I offered on Sunday to email my ten steps for resolving disputes between “brothers” to anyone interested. quite a few people have taken me up on the offer so to make them more easily available, here they are. I hope that many will find them helpful.
If you have a dispute with a Christian brother or [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians by Pete Thompson we continue to wrestle with the theme of judgment. In chapter 5 Paul had explained the importance of judging sin within the church and withholding judgment on outsiders. This week, in 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 Paul rebukes the church for their very Corinthian habit of taking [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 by Steve Cree, we see the real tragedy of a divided church that has forgotten the cross of Jesus. The same cross, that unites the church because it is our common salvation, is the cross that divides the world into saved and unsaved, as people accept or [...]

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Did you see the PM say sorry yesterday? I thought it was a pretty well-made speech, even better because he seemed to mean what he was saying. It was an important day - an important attempt to heal a complex divide.
I suspect, though, that our church, just like our community, is somewhat divided on the question [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 by Steve Cree, we hear Paul’s call for unity that inspired our series title for 1 Corinthians 1-4: ‘perfectly united’. Paul’s appeal to the deeply divided Corinthian church is that they be be “perfectly united in mind and thought”, as he points them to the cross of [...]

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