Two weeks ago at our annual Field leaders conference we engaged in several ways with the story of Lazarus in John 11. It was particularly profound as so many of us have experienced death and other losses through this pandemic.
In the story Jesus arrives once Lazarus was dead 4 days, the point they believed his spirit had left the vicinity and decay had started. Nothing to be done but leave the stone in front of the grave and weep. Jesus joins in this weeping, an amazing picture of heart of God, but also invites Martha to roll away the stone, so that he might speak Life to what is dead.
As a team we considered the places we have considered past saving, where God invites to roll away the stone, that he might speak life. Join us in praying and believing that God is one who speaks Life into places of death.