Ask Culture in Action: Andrew Burnham
I recently attended the Holy Spirit in the World Today conference hosted by St Paul’s Theological College, St. Mellitus and Holy Trinity Brompton, which I might post about later. Quite unexpectedly I ran into a now ‘grown-up’ member of a youth group that I used to oversee at Union Baptist Church. As I got over the usual shock that you get when you encounter people who you remember being smaller and younger and how old you feel now they are taller and all grown-up, the next shock was that he had the weekend before been ordained as a baptist minister.
Andrew Burnham, was one of the 20 odd young people baptised in 2001. Andrew was in hospital when I went to see him and in the course of the conversation I just asked ‘do you want to think about being baptised?’ It was this question, Andrew told me, that turned his life around and led him to be where he is now, leading and serving in Sutton-in-the-Elms Baptist Church. For me, encountering Andrew this weekend has been a huge encouragement, and has reminded me that I am quite clearly an Asker.
