this Heart Edge event we will try to understand the Spirit better with perspectives from theologians, third sector practitioners and people engaged in front line ministry. Then we will spend time in group discussion seeking to explore what the Spirit is doing in our own context and find ways in which we can learn from each other, support one another and put hope, cheer and a bit of confidence back into our places which have faltered lately under the stresses and strains that we have all had to endure over the last two years.“

Heart Edge, which was founded by the Rev Sam Wells at St Martin in the Fields in London, is an ecumenical movement which exists to help churches develop commercial, cultural and community activity, while deepening relationships and insights with those most marginalised.

Tickets and information at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-the-spirit-a-heartedge-event-tickets-251278118617 

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