28th March 2010

Palm Sunday all age talk from Georgina involving a good donkey joke and a reminder of both the comfort and danger of crowds

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21st March 2010

Jane spoke from Paul's letter to the Ephesians (Chpt 2:20 -3:11). Intrinsic to God's wise planning for a redeemed humanity is the weaving together of a multicoloured, multi racial, multi cultural peoples as a piebald and beautiful tapestry – God's new community.

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14th March 2010

Rebecca spoke about “giving up or selling out.” Drawing the distinction in our imitation of Christ that it is not so much giving up certain things but surrendering everything and being obedient to God. That in our giving authority to God it is based on the confidence and trust in God's love for us.

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7th March 2010

Jane spoke to the parable of Jesus in Luke 14:25-33 concerning what Jesus taught about counting the cost before you build. How do we draw up the “cost benefit analysis” of the real cost of true discipleship when the entry fee is nothing but life membership is everything ? In this summons to put Jesus as pre pre-eminent in all our relationships is also to be aware of the excuses people make as illustrated in the Great Banquet invitation of Luke 14:15 to 24.

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28th February 2010

Geoff summarized the journey to date for the first two months as we reach the half way stage as regards the Building part of BOB. He then looked at Jesus teaching on prayer in Matthew 6;5-15 in the context of living stones and the need, role and place of forgiveness in building “ God's new community”

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21st February

Georgina continued the theme of Building Outreach and Belonging, she speaks of the Nehemiah and focuses on the gates around the city.

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14th February 2010

Jane spoke to 1 Peter 1 & 2;1-10 getting rid of the stuff that contaminates the building using the challenges facing the building of the Olympics in ground preparation as an illustration. The talk identified those things from the text that harm others and moving to actively decontaminating our relationships and to then choosing what nourishes and builds up.

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