15th November 2009

Jane spoke to Paul’s encounter with the citizens of Athen’s in Act 17:16-34 and highlighting the challenges and opportunities presented by pluralism in society. The world outside of our front door has changed and is changing but by using Paul’s example it shows the importance of dialogue, reasoned argument and encounter which give us clues to our missionary task.

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8th November 2009

The second in our series on “Called to the world” as part of the season looking at the foot steps of Jesus. The talk examines the battle for hearts and minds of people. The senior Pastor Jane Thorington-Hassell begins by looking at John 20:19-23 and the fact that Jesus sends us out into harms way like sheep amongst wolves. In the face of different teachings and ideologies battling for allegiance the talk looks at 2 Cor 10:1-5 to compare and contrast the tactics the world uses to that expected of Christians linked to truth, prayer, faith and the Holy Spirit using gentleness and kindness.

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1st November 2009

Georgina began the series of talks this month in looking at being “called to the world” starting with John 3 :16 ( called to love the world) via John 15 ( not to be of the world) and ending up with Matthew 5 ( having an impact/engaging with the world).

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18th October 2009

Georgina spoke on this month's theme of Called to Discipleship, focusing on the Great Commission.

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11th Oct 09

Called to make Disciples.Jane spoke on 1 Thessalonians 2:1-13 sharing our lives with others and not just the Gospel of God


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4th October 2009

Rev Pat Took, Team leader for the London Baptist Association, began this months series of talks based around being called to make disciples by looking at the incident in Luke 5 verses 1 to11 at the calling of Peter in his workplace. Pat gave three clues from the story as how best to meet the challenge of calling people to faith and commitment.

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27th Sept 09

The last in this months talk on spiritual warfare Rebecca Suknenko looks at a series of biblical case studies of examples of prayer, trust, obedience. Then linking this to the authority invested in Jesus as a basis for our own response in challenging the powers present in today’s world.

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