When the fellowship becomes the sermon
posted: 16 Mar 2011 comments: 2category:
There is a great buzz around the church even although the weather is cold and the forecast is more rain this week. I've been encouraged hearing about at least half a dozen people of all ages finding a voice to openly profess their faith. In addition Sanctuary First turned out to be a great success last Sunday evening. The change of time for the evening services seems to have struck a chord especially with people with young families. We had around 50 at church last...
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Relevance is surely another word that makes the church sticky. For too long the impression that many people get is that the church is no longer relevant to their everyday lives. For a start most of our buildings are only open during limited periods in the week. The thing is that many of them are situated in really prominent positions. People walk past them every day. However the building and its facade is often screaming. Keep out! I sometimes wonder if those of us who...
Last week at the evening service I was talking about the centrality of praise and adoration in the life of the Christian. I wasn't so much talking about singing praise songs or listening to your favourite praise album. I tried to describe it as a sense of well being. It's knowing all will be well when you have no evidence to substantiate the feeling. It is this sense of "well being" that praise nurtures in a person that makes the Christian an attractive person...