June 27, 2010
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Venue: Church Office
Monthly Archive for May, 2010
May 30, 2010
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
This will be the first of our monthly open communion meetings in the church office
July 25, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Speaker: Sean Clark
Worship Leader: Natalie Clark
Subject: The Church & The Coming Kingdom
July 18, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Speaker & Worship Leader: Richard Bradbury
Subject: The Church as Sacrament and Sign
July 11, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Worship Leader: Tina Grant
Speaker: Richard Bradbury
Subject: The Church as God’s Pilgrim People
Questions for Homegroups:
1. What do you think of the idea of the Church as a Pilgrim People?
2. How would you feel if, like Abraham, God called you to go on a journey, the destination of which you did not know?
3. Are you more excited by the prospect of the journey or of the destination?
4. ‘It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end’. Discuss.
5. ‘It is not so much what God does through you but what God does in you that counts’. Discuss.
July 4, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Speaker: Sean Clark
Worship Leader: Ali Crompton
Subject: The Church & Mission
Questions for Homegroups:
1. Whose responsibility is it to share the gospel?
2. What does it mean ‘to share the gospel’?
3. How can we be more effective as a church in sharing the gospel?
4. What gets in the way of sharing the gospel – individually and collectively?
5. What one thing can each of us do to be more effective?
June 27, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Worship Leader: Natalie Clark
Speaker: Richard Bradbury
Subject: Kingdom Ethics
Questions for homegroups:
1. What do you believe Jesus meant when he talked about bringing justice to the poor?
2. Considering how Jesus’ first sermon in Luke 4 was received in Nazereth, how do you think the same sermon would be received today?
3. Do you believe the issues of global poverty and ecological disaster are issues the church should be concerned about?
4. What is your personal response to these issues?
June 20, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Speaker & Worship Leader: Richard Bradbury
Subject: The Kingdom of God Revisited I
Questions for Homegroups:
1. Looking at Matthew 4:17 / Mark 1:14, consider what Jesus’ message meant to those who heard it.
2. Consider the signs of the kingdom in Luke 4:14-21. Compare this with the list in Isaiah 61:1-2. What do the omissions suggest?
3. From Matthew 12:28, what is the significance of the casting out of demons?
4. What does Acts 1:3-6 tell us about the mindset of the disciples?
5. If Jesus is now king, what does this suggest about the way I should live?
June 13, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Speaker: Visitor from Prison Ministries
Worship Leader: Tina Grant
There are no homegroup questions this week.
June 6, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Speaker: Richard Bradbury
Worship Leader: Ali Crompton
Subject: Worship as Giving
Questions for Homegroup:
1. Do you feel the most sympathy for Simon or the woman in Luke 7:36-50? Why?
2. Was Mary’s worship ‘over the top’ in John 12:1-8?
3. Was the worship demanded of Abraham by God reasonable in Genesis 22:9-19?
4. How do you feel about worship being an act of giving rather than just a song that is sung?
