‘Everybody’s welcome at the table,’ 4FrontTheatre told us in one of their excellent (eggsellent) sketches at St Helen’s Church Hall, and that sums up the whole Good Friday Church Crawl. Everyone was welcome, no matter how we celebrated Good Friday. The death of Jesus unites Christians from all denominations (and there was a very funny song in the production ‘So On & So 4th’ about denominations!) because it is only through that sacrificial death that we are reconciled to God and to each other. Paul tells us that ‘God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation’ (2 Cor 5:19) and it was great to be able to pass on that message as we explored different Christian traditions.
The Church Crawl started with a service at Furlong Road Methodist Church after we had prepared the chocolate eggs, daffodils and leaflets for distribution.
We then moved on to lunch and crafts at the Salvation Army, where volunteers prepared turkey sandwiches and other snacks for us.
