EMA 2017: fruit amid the battle
JEB
Date posted: 1 Aug 2017
It wasn’t easy to find the Barbican Centre
for
this
year’s
Evangelical Ministry
Assembly (EMA) amid London’s burgeoning road and building works. But it was
worth the tricky navigation for Tuesday –
Thursday, 27–29 June.
The conference theme was ‘Bearing Fruit
and Growing’, with the morning Bible readings coming
from Ephesians. These were
given by Andy Gemmill of
the Cornhill
Training Course in Scotland and reminded
those there that, amid the spiritual battle,
‘your church is what Christ’s rule looks like
now.’ We need to ‘do church’ (I’m not sure I
like
that phrase) by
faith, not by
sight,
because for all its present flaws the church
displays God’s wisdom to the astonishment
of the heavenly powers.