such a time
Wherever I travel now across Europe I find that God is awakening a strong desire amongst believers for a different sort of church life; one in which all are empowered, where top down heirarchies no longer dictate the direction and shape of things, where lifeless programs are replaced by face to face fellowship and the life of the church simply flows through the day to day activities of its members.

If you follow my personal blog alexandercampbell.co.uk you'll know that I was in Romania recently and with a friend Steve Hill from Holland we found ourselves sharing about organic, simple, reproducible church stuff with some hungry people.

Romania has been through a political crisis recently. The President, Traian Basescu, was faced with a vote of no confidence in parliament as a result of standing up against the endemic corruption in the country. The powers behind the powers were not happy.

Steve spent several days with a group of bible school students after I had left and at the end of that time sent them out in pairs onto the streets of Cluj - a city with 11 universties and 100,000 students and not a single christian ministry reaching them with the Gospel.

On their way back to the bible school 2 of the students passed a hotel just a few doors down the street from the school. Noticing film crews and photographers outside they asked what was happening and were told that the President was meeting with his key supporters inside.

One of the students felt strongly impressed to go in and see if they could talk with the President (they had been praying for him each morning in the school). They made it into the lobby but were quickly surrounded by police and security guys and having explained their purpose were being 'politely' ushered out.

At that moment the doors on the far side of the lobby opened and out stepped the President; looking directly at the 2 students he called them across and asked them what they wanted. They explained that they were christians and would like to pray for him. He gladly asked them to do that, so one grabbed his hand the other put a hand on his shoulder and they prayed for him right there, then prophesied over him and asked him whether he knew that he was Gods man for this time in the nations history, "Yes" he replied, "I know that".

I will pour out my spirit in the last days... and your young men...

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