Early Sunday morning in Riga - March 27

Good morning. Another Sunday! Another week has passed by. It does not seem like Spring has understood that we expected it to show up during the week.

On rupeba.se we have also this week published articles about the Emerging Church. More will come next week.

During the week I received the weekly e-mail from a church in Sweden presenting its program. This week they offered "Test Yoga". Another church invites to "hypnosis". When I read things like this a get the impression that the Church has lost confidence in its own message. They seem to think that there is no attraction in the Gospel and because of that they want to make people come to Church by offering totally different programs than what really should be the contribution of the Church to our generation: Salvation, new birth, forgiveness and new power through the Holy Spirit. No wonder so many Church seats are empty in the Church. Who wants to come to a Church that no longer believes in its own message?

During the week we have also been a tour to Stockholm for some meetings with people. We even got time to hug our second youngest granddaughter. She had celebrated her second birthday since we saw her last time. Our youngest son, father of our second youngest granddaughter, was filming an interview in his house during our visit. It was a former alcoholic who has been saved. The interview will be shown today at the main Pentecostal Church in Stockholm and I will also post it on rupeba.se next week (In Swedish unfortunately). This is something different than "Test Yoga". This is the real thing for the Christian Church: To help people to receive Salvation!

Now it is Sunday morning and we are back home in Riga. Today we will have the Sunday Meeting in Bauska. Then it is time for a new week. The last week of March. Spring must be round the corner!

Have a blessed week.
Peter Baronowsky