"Trusting God's Promise"

Andrew - brings people to Jesus - Brother, boy, Greeks, - Scotland, Russia - we are named for him, we bring honour to that naming when we bring people to Jesus.

Jesus is raised up - on a cross of suffering, to heaven in glory. Our worship, daily lives, church life must reflect the pain and the hope, the despair and the joy, dark and the light - it will be the reality of individual lives - learn to live with hope.

Future is unknown - we must trust in the light, and that light is Jesus. Nouwen tells a story from a conversation with a trapeze artist So let us stretch out our arms and hands and trust, trust, trust.
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In the meeting that followed ...

 David Bosch concludes that Mission "is the good news of God’s love, incarnated in the witness of a community, for the sake of the world"

How does our church life tell the good news of God's love?

In what ways are we incarnated (living, involved) in the witness of a community?

How much of our church life is "for the sake of the world"?