This is the Light of the World – Put Out for Health and Safety Reasons
It is always good to have Phil Waldron leading our services at Chester as he brings great warmth and humour to what he does and his sense of the dramatic means you never know where you might be going next. Last Sunday he even sang which all of us enjoyed very much apart from Mariecarmen's dog, who has been living under the misapprehension that church is where you go to catch up on sleep. Probably if the truth be known, there are people in churches all over the country who feel the same way, and some of them are in the pulpit. Phil's service was memorable, and not just for the singing. We meet in a sports centre, and just as the service was about to begin the fire alarm went off so we had to go outside where we were met by another group of people carrying bows and arrows. For a moment I wondered if Phil's sense of the theatrical had got the better of him and we were about to become the unwilling participants in a dramatisation of the s