With news of how God brings blessing and new life out of the darkest of situations in His church, Jim Sayers of the Association of Grace Baptist Churches writes:
What happens when your church building gets destroyed in an air raid? That happened to the church in Chatham Road, Wandsworth Common on 15 October 1940. After World War 2, large numbers of Londoners moved out to the new towns. A number of Grace Baptist churches were planted in these new towns in the 50s and 60s, a time of real social change. So Fryerns Baptist Church was planted in Basildon, Essex in 1954 to replace the church in Wandsworth.
Spiritual warfare is just as real, a continuous conflict that is often unseen, with Christ and His church attacked by the spiritual forces of darkness in the heavenly realms. This can manifest itself in the kind of conflicts we know in church life, as well as other physical traumas and sufferings. The church at Fryerns has known its fair share of both. Against this backdrop of brokenness, the church of Jesus Christ is the consistent visible testimony to the marvellous love, grace and righteousness of God.
