God loves us and accepts us as we are. He also believes that being in relationship with Him and being more like His Son, Jesus, is the best thing for us. We all change as the years go on – we get older and wiser. We believe that we are also called to be transformed – we are called to be more like Jesus as the years go on, with the help of the Holy Spirit. This can happen in lots of ways: through reading the bible, prayer, following Jesus in all that we do, through facing tough situations and relying on God in the middle of them. (Like other things in the world, we change through internal thoughts and wrestling but also through external forces that can have positive and negative effects.) Life changes, and we will grow and develop our thinking through both internal wrestling and external experiences which may have both positive and negative effect. But we believe that God, through the Holy Spirit, is continually transforming us for our good.
Life operates on a deal-breaker basis. If I make dinner, Matthew does the washing up. If you don’t pay your TV licence, that man from the ad will be knocking at your door. If you murder someone, you go to prison. If you do something wrong, you get your due punishment. That’s the deal that […]
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Over the past two years we have been exploring the ways we ‘do’ church and dreaming and asking God what’s next. Our beginnings go back to a disco in 1998 where a group of ordinary inexperienced people came together with a heart to meet with people who weren’t in church, a heart to share Gods […]
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‘Hold firmly to the trustworthy message … so that (you) can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.’ (Titus 1:9) My first reaction to this is that it sounds quite confrontational. I like to know what I believe, and have confidence in it, but I also like hearing and playing with […]
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