God is Great - and so was CLAN Gathering 2008!

We got back yesterday from this year's CLAN Gathering.
It's not a gathering of any one Highland clan.
Instead it's a conference for Christians Linked Across the Nation.

There were more than 3000 people at the conference, meeting in the big blue tent used for T-in-the-Park, which was on the weekend before.

The worship was great, one of the leaders being Brian Doerksen from Canada, who wrote Come Now is the Time to Worship.

The speakers were great, from England, USA, and Scotland. The conference theme was Grace, focussing on this character of God who gives us good things, even although we don't deserve them.

And as always at CLAN there was prayer ministry at various times where we saw God healing people of various conditions, including upper body paralysis that had resulted from a broken neck!

Another theme of the conference was the increasing number of churches and other groups who are taking healing, prophecy, and dream interpretation, out onto the streets of Scotland and other parts of Britain. As people experience the activity of God in their lives they respond by turning their lives around to serve God.

Once again people are experiencing the power of God in everyday situations just as the followers of Jesus saw in Biblical times. Such everyday activity of God was also seen in the life of the early church, and at various times since then down through the centuries.

God is great - and it is great fun to be one of his followers!