Archive for September, 2006

Bulletin 24th September, 2006

5 years ago
by Lyndall Bailey in

A little late, but here at last.

Bulletin 24/09/06 (pdf, 760 KB)

Seize The Day!

5 years ago
by Lyndall Bailey in

A few years ago I attended a time share holiday unit presentation. The operators provided prizes, a sumptuous afternoon tea and a personal guided tour of the resort. At the end they made me an offer they didn’t think I could refuse. When I refused they made me a better offer. They kept improving the package until their “final offer” came with the line, “You must accept this and sign today”. I asked that if I walked away but came back tomorrow morning with the full payment in cash whether the deal would be off? Their reply was that the offer was for today only!

I walked and never went back. I still wonder if they would have turned me away the next day. God’s people of the Old Testament had the opportunity to enter the promised land. It was a one day only offer. They procrastinated and a whole generation wandered the desert for 40 years and missed out on receiving the fulfillment of God’s promises.

Sometimes God gives us great opportunities to minister into people’s lives. Let’s be a people who “SEIZE THE DAY”. Steve Irwin probably expected to be around for many more years but life is fragile. We never know when an opportunity will be someone’s last opportunity to accept Christ before their end.

Stephen Semenchuk

Bulletin 17th September, 2006

5 years ago
by Lyndall Bailey in

Find out what events are on in the coming week

Bulletin 17/09/06 (pdf, 735 KB)

Christian — Committed or Consumers

5 years ago
by Lyndall Bailey in

The consumer mentality of our society has the potential to undermine our values and revalue our relationships. If we assign value to ourselves and others based on the things we buy, then we risk consumerism becoming the framework we interpret everything else with.

We all know people whose identity is constructed by the clothes they wear, the vehicle they drive, the music they listen to on their ipod. There is real danger that we will approach Christianity as a brand not a worldview. We demote Jesus from “LORD” to “label”. Its practice in our life is just one more thing we consume.

Rather than be committed to strong relationships with a church family and seek to be involved personally and financially in its mission, the danger is that Christians will become church shoppers. We will base our membership on what we like rather than what we believe, on what we get rather than what we give. Church is not something we go to, its something we are.

Stephen Semenchuk

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