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Worship:
encourage Christian worship for everyone
Teach:
to help people develop their Christian faith, life and service
Share:
to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with everyone by word and example
March letter
Lent is a time to remember that Jesus came to turn things around and upside down.
The people of Israel believed that prosperity and wealth was a sign of God's blessing on them, and Jesus told them it was harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than a camel to go through the eye of a needle. They believed that the places of honour and importance at banquets and feasts were signs of their righteousness, and Jesus told them that the poor and lowly would be exalted and put first in the kingdom.
Are there things in our own lives that need shaking up and turning around? Are there enemies we need to forgive, wrongs that we need to put right, situations where we need to act differently, to show love and not anger?
Lent gives us time to think about these things and to respond to the call of Jesus, 'Repent for the kingdom of God is near'.
Repentance is not a fashionable word, yet when we think of it as a turning around of our minds and our lives, a turning upside down of our prejudices and fears, a turning back to God and God's love, it is the most wonderful and liberating word in the world.
Every blessing.
Revd Jade Bath
