A Different World

On Sunday we continued with our sermon series - the church.

Jesus in Matthew 16:13-19 gives the church (all who confess Him as Lord and Saviour) the authority to do things in His name.

Authority in this sense is "specialised knowledge."

Now imagine the church full of people who have knowledge of God touching the world!

The world would surely be a different place!

We Are the Body!

On Sunday, as part of our sermon series on the church, we spoke about THE BODY- 1 Corinthians 12:12-27.

Three things emerged:



- We, Christan's who confess Jesus Lord and Saviour, are the body (Ephesians 4:15)



- The body has many members with different gifts, ministries and activities (Romans 12;4-5)



- Each member must do their part (Ephesians 4:16)



So when all three come together, the church fulfils it's divine purpose to be God's hand and feet in the world.



Awesome!

The Church - Our Head

In the lead up to the commencement of our new church building, Sunday's sharing was very much around God's purpose for bringing the church into being. This will be a four week sermon series.

So on Sunday we dealt with the Head of the church - Christ.

Three things emerged:

- God appointed Jesus as the head of the church - Ephesians 1:22-23

- As such the church comes under His control and will - Mark 14:35-36

- As members of His body we need to receive Him as both Saviour: - John 3:16 & Lord - John 13:6-9

Next week we'll deal with The Church - The Body.

Animal Blessing

At North Rand we take the environment seriously.



This is evident in the way in which we have designed our new church building, we run an environmental course and once a year, have an animal blessings service where our children from Children's Church bring photo's of their pets and we bless them.

At the same time,we spend some time on understanding God's plan for His creation.

This Sunday we spoke from Genesis 6 and 9.



Take some time and read these passages, you may be delightfully surprised.