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BEING GOOD NEWS

Being ‘Good News’ is what the Church should be about!  In the current edition of the Chichester Diocesan Magazine, in an article about the 6:19 Trust which exists to help churches make a far bigger impact than at present, Simon Allaby in response to the question “What is the future of the Church?” writes:-

“As has always been the case, the Church will grow where it is real and relevant and authentic, where people see the love, holiness and power of Christ changing lives. Where it isn’t, it will die. The local church should be like the corner shop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a foretaste of something unimaginably wonderful, where heaven and earth meet. A Church community should be characterised by extravagant love, the pursuit of holiness and a demonstration of the Spirit’s power.”

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Being ‘Good News’ is what Christians should be about!  St Paul in chapter 12 of his letter to the Romans says “Place your life before God”  he then goes on to say:

“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life, your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life, and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity.”

(from ‘The Message’ The New Testament in contemporary language.)

John Fletcher