Coming up this Sunday 1st July 2018
This Sunday we continue our series ‘The Heart of Truth’ as Simon preaches on the topic ‘Free from slavery to the law’ from Romans chapter 7 verses 1 to 25.
This week we will have a special book review from one of our church members from a book that they have recently read.
During our services, we’ll have our weekly question and answer time, and Simon will be answering these questions:
- As there is only one God, why are there so many different religions?
- Why has no human ever seen God?
- In Exodus 10 when Moses asks for all the animals to go out to the festival, was he misleading Pharaoh? Or was it just a ruse to get everybody and everything out of Egypt for good?
Our youth group, Refuge, meets at 4pm in the Neighbourhood Centre, and then head over to join us for church. Kids’ Club and Andy’s Club meets at our 5pm evening service for their program, followed by a great dinner together for the whole family.
As always, come along and visit us at 10am or 5pm at 35 Fisher Street Oak Flats, or if you can’t make it in person, jump online at www.oakflats.tv to watch a livestream of our services.
See you at 10am or 5pm this Sunday, God willing!
Unity beyond the World Cup
The Soccer World Cup started last week and it has been amazing to see unity in Australia as we support our country in Russia.
There are people watching who love soccer, some who maybe only watch the World Cup and some who maybe only watch when Australia is playing. Either way, it is so much fun to see people in the shops, at work, or at church mutter away about how it has been going.
It is a truly beautiful unity. Yet as Christians this kind of unity should feel familiar. We are to be unified far beyond the feelings of unity Australia feels watching the Socceroos.
Jesus prays for “those who will believe in him…that they may be one as [He & the Father] are one…so that we may be brought to complete unity.” (John 17:20-23)
This unity shows the world that Jesus was sent by God and that God loves humanity.
This is the unity that we should strive for.
We need to be committed to each other because as the Apostle Paul says we all “form one body, and each member belongs to all the others” (Romans 12:5).
We belong to each other, so we need to act like it. Love your neighbour, pray for unity with those who you see at church, in your Bible Studies and throughout the week. And who knows, maybe you could even watch a Socceroos game together.
This radical unity will show the world that Jesus is God and that God loves us.
And perhaps one day the world will recognise and feel Christian unity in the same way Aussies are currently feeling it in the World Cup.
RAYNE ORANGE
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