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A spectacular evening celebrating the wonder of Christmas as we sang carols by candlelight and shared stories of lives impacted by God during 2018. The whole event is captured for you, about 1 hour long!
In our final ‘Paradox’ talk, Nick explores how God came to earth in the flesh of Jesus Christ, for all around him to see and hear – and yet, for so many people the revelation of Jesus remains hidden. God is available for all to see – but not all see God as available. Will you and I have ‘ears to hear’ and ‘eyes to see’, particularly at Christmas time?
Nick and Marjorie look at what it means as a follower of Jesus to walk out your life with integrity as a “new creation” in our current culture. Unpacking the reality that our identity will be built on one of two realities - knowing that we are deeply loved or longing to be loved and proving you are lovable.
Duncan explores the truth that Jesus loves us, and consequently loves us too much to not see us change to be like Him.
Nick considers the tension between life and death. Talking from his personal experiences and using the experience of Jesus, he takes us through what it means to move from death to life right now, leaving behind our sinful nature towards a spirit filled life. He uses the story of Lazarus from the Bible, encouraging us to hear the call of Jesus, as well as referencing Romans 8 to encourage us in our personal journey of growth as Christians.
We didn’t “find God” - He always initiates and we respond. Marjorie looks at the balance between “receiving” and “giving” in our Christian walk. God sets us up with opportunities to mature from being babies in the faith; to children; to adolescents; to trusted sons and daughters.
Remembrance Sunday 2018 marking 100 years since the WW1 armistice. Nick Allan explores the paradox of the gospel describing Christians as “more than conquerors” yet we live in societal and personal pain and suffering in so many different ways. How do we hold these tensions well as followers of Jesus?
Nick explores the essential reality for all Christians to engage with both the Word of God and the Spirit of God, in the world. Debunking unhelpful caricatures and encouraging us to a radical middle ground, Nick encouraged us not to ‘dry up’ or ‘burn up’ but ‘grow up’ in God.
Ruth and Tim explore how God wants to know and meet us as both a group of individuals, and an individual group. Our personal relationship with God really matters, and so does our relationship to the church universal. How much have I made my relationship with Jesus just about ME, and lost sight of my part in the wider body of Christ?
Toby explores the early church and their pattern of being gathered and scattered. He focuses on Acts 2 and links this to the patterns of historical revivals.
Marjorie explores our identity as citizens of heaven, yet living in flesh and blood. Marjorie uses the three chairs of identity as a helpful tool for walking this out.
Duncan explains Jesus Christ the crucified God, focusing on the two thieves who hung with Him and the power of salvation. Why the cross is so powerful and why we should choose to follow Jesus.
Duncan Smith, President of Catch the Fire World, visited us and spoke about God’s economy: what generosity with our finances & resources can really look like (incl. Luke 16). His challenge was to not to consider oneself generous until we are already returning to God what’s due to Him and sowing into other people’s opportunities.
Toby explores the paradox of God providing yet so many in our nation live in lack. What are God’s solutions? How can we bring transformation through what we value and prophetically live and speak?
Nick focusing on Acts explores our call as followers of Jesus to tell and share who he is to every person, culture and country.
Duncan speaks on the paradox of ‘wait’ and ‘go’. Jesus calls us to both. Going without prayerful waiting leads to powerless action. Attentive waiting will always lead to going, and then we can expect the ‘going’ to bear much fruit.
We asked some of the team at The Well what they were excited about as we enter autumn 2018.
Continuing our paradox series, Marjorie introduces us to a God with a pure holy heart who rolls up His sleeves and gets His hands dirty amongst humanity. In Matthew 9:9-13 Jesus challenged those who envisaged salvation by separation, because He models salvation by association.
In our series on paradox, Nick tackles the biblical portrayal of a God of both judgement and a God of mercy. How do we navigate the middle ground, and how can we ourselves lilve merciful lives?
Marjorie introduces the theme of paradox and apparent tensions throughout the scriptures between points of view. She focuses on identity. We are all unique yet before the cross we are all the same. We are ‘saints with a sin problem’.
