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Instructions for mission

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A continuation of our ongoing series in Matthew of all that Jesus said and did.  Rosie Cunliffe speaks about text in Matthew 10:1-16.  God does not call the equipped, he equips the called.

Looking through the Cross (talk at 11am)

The Resurrection is a clarion call to the truth: life is God’s gift not until inevitable decay but for life in an eternal NewCreation. The price that God has paid for our salvation was through self-sacrifice but can only be redeemed by our own willingness to die to self. Resurrectional-life embodies & empowers the destiny of God’s people as divine-image-bearers from now and forever.

Mission Sunday

Ruth Wall Ruth the programme leader for All Nations’ en route and express courses speaks from Acts 16 about Paul’s mission as an epoch-making moment and the situation in the world today in a similar way.

A dead girl and a sick woman

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Here in these eight verses of Matthew’s account of the words and action of Jesus we find Jesus being interrupted, not once but twice. The first request is about as serious as it gets, the second in Jesus hierarchy of values just as much so. There is a very real dilemma here; well there might be if you or I were in the same situation. Two things come to mind. The first has to do with the authority that Jesus has and has given us, and the second, that God’s sovereignty is over time and the timing of these competing demands. That God is sovereign will result in glory to him even when from a human perspective it seems least likely.

The Calling of Matthew

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Jesus doesn’t just whisk Matthew away, as he had with Peter, James and John, the next we read is that Jesus is having dinner at Matthew’s house. We might guess who the guests might be —Matthew’s friends of course. As a tax collector he would have few friends. So here we are in Matthew’s house with his new rabbi not surprisingly there are tax collectors and sinners sitting down with Jesus and this growing band of his disciples.

Jesus heals a paralyzed man

In this remarkable account, Jesus dramatic ability to fully heal a paralysed man demonstrates his authority to forgive sins, something only God can do. Jesus Christ has this divine authority today – the ability to free us from the power, guilt and eternal consequences of our sin

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