A Message

Proper 5, Environment Sunday  Theme:                “Two irreconcilable ways – Jesus and Evil” Greeting Leader                   Come and worship the Creator, who gently cares for the land. Response             Come and worship Jesus who calms the waters. Leader                   Come and worship the Spirit who blows through the trees. Response             Come and worship God the source of life Hymn                     264 Introductory  Sentence   Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord yo...

The church receives it’s names from the greek word ecclesia, which means assembly. An assembly of believers who are the body of Christ. If the believers are the body, Christ is the head. Hence the church is led by Christ, follows Christ, imitates Christ, possesses the attitude of Christ, it breathes Christ and lives Christ. This body of Christ is driven by the vision and mission that Christ the head has for his church. The best example we have of the body of Christ is in the book of Acts. A church that lived Christ; a radical group of people, living contrary to the ways and the culture of the world. Yet, were drawing people to it daily. It was a church that gave importance to teaching, prayer, worship and the breaking of bread. It was a church which shared, sacrificed and was open to all. It was a group of people who had committed themselves to living as Jesus lived on this earth. A church, Christians, who had fixed their eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of faith (Heb 12:...