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2017-7-27 – Transforming Worship – Adelaide SA
LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Bible 3
“instead of that picture of the Bible as a book held in the hands of a solitary reader alone in a room, have in your mind another kind of picture, one in which somebody is proclaiming God’s story to a gathering of diverse people – and all of them asking themselves, and asking one another, ‘How do we find ourselves in this? How are we going to be renewed together by this reading?’ Because when that happens, the Bible is an essential source, as well as a sign, of the Christian life”
Rowan Williams, Being Christian p.39
LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Bible 2
“…reading the Bible is about listening to God in Jesus – which is what Christians ought to be doing in all circumstances anyway. It is letting the Holy Spirit bring you inside the story of how God related to the ancient Israelites and the first Christian believers – letting the Holy Spirit bring you inside that story so that you recognize it as your story.”
Rowan Williams, Being Christian p.36
LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Bible 1
“…when you see a group of baptized people listening to the Bible in public worship, you realize that Bible-reading is an essential part of the Christian life because Christian life is a listening life. Christians are people who expect to be addressed by God.”
Rowan Williams, Being Christian p.21
MtE Update – August 11 2016
Friends,
the latest MtE Update
- Matthew and Miranda are presenting the Sugden Fellow Lecture at Queen’s College, Parkville, on Monday August 22, 7.00pm for 7.30pm (RSVP by August 19); the full details are here.
- The first Hotham Mission newsletter – the “Hotham Herald”, is available here.
- The moderator has circulated this letter regarding Synod budget cuts (staff reductions).
- There is a conference at the CTM in September on the relationship of church welfare agencies to the church itself. Some members of our congregation are attending, and others might be also interested; the details are here.
- Hotham Mission is running a special community screening of the documentary “Chasing Asylum”, which explores Australian asylum-seeker policy and its effects on those seeking asylum. For more details, the film trailer and the link to purchase tickets, please see the UCHM web site – tickets almost sold out!
- Our next study series has begun. If you’re keen to come but haven’t registered, details and registration page is here.
- As previously advised, the planned congregational meeting on our buildings and mission issues, set for August 21, has been re-scheduled this meeting for September 4, following worship. Papers for this should be available on two weeks beforehand.
MtE Update – August 5 2016
Friends,
the latest MtE Update
- The planned congregational meeting on our buildings and mission issues, set for August 21, has had to be postponed on account of delays in gathering the information the Church Council had hoped would be available for consideration at that meeting. Church Council has re-scheduled this meeting for September 4. We note that this date is Fathers’ Day but, on account of other limitations, it is the only feasible date for a meeting before October. The service on September 4 will be shorted and the meeting kept as tight as possible to enable as many congregational members as possible to participate. The purpose of this meeting will principally be to hear and discuss a progress report as a prelude to a planned “decision” meeting later in October.
- Hotham Mission is running a special community screening of the documentary “Chasing Asylum”, which explores Australian aslyum-seeker policy and its effects on those seeking asylum. For more details, the film trailer and the link to purchase tickets, please see the UCHM web site.
- Our next study series STARTS NEXT WEEK. If you’re keen to come but haven’t registered, details and registration page is here.
- For information on a forthcoming event on “The Churches’ Approach to Advocacy for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum”, see this post.
- The most recent Synod eNewsletter (August 2) is here.
Other things of potential interest:
The Churches’ Approach to Advocacy for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum
From: Jill Ruzbacky, Social Justice Officer, Justice & International Mission, Uniting Church VicTas Synod Commission for Mission:
Dear Friends,
Please see the flyer for The Churches’ Approach to Advocacy for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum: A Refugee and Migrant Sunday Forum that we’re running under the Victorian Council of Churches banner on Refugee and Migrant Sunday – Sunday 28th August.
We would very much appreciate your help in distributing it out to your networks wherever possible, and would love you to consider coming along!
There’s a Facebook event page here as well, which might also be helpful for promotions: https://www.facebook.com/events/1315359278475015/
RSVP’s are being taken via this website: http://bit.ly/VCCForum2016
Rev. Sharon Hollis our Moderator (UCA) is the keynote speaker.
LitBit Commentary – The Basis of Union on the Congregation
LitBit: The Congregation is the embodiment in one place of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, worshipping, witnessing and serving as a fellowship of the Spirit in Christ. Its members meet regularly to hear God’s Word, to celebrate the sacraments, to build one another up in love, to share in the wider responsibilities of the Church, and to serve the world.
The Basis of Union
MtE Update – July 28 2016
Friends,
the latest MtE Update
- This Sunday, July 31, we’ll have another hymn-learning session after worship for those who have time to stay and a desire to expand their repertoire!
- Hotham Mission is running a special community screening of the documentary “Chasing Asylum”, which explores Australian aslyum-seeker policy and its effects on those seeking asylum. We need a particular number of ticket purchases by August 4 (next week) for the screening to go ahead (the screening is on August 16); for more details, the film trailer and the link to purchase tickets, please see the UCHM web site.
- Our next study series will be in August, considering Rowan Williams’ great little book, Being Christian; details and registration page is here.
- For those who missed Bruce Barber’s Lenten studies last year, or want to hear them again, he is presenting that at South Melbourne UCA; details are here.