Our team had a great time in England. I've been to Britain several times but it has always been with Americans. This time we were immersed in British culture. We loved their sense of humor. If I added these six words to my vocabulary, I might pass as British: brilliant, lovely, fantastic, proper, cheerio, and really. As in, "that was a brilliant seminar, really lovely, just fantastic".

In our debriefing, I asked our team for their highlights. Bob Allums (Director of A Praying Life Ministries) said it for all of us, "British Christians responded so warmly to our material and seminars because they are living in a post-Christian world, a world that no longer has a memory about Jesus. Our material fits better in England than America because they engaged with that gap." It is the world that America is becoming.

The British immediately picked up on the style of our material as well. Jonathan Winfree, our African Director, who did The Person of Jesus track with me, was struck by how many in our track were ready to move ahead into more advanced training. They needed very little training in an interactive style.

Another surprise was Julie Courtney's Ruth track where she takes participants through lessons in Ruth. World Harvest Missionaries were struck by how well it fits Asian culture. That wasn't our intention in writing it, but we worked hard at capturing the original context of Ruth...which is Asian. So naturally it would fit an Asian culture.

The personal highlight for me was doing a two-hour talk to British pastors on "The Missing Image of Jesus." I was so busy prior to leaving for England, that the only time I had to prepare was when I woke up about 2am (7am London time) on our flight to London. I had about an hour and a half to sketch out my twenty-year ache on why the church is missing Jesus. I began by looking at why the church has lost its ability to look at Jesus, then eleven things the church is missing because it doesn't look at Jesus, and then eleven things it gains by looking at Jesus. I closed by suggesting three things we need to do: study him, image him, and enter him. I believe, by God's grace, that the Spirit made a strong case for seeing Jesus. It was part-lament, part-seminary lecture, and part a personal love story. I hope we can get this talk up on our website.

We also made some new friends. That is always a joy. The best complements made about our team came from the host of one of the two "Jesus Weekends", "I was also really challenged by the personal humility that all four of you exhibited as a team. None of you put on any airs and you all got really stuck in with chatting with people and had a genuine interest in them." In other words, they noticed Jesus.