Letter to Jewish Exiles in Babylon (598 BC)
Abandoned by God?
Can we really change in 2010? • Don’t despair ! There is hope (v 11).
God’s gracious plan – Christ (33: 15) “. . . I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah (31: 31). . . For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more (31: 34). . . I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people (31: 33)
Can we really change in 2010? • Don’t despair ! There is hope (v 11) • You are the hope of the city (v 7)
Seek the Shalom of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Jeremiah 29: 7
“Mission is putting love where love is not. ” St John of the cross
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“Seek the shalom of the city to which I have carried you into exile. ” Jeremiah 29: 7
“Seek the shalom of the city to which I have carried you into exile. ” Jeremiah 29: 7
Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury There is inbuilt into human beings a dangerous taste for unreality. Idols promise much but deliver little. Jim Wallis
Can we really change in 2010? • Don’t despair ! There is hope (v 11) • You are the hope of the city (v 7) • Seeking God’s transformation ( v 12 -13)
Those who cling to worthless idols Jonah 2: 7 -8 Forfeit the grace that could be theirs
2009 – the challenge “I believe that God is calling His church here in Billericay to step forward and be counted, to go for a substantial increase in personal commitment and in service built on the foundation of our relationship with Jesus. (1) A challenge to self-examination and repentance (2) A challenge to put service about self
2010 – pastoral strategy (1) Helping you to find freedom in Christ. (2) Helping you to rediscover your first love. (3) Helping you to be a whole life disciple. Shalom in the church. . . Shalom in the city.
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