Preaching is an awesome responsibility - to mount a pulpit and proclaim God’s word.  I remember my first visit to China in 1979. The Bamboo Curtain was just being drawn a bit. Miraculous things have happened since then, as you very well know. But back then you couldn’t meet publicly with Christians - so, on my trip we met in secret. I remember being with three couples in a hotel room in Beijing. It was as near to what I think it must have been in the early church when Christians gathered in the catacombs to worship. We talked quietly but we ran the risk of singing together. The first two hymns they wanted to sing were “Amazing Grace” and “What a Friend we Have in Jesus.” I asked them, “What do you miss the most, as Christians unable to publicly practice your faith?” Do you know what they s…