Meals as Mission - “working with God and others to recognise and grow God’s Kingdom here and now”
What is a missional meal? It starts with an invitation; starts with accepting an invitation, or giving an invitation.
What are these meals? They’re meals that operate in the flow of generosity; they’re not that keeping score, they’re not that repayment, they’re that blessing.- Dave Wiggins
"Does every one of us have equal worth and value?
Absolutely.
But how many of us actually act that way?"
- Kris Gilbert unpacks what it means to 'walk humbly' according to Micah 6:8.
*please excuse the rough recording, taken from our live stream!
“You don’t understand mercy until you understand what you have been forgiven from”
- Ian Waddington explores what 'loving mercy' means in Micah 6:8
Robin Knox starts off our series with 'Seek Justice'
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“We are reminded that we are loved by God and because of that we also ought to love one another - from 1 John. So what has love got to do with justice? Well everything of course - because justice is what God’s love looks like in public” - Phil Togwell
“Which one of us can face the reality of our sins, if we’re not first of all assured of Christ’s love for us, made tangible in the love from others” - it’s in knowing him that we can know ourselves... that’s why the Church’s expressed disapproval of sin always needs to be in the context of acceptance of the people concerned.”
- Ian Waddington
“It’s not about the food, because it isn’t. It’s actually about our identity as the people of God, and our mission as the people of God... Jesus embodies living in intimate relationships with all kinds of people - the socially respectable and the non-respectable. His friends, and His enemies. And He treated them all with respect even if they did not ‘deserve’ it. And we are called to do that…” - Tony Plews
“When we talk about how we want to live out the mission of Jesus, one of the things that we think about is how can we effectively do that in our natural rhythms of life. And if all of us have to eat, if all of us are around the table from time to time, we need to be thinking about as followers of Jesus, how we can use that time to be faithful to the mission that he has called us to do.”
- Kris Gilbert
Belong > Believe > Become >
“The vision for Thrive is that our children will be connected and that they will have relationship with significant adults outside of their programme. That they will know belonging. Not just for them, that they would grow to have a life long faith, but that all of us would grow to a life of long and full faith. That’s the dream."
- Angie Wiggins
“God isn’t looking for the educated, the qualified, the gifted;
He is looking for the available”
- Rod Edwards
“Some days it feels as if the equipping either just isn’t working or it’s never ending and we’ll never ever get anywhere - so we listen to Paul again speaking from Philippians 1:6 - ‘…and I am certain that God who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it’s finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns’ …”
- Robin Knox
We started with an imaginative reading from Mark 1: 16-20 - have a read and then listen to the message!