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The Vine is a dynamic community of faith called to build the family of God, transforming lives, cities and societies by the intimate presence of Jesus Christ.
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The Jesus of our own making, the Messiah who looks and feels like the one we need him to look and feel like. And when Jesus comes along and reveals to us something about his character or his nature or his purposes or his desires that we had not previously encountered or accepted or made room for in our hearts,
What lies beneath this famous Christmas story is one of the most common and universal human struggles all of us potentially wrestle with on a daily basis. Beyond the shame and stigma Mary’s pregnancy brought, what other reasons do you think caused the entire town of Bethlehem to shun them completely?
If we give in to doubt, it can drive a wedge between us and God. When doubt God’s love for us, we no longer want to draw near to him. When we doubt God’s plans and purposes for us, we no longer trust him.
A faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenceless against either the experience of tragedy or the questions of sceptice.
One of the most public ways you will reveal the gospel to the world around you will be in how you steward the resources you have in your life. Whether it might be your time, your finances, your gifts, your energy – what you do with what you have been given will always reveal the values and the commitments you hold most dear.
“Over these years, as the internet has developed and our social media platforms have gotten increasingly sophisticated, the power and ability we have to be a totally different person behind a screen and keyboard has only increased, this has had a terrible impact on our humanity and our relationships.
Personal gain and death to self are terrible mixers. And it is a tension – because on the one side surely there is nothing inherently wrong with a desire to achieve in life, to do something good in the world, to work hard and be successful and make something of your life.
The first thing that stands out that we must see is that before Paul tells us what to do, he tells us what NOT to do. You know there is a deep wisdom in omission. So many of us, in so many areas of our lives, want to make it better and we think the best way to do this is to add this and add that. I’d say what we add is just as important as what we leave omit.
The church there was deeply imbedded in the very capital and center of the power structure of the whole of the Greco-Roman Empire. The whole city was a demonstration and declaration of Roman authority, power and dominance.
Today we will look at our work and faith from a different perspective, on how our faith shape us to approach and do our actual work.
We are clearly living in a time that for many of us is unprecedented when it comes to turmoil, change, pressure and impact. And I think for all of us as Christians, this kind of time we are living in asks of us a central and significant question – what should we do as Christians when the world has gone crazy?
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Patience and Prayer
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.
The tongue can create a reality in which the worst of our human choices become true.
Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
God has designed it that in order for humans totruly flourish we must operate out of a place of rest and not into a place of rest.
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