Significant Signposts: Looking Forward
Like individuals, churches have personalities formed by gifting, calling and experience.
As we look ahead, we need to ensure that we move in line with the community that God has called us to be.
Like individuals, churches have personalities formed by gifting, calling and experience.
As we look ahead, we need to ensure that we move in line with the community that God has called us to be.
Salford Elim Church has a history but it also has an inheritance. There are things in our history that shaped us, and that should still shape us as we move into the future.
Exploring them will feed our faith.
A look back at the previous month, and a look forward to what’s coming up.
Do our lives look any different to those around us? What difference does the gospel make to our lives?
Listen or watch back to our Pentecost Sunday joint service with St James’ congregation.
Self-centredness and self-entitlement are ugly things. Like Jonah, we can easily care more about our own comfort than the salvation of others. We need God to give us his heart for the world.
In the middle of a crisis, most people will try praying. It took being swallowed by a fish for Jonah to finally pray to his God and to remember salvation is found in him alone.
A look back at the previous month, and a look forward to what’s coming up.
This is the word that earliest Christians would repeat to one another – a cry that Jesus would come quickly. That history would be resolved. That all would be well. It’s a good prayer!
The world has too many evil regimes. Too many people are oppressed. Too many suffer at the hands of the powerful. How will this be brought to an end by a rider on a white horse?
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