Posts from August 2018

Pastors Ponderings

  The question of who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’ of any group is usually decided by a few people in power.  It can be decided by a committee, a dictator or it can simply be because someone is born into it.  I am an Australian for two reasons, first I decided I wanted to be but then I had to submit the decision to those in power – the Australian government – to decide.  Advertisers also create desire…

Pastors Ponderings

During the year we host a Sunday service called ‘perspectives’ where people from CBBC share their understanding on a topic—this year it has been ‘what’s your perspective on church?’  It’s become a valued part of our year. Here’s Holly’s thoughts,   What is our role as the church, the body of Christ? Ephesians 4:11–13 says  “Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body…

Pastors Ponderings

Last Sunday we had 3 excellent speakers who shared their perspectives on Church.  Joan shared and her thoughts summarised the conclusions we’ve been coming to for the last couple of years as we’ve been studying Acts. She said;  “These past few days the word Oneness has been there every time I think about the meaning of Church. I wrote down just what I see. Church: a group of sinners, broken wounded brought together as one because of what Christ has done…

More Jottings From My Journal

A Moment in Time               I knelt to lace up the familiar little shoes for my two-year-old granddaughter. As I began, a strange thing happened and, like the change of seasons in a movie, I saw it. I was doing this very same thing but now it was her older sister smiling down at me and, no sooner had those memories flashed by, than it was their older brother, a concentrated look on his…

Pastors Ponderings

We’ve been working through a series of videos by N T Wright in young adults group recently and there are certain ideas and questions that keep coming back around.   Here’s a simple version for those of you who might be unfamiliar. The bible teaches us… God is so all-powerful and utterly good that the goodness of anything is measured by how well it aligns with Him. Evil is not a thing unto itself, but what is evil is only…