I believe that God is here. I believe that God wants to meet us here and speak His word of life and give His gift of grace. I really believe in the presence and power of God!

There is no more urgent task confronting the contemporary Church than the intensification of the experience of God at the heart of our life together. Not God as an interesting relic of the past… not God as object of learned discussion…not God as obligatory word uttered and then forgotten… and not God assumed but not central. No, none of that. But God as presence…God as power…God as experienced reality!

Throughout history, whenever the people of God have lost that and have relied only upon their own resources, we have been weak and impotent. But, when we have been sure of God and have sent our roots deep into His gre…