Crawley Gatwick Church of Christ

Alec looks at Joseph as an example of how we should forgive people

This week Mike talks about how we should follow Jesus’ example of caring for others.

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Given that it was Fathers’ day, and following on from last week, Stan looks at the reverence that we should show to our Father in Heaven.

Why go to church? This week we had Stan visiting from the USA. He talked about the purpose of meeting together. Stan and his family were among founding members of our congregation, so it was great to get to see them again.

This week Mark talks about the importance of prayer and some practicalities of how to make prayer a bigger part of your life so that you can build a closer relationship with God.

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Visiting speaker Mark Swartz talks about the letters to the churches in Revelations 2 and 3. I this talk, he looked particularly at the first letter (to the church in Ephesus) and the final letter (to the church in Laodicea). He looked at the recurring themes of God saying that He KNOWS our ways and that He demands repentance whist wanting to have a meaningful loving relationship with us.

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Visiting speaker Mark Swartz talks about the approach he uses when studying with people who come to The Vineyard in Cape Town, South Africa. The approach involves demonstrating how all the issues and pressures that people face take their focus away from Jesus, and that the solution is not to try to fix the symptoms but rather to strengthen and build the relationship with Jesus.

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This weekend we are very blessed to have Mark and Flora Swartz visiting us. We have been able to provide some financial to Mark and Flora’s work in Cape Town, South Africa at “The Vineyard”, a simple ministry that provides for the needs of many poor and struggling people in that city. This video is from an informal presentation that Mark did that contrasted the beauty of the surroundings with the impact of poverty, alcohol and drugs on the lives of some of the people in the midst of that beauty. Mark also spoke about some of the Biblical principles that motivate and encourage them in their work. Unfortunately our technology failed us before the end of his presentation (the camcorder battery went flat!), but we managed to capture most of what he said!

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Alec talks about the heart and the importance of allowing Jesus to live in our hearts and shine out of our hearts.

Paul tells the Corinthians that he looked “not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor 4:18) – this week Mark asks whether the way we live our lives would be affected (in the way Paul\’s life was) if we too spent more time “seeing” the unseen rather than being distracted by the day to day physical (temporary) things around us. In particular, Mark looks at the impact that “living by faith, not sight” had on Paul\’s attitudes to evangelism and suffering.

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