Life In The Body The outline: 1) The Body and ourselves. a) No Lone Rangers. b) Compared with the best. c) Humility. 2) The Body and others. a) Unity. b) Diversity. c) Mutuality. 3) The Body and our gifts. a) We all have gifts. b) They are not for ourselves. c) They meet needs in …
Living Sacrifices Read Romans 12: 1-2. Chapters one to eleven explain God’s great mercy in His saving us by justification by grace through faith. Paul now goes on to explain how the saved should respond. • What is our motivation for Christian living? (Verse 1) • What is the force of Paul’s instruction in verse …
The following is published in the October edition of our Church magazine Connexions. I’ve been meaning to put something into print explaining the logic and structure of our worship services. This is my starting point, I’ll think about it and revise it a bit in the future. I have found the brief books ‘Reformed Worship: …
Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, authors of ‘Why We’re Not Emergent’, reunite to produce ‘Why We Love The Church’, which is subtitled ‘In Praise Of Institutions And Organised Religion’. Having pointed out the departures from biblical Christianity which are present in the ‘Emergent’ movement, DeYoung and Kluck set themselves the task of positively outlining a …
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