Welcome

Services are held weekly, starting at 10:30am.

Communion Services are held at 6:00pm on the 1st Sunday of each month, and at 10:30am on the 3rd Sunday. Special all-age family services are held regularly, check the calendar for details.

Creche and Sunday School are held each Sunday during the service, and refreshments are served afterwards.

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

John 4:7-12

Through the last term we have looked at 'Just Ten' that helped us look at how the Ten Commandments can be practically applied to our lifestyle today. We used scripture, Just Ten (J. John) and other source materials to help us explore our discipleship by loving God and loving others because God first loved us.

This quarter we are going to continue to develop this theme of loving discipleship as we look at it from 1 John and Acts in the scriptures.

Firstly we are going to explore the Letter of 1 John in looking at the themes of 'Living in God's love', 'Walking in God's light', 'Practising God's truth', and 'Sharing in God's victory'. I hope through exploring such themes we will together deepen our faithful response to a God who is love.

In the letter of 1 John we are reminded of God's creative nature that is infinite, personal, and who continues to love and sustain the creation and the created. The vastness of the cosmos with earth found spinning like a marble in amongst the planets of this solar system. The divine nature that created this planet with its beautiful array of blue ocean hues, incredible landscapes to explore, full of the biodiversity of animals and plants, all this perceived with our God-given senses.

As we reflect on God's nature we are reminded that our own lives are just a moment in the onward movement of time. Such movement of time through each moment is a call to fill each moment with a God-given love that needs to be shared in a loving community. A loving community that is found in the loving community of God as the three persons of the Trinity relate to one another.

This expression of the divine nature is an integration of the dynamic inter-relationship of love found in the persons of God. It is not a conditional love that depends on attractiveness or worthiness but agape. Agape or divine love that cannot be earned, it is not deserved it is utterly different. Agape is a love that is more than common grace, for it is self-sacrificing, a sacrifice that leads us to being born of God, knowing God and loving God.

Blessings,
Stuart