Church Vision Part Two
09 Oct 2009
Not only is our worship and preaching shaped by the Word of God, but every other area of church life is too, not least how we understand Christian community.
Our community is diverse in age, nationality and background, this is made possible by the storgos love of God, which brings together those who as C.S Lewis puts it, are 'most emphatically, even comically, not like each other". We long to be an increasingly more diverse community but are grateful to God for the measure of grace we have already received in this. We are also a community for the community. There is great need in our society and the local church needs to respond to this. At NCC we are being challenged to engage more with these needs and are launching various Social Action projects which we hope to give you more info about over the coming weeks.
Lastly Dave reminded us that we have a call to be a church for the nations. A privilege we have is that we have strong relationships with churches around the world, from Holland to Romania, from Zimbabwe to Dubai. We have been involved in training and sending many people to other nations to lead churches and join churches, what a joy this is! We recognise also that reaching nations needn't require us to jump on a plane and fly thousands of miles, on our doorstep we have people from every continent, either working in London or studying at University. We all therefore can play a role in reaching the nations by reaching neighbours, work colleagues, uni mates, by being faithful witnesses to the gospel.
We're not a perfect church, but we are a great church, a good one to join. If you didn't get a chance to hear these sermons then please jump over to our resources section and have a listen!
Tim
 
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