Sitting at the feet of Jesus

I read a book called ‘Sitting at the feet of Jesus’ that tells of the story of a three week conference in Australia set up to talk about that activity. It was a conference attended by ninety church leaders and several well known speakers were invited to address it. When the day came, all of the speakers were unavailable except the one who had said he would not address the conference as any sort of expert, but he would attend and participate in it. So the organisers went ahead with this huge speaker-less event hoping that God would respond and give them some guidance before the event began, but he didn’t. For three weeks the pastors, all busy leaders, met together and prayed and worshipped each day without any sense of direction – there were no speeches, no grand plans; they just met and prayed and talked. At the end, the speaker turned participant said it had changed his life. Where they might easily have endlessly discussed sitting at the feet of Jesus, what they had done was to do it for real.
I found this inspiring. I can’t imagine how those organisers managed to carry on with the event when it must have felt like it was falling apart. They must have really wondered whether they had misunderstood God’s intention, but God was looking at it differently and wanted more for their relationship with him than they had understood for themselves.