WEDNESDAY

Here’s another slice of Benjamin’s week for your pleasure.
This morning I had great fun unpacking and assembling our new church pool cue (woooow). You would not believe how much packaging they stick on these things, it’s not as if they are made of glass.

I spent the rest of the morning on the phone and reading the bible to prepare a short talk for Solid Rock (Wednesday lunch time group at Chesham Park Community College) and a group study for F.B.I. (a small group for people from Free* Café).

The Solid Rock one was really interesting. It was about God’s contract with Abram and how he and his wife Sarai both laughed when God promised them a baby boy in their 90’s. Instead of getting angry God told them to name their son Isaac (which means “he laughs”). Then he told them to change their names to Abraham and Sarah (“ah ah” get it?). I didn’t have time to talk about it at S.R., but I got to read the freaky bit in Genesis 16 where Abram marks his contract with God by chopping animals in two and laying their carcasses left and right for him to walk down the middle of them. So that blows any claim Damien Hurst had to originality! Apparently it was what people did at the time to mark a deal, like they were saying “may you be killed and cut in two if you break our agreement”. So God was being all ‘contemporary’ and making a deal Abram would recognise. You’ve got to respect that sort thing!

I had lunch with Lydia and the two of us met Matt Ingle (Ley Worker from St Mary’s church) to set up the games consoles and whatnot for F.B.I., where George whooped me at pool but I hammered him twice at table football. Swings and roundabouts. Then we had a really good group study on Jesus’ stories about rejoicing in heaven from Luke 15.

On an unrelated note, I went to see Fearless at the cinema tonight with my mate Simon T. Like all the best martial arts films I left the cinema believing I could actually do kung fu. Which I can’t. Shame.

Ben