23rd March 2014 

 Jesus and the prophets: today’s reading Revelation 2: 18-29.

The Spirit of Jesus brings a message to the Thyatira church.

Thyatira and the church there are known to Jesus and he moves both in and around the city and the church. The city is small does this mean that the church is small?  Ford fiesta types of church through to  Mercedes style types of churches?  A city of trade and commerce & many trade guilds. The challenges faced by the church were how to behave in the work place, in the guilds. There was a division in the church on behaviour lines and  there were the “rest” and the “others”.  Once again the issue of what diversity can be celebrated and what cannot be tolerated rears its head. The issues that Jesus raises which call for repentance (change of mind, heart and action) are grouped around sexual immorality and also idolatry. What does this mean for us a church situated in London and rich in diversity but also an “anything goes” mentality? How do we read our Bibles? 

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