The Third Thing I Learned This Week

Traders are the first people against the Holy Spirit in the Bible. This is also an indication that when you see tradesmen, craftsmen, stone masons, get involved, something is happening spiritually. So we have people anointed by God with a mantle of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit upon them and we're dealing with some deep structural change. This is deep renewal. It's not just bringing in new shiny bowls and better wick cutters - it's actually asking us to rebuild the key structures of what it is to be the people of God. Now the third thing I learned was that we are doing this at a particular time when a particular challenge comes against this work of