Entries by Jodie McNeill

Moore is coming!

We are thrilled to welcome a team of fourteen students and two chaplains from Moore Theological College from this Sunday 26th March to Sunday 2nd April. The ‘mission week’ is an integral part of the training of all the students as they prepare to be ministers in churches and other contexts locally and across the […]

The Big Six

At our AGM this week I shared six, draft strategies to help our church pray to our sovereign Lord, equip people for ministry, and proclaim Christ faithfully, so that each person in our village, valley and region might know how to follow Jesus and why it matters. Firstly, we want to increase our prayerfulness by […]

Divine Hospitality

In her book, ‘The gospel comes with a house key,’ Rosaria Butterfield shares how she became a Christian through the hospitality of an older Christian couple who opened their home, shared their lives, and showed her Jesus.  She was unchurched and hostile to Christians, but God used that hospitality to lead her to Christ. Hospitality […]

Relational Evangelism

Relational evangelism is communicating the gospel of the crucified and risen Lord Jesus Christ in the context of person-to-person relationships.  All Christians are in relationships, with God and with other people, both believers, and those on the journey to faith. The Bible identifies Christians to be Ambassadors of Christ, such as in 2 Corinthians 5:17-21. […]

1 Corinthians: A Loving Church – 14: Living and Leaving – 1 Corinthians 7:10-24 – Jodie McNeill – 26 February 2023

“I hate divorce!” Everybody has been ________ by divorce Our world believes _______ is worse than divorce Divorce is _______ and complicated Singleness is ____, but marriage is still fine Paul refers to Jesus’ ________ on marriage Marriage is a bond that is ______ by unfaithfulness Divorce is too _____ to embrace lightly They needed […]

Remember the LORD

It’s 25 years since I became a father, and it’s 25 years since Colin released his ‘Remember The Lord’ album. These two events intersected in so many ways, for this album became the soundtrack to the early years of my Christian parenting. We loved Colin’s energy and fun, but we especially valued the way he […]