Peter Dainty's powerful words will certainly make sparks fly with poems for public worship which are both shocking and illuminating.

Just as electricity releases amazing energy which lights up our lives, so the Gospel of Jesus Christ - his life, teaching, his passion and death, resurrection and living Spirit - provides us with spiritual energy.

But electricity can be dangerous and we need to approach it with respect - and similarly the Gospel which illuminates and enables us also shocks when it challenges our values, lifestyles and unjust systems.

The Electric Gospel poems are arranged under the main headings of the Church's year, with a final section containing poems and prayers for more general use.