I have been asked to provide a title for a talk I must give in April on the Christian Healing Ministry and offered the words Radical Revolution. It was only after the title was sent off that the Middle East politically erupted. Would anyone now misunderstand what I meant by Revolution? I had meant it to represent a wheel turning a full circle, doing one revolution, but now it looks like violent upheaval. What would the word mean to you?

My four and a half year old Grandson Sam was being shown a picture book and was being asked to identify what he saw. He stared for a long while at a picture of a spinning top without recognising it. Well, what boy at that age would ever have seen one before? But the teacher had told him it was a spinning top, to which explanation he nodded and duly accepted.

Returning much later to identify the same picture again, he duly smiled with recognition and announced it to be a spinning T-shirt! Isnt that exactly what a top is?

But my revolution is a turning around to begin again. It�s abandoning all the clever ways in which ministry has developed down the centuries and going back to doing it the way that Jesus taught it. Perhaps surprisingly, that�s very different and very simple and very much more effective.

Its called Kingdom healing. Its creation restoration. Its obedience, after all.

I get the feeling sometimes that much of what we do as Church these days is much less cross orientated than it must have been hundreds of years ago, muchmore socially and technically orientated today. But the power of ~god lies in the message of the cross, so my Bible says. Fancy going back? Fancy just one revolution?