Yesterday was a remarkable Pentecost in Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church in Glasgow.
I have only been present once before at a service where a congregation was hearing and then deciding whether to choose a new minister and then I was only a boy.
Yesterday, Sandyford Henderson heard Rev Jonathan de Groot preach as sole nominee. The atmosphere in the service was electric and the sense of the Holy Spirit's presence was almost palpable.
I am happy to go on record as saying that during the whole service I felt very strongly that the sole nominee was indeed the person God wanted for our congregation, and afterwards speaking to a few others, I wasn't alone in this.
The fact that the vote after the service, by secret ballot, was unanimous in favour of Jonathan's election as our new minister is testimony, I think, to the true unity that only the Holy Spirit can bring to the body of Christ.
There are a number of procedural hurdles to cross in both presbyteries, but God willing, we will have a new minister at Sandyford by late summer/early autumn and the long vacancy, which has lasted since Easter 2011, will be over.
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