A Better Story: It’s Simpler Than You Fear
The gospel message is simple but so significant to our lives when fully grasped.
What impact can the gospel message have on your life today?
The gospel message is simple but so significant to our lives when fully grasped.
What impact can the gospel message have on your life today?
Jesus is the centre of the universe, and only in him does everything hold together. He should be the centre of our lives too.
Sunday was the beginning of our new sermon series titled ‘A Better Story’, where we began exploring the letter to the Colossians.
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.
After the whole city of Nineveh repented, you would have thought Jonah would have been ecstatic – it was an incredibly successful street outreach!
However, his self-righteous prayer shows just how much he still had to learn about the mercy of God. We may be the means of God’s mission, but we must also heed the message for ourselves.
Despite our disobedience, God refuses to give up on us – his mission is far too important. Through Jonah, God used a message of judgement to change a whole city. As we are obedient to God’s missional call, we may well be surprised by how people respond.
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.
Like Jonah, we often try in vain to run from God’s call to mission, but he will use any means necessary to get our attention and to expose our fears and prejudices: sometimes storms, sometimes the very people we are trying so hard to avoid.
A celebration of salvation. We joined together and heard from different voices sharing what God has done in their lives, and we remembered the significance of the resurrection for us all.
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